Mark(s) + Day 21
Apr. 25th, 2011 09:47 pmSo, I'm a huge fan of Mark Does Stuff. Shocking, I know.
Okay, except for his Sherlock reviews, and that's only because "not interested in relationships = gay!" thing makes me ... annoyed. Sherlock is one of the only characters that the actor and to some degree the writers have explicitly identified as asexual. Do you know how many of those we have? Yeah, like two. It's one thing to see characters I personally interpret as ace portrayed (either in fic or meta) as sexual or even hypersexual. Irritating, but when they're all but explicitly asexual, it crosses over into -- extreme discomfort.
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Okay, except for his Sherlock reviews, and that's only because "not interested in relationships = gay!" thing makes me ... annoyed. Sherlock is one of the only characters that the actor and to some degree the writers have explicitly identified as asexual. Do you know how many of those we have? Yeah, like two. It's one thing to see characters I personally interpret as ace portrayed (either in fic or meta) as sexual or even hypersexual. Irritating, but when they're all but explicitly asexual, it crosses over into -- extreme discomfort.
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