in context of the way SPN-the-narrative has some weird masculinity issues, is...hinky.
It makes me very uncomfortable for the show to happily play around with subtext and wink at the audience, and then when a real bisexual fan with real feelings wants to talk about it, for the actors and fans to basically respond along the lines of "wow, did she really just go there". The audience responded terribly of course, but I wish too that the actors could have handled it differently then they did. It wouldn't have been a big deal for Jensen to say let her finish the question and to then seriously answer it, instead of backing up the general atmosphere by acting like she was asking the wrong question and let's all just move on and pretend we didn't understand what she was asking. There was something about it all that felt very shaming, especially after the fan had just told the room that she was bisexual, to then get the response she did really sits uneasily with me :/
I kind of can't blame the individuals involved for setting and enforcing whatever boundaries.
But yeah I am torn because I can understand the actors not wanting fans to push too many boundries with them and bring the fandom into it too much, so I am thinking that maybe if that was the first time Jensen had been asked a question along those lines then he would hopefully have answered it fairly, even if just by brushing aside the subtext or whatever. But because there had been inappropriate questions in the past and they are con veterans, then maybe that all played into them being on the alert and "great, I know where this is going" when they heard the word subtext
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Date: 2013-05-06 05:58 pm (UTC)It makes me very uncomfortable for the show to happily play around with subtext and wink at the audience, and then when a real bisexual fan with real feelings wants to talk about it, for the actors and fans to basically respond along the lines of "wow, did she really just go there". The audience responded terribly of course, but I wish too that the actors could have handled it differently then they did. It wouldn't have been a big deal for Jensen to say let her finish the question and to then seriously answer it, instead of backing up the general atmosphere by acting like she was asking the wrong question and let's all just move on and pretend we didn't understand what she was asking. There was something about it all that felt very shaming, especially after the fan had just told the room that she was bisexual, to then get the response she did really sits uneasily with me :/
I kind of can't blame the individuals involved for setting and enforcing whatever boundaries.
But yeah I am torn because I can understand the actors not wanting fans to push too many boundries with them and bring the fandom into it too much, so I am thinking that maybe if that was the first time Jensen had been asked a question along those lines then he would hopefully have answered it fairly, even if just by brushing aside the subtext or whatever. But because there had been inappropriate questions in the past and they are con veterans, then maybe that all played into them being on the alert and "great, I know where this is going" when they heard the word subtext