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[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I had forgotten just how weird the queerness was in Farscape. In my mind it was subtle, but no. A few episodes earlier we had another male actor stroking another's crotch while pinning him against the wall.

It's bringing up memories of how strange the vibe was in the 00's I'd just kind of memory holed too. Some of this is admittedly Farscape weirdness, but it's channeling a genuine element of gay repression and expression of the time.

EDIT: Everyone in this episode is bi as hell. Right after the character in the OP screenshot starts making out with a woman, then later that woman is making out with another woman. I loved this show as a kid, I am starting to think this show was a lot more formative for me than I gave it credit for lol.

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 15 points 8 months ago

Episode aired Aug 18, 2000

I honestly didn't realize the term was in pop-cultural usage that far back, god damn

[-] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

That one goes waaay back.

The term "gaslighting" was coined from the 1938 British play called Gas Light, in which a husband manipulates a wife into thinking she is crazy by slyly changing the intensity of the gas lights in their home when she is left alone. He does this in an attempt to make her believe she cannot trust herself or her memory.

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago

Social media found it recently but that term goes way back

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

few episodes earlier we had another male actor stroking another's crotch while pinning him against the wall. panting

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 12 points 8 months ago

Though to be fair, the 00's "no homo" cop out in this scene is they've body swapped and that's a woman inside the alien at this point. It does lead to this line though:

This show has something really weird going about race. Cast is very white, but we constantly get lines like this:

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah but fuck crackers

Edit: woops, didn't realize this wasn't on a hexbear sub. Ahem. Fuck ypepo who are afraid of brown people.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah but fuck crackers

Crackers don't matter.

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

no, it is there

also

spoiler(this time he's actually talking about the food)

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Club crackers are ok, but they're the only ones. Saltines can get wrecked.

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Goddamnit, I saw your username and assumed that was the com host also, my bad

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

lmao yeah I figured, I like you guys the most on lemmy for being gay and cool but keep my account elsewhere because I don't want to deal with defeds and people screaming boring politics at me for my instance when I just want to talk about sci-fi

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