#btw - Kirk's tom cattery is the reason that RDA of Stargate-SG1

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Okay, but what happened to the concept of two men being best friends & platonic soulmates, willing to sacrifice their career or their own happiness or even their life for the sake of the other? Out of strong loyalty and the kind of love the Ancient Greeks termed philia (as in Philidelphia, the City of Brotherly Love). I've experienced that kind of love with several female best friends (at different stages in my life) - and at no point did either of us yearn for some kind of sexual relationship.

Is online culture telling me that males are incapable of the same, by interpreting male friendships in media (including in well-known pieces of literature) as 'of course they want to have sex with each other!'? I can't accept that premise. My own brother has been best friends with the same dude for 25 years (since first grade) and they refer to themselves as 'brothers from another mother'. I'm not anti slash ship or real world m/m romantic love, but sometimes...sometimes I just get so tired being told 'OF COURSE THEY'RE DOING IT!!!'.

#will I get flamed? dunno #just read a thing about #Amok Time #apparently the progenitor of m/m fics #now I maintain Ship & Let Ship #but sometimes I just get exhausted of being on the fringe of how things are interpreted #especially having a understanding of how subtext actually works #and Kirk's exposed tiddies were not subtext #if you watch the whole series you'll find plenty of examples of Jim's 'artfully ripped' shirts #it was always for the ladies in the viewing audience #James Kirk #leading man & tom cat #as Amok Time was the season premiere they wanted to pull out all the stops to keep audiences tuned in #btw - Kirk's tom cattery is the reason that RDA of Stargate-SG1 #insisted that his character would not be bedding various alien women on the planets they visited #Jack O'Neill only did that once #and only because he thought he was stranded for life after three months away from Earth #and he had a genuine relationship going with the woman first