| re: Here! Here! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:35 pm EST 02/19/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Here! Here! - Michael_Portantiere 12:33 am EST 02/19/19 | |
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| I think you are completely projecting onto what i said something you seem to want me to have said so that you can insult my intelligence. I did not say that I think Bobby is gay, I said the opposite. I have always been a defender of him being straight and that dismissing everything the show does by simply saying "oh, he's in the closet" does a disservice to the point(s) of the show. BUT I think it displays another stunning lack of intelligence to think that being closeted is a one-line joke, or that that is how it would play. I don't know if you're gay or have ever been an adult in the closet, but as a formerly closeted adult I can tell you that Company could ALSO play out exactly as written and have Being Alive be about giving in to the truth you know deep down about who you are and what you actually want. When I came out it was very much for the reasons Being Alive talks about, and it was very much at a similar point in Bobby's life/why Company's text begins/how it plays. So I think you are being far too defensive of your idea of what it is. And while I agree it changes what the show is about in someways if Bobby realizes he's gay, it also does not in most ways. Do you not think that for decades closeted men have watched Company and see it through the filter of their lives and experiences and, if able to get this open with themselves, thought about how sad it is that they haven't gotten to Being Alive yet? It plays out perfectly for a gay closeted person, EVEN IF it wasn't meant to be that. And furthermore, just because you can make a case for it being one way does not mean you therefor think it is the only way. It's pretty stupid to me to think a piece of art can ONLY be taken one specific way, especially one meant to not be literal. But I also don't know why i'm bothering to try for a thoughtful discussion with you when you so casually insult my intelligence off of a statement I didn't even make. |
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