First I want to wish everyone a very nice Thanksgiving, for the Americans anyway and just a really nice day for those who are not celebrating a holiday. So last night I was up trying to get a guitar line sorted out and I thought that I would watch something on tv at the same time. There was nothing appealing on really so I picked something that looked to be mildly amusing and caught the last half of it. It was on a channel called WE which I have never seen before. It was an episode of 20/20 which was examining myths about sex. When talking about the 'seven year itch' they ended with a cartoon while they said that you could have "deep affection for one person" the cartoon showed a man and a woman in bed and then they said that you could also have a "romantic love for another person" and the camera panned back on the frame and the woman turned her head to look at a man also in the bed on the other side of her with little floating hearts in the air, they then proceeded to say that you could also be "physically sexually attracted to someone else" and then camera panned back again and the third man turned his head to look at the next person being shown who happened to be another man and he proceeded to raise his eyebrows to flirt with the new guy. They ended up showing guy + girl + guy +guy. They seemed to focus on each couple in turn and not really intending to demonstrate any type of group grope but it was interesting. I imagine we could examine it for subtext and latent homophobia and biphobia etc but it was interesting and cool that it was included in that way without being 'the' issue of discussion at that point.
First I want to wish everyone a very nice Thanksgiving, for the Americans anyway and just a really nice day for those who are not celebrating a holiday.
So last night I was up trying to get a guitar line sorted out and I thought that I would watch something on tv at the same time. There was nothing appealing on really so I picked something that looked to be mildly amusing and caught the last half of it. It was on a channel called WE which I have never seen before. It was an episode of 20/20 which was examining myths about sex. When talking about the 'seven year itch' they ended with a cartoon while they said that you could have "deep affection for one person" the cartoon showed a man and a woman in bed and then they said that you could also have a "romantic love for another person" and the camera panned back on the frame and the woman turned her head to look at a man also in the bed on the other side of her with little floating hearts in the air, they then proceeded to say that you could also be "physically sexually attracted to someone else" and then camera panned back again and the third man turned his head to look at the next person being shown who happened to be another man and he proceeded to raise his eyebrows to flirt with the new guy. They ended up showing guy + girl + guy +guy.
They seemed to focus on each couple in turn and not really intending to demonstrate any type of group grope but it was interesting. I imagine we could examine it for subtext and latent homophobia and biphobia etc but it was interesting and cool that it was included in that way without being 'the' issue of discussion at that point.