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Originally posted by Royalan
Two grown men my ass. The idea that harrassment is somehow not as big a deal when it's between "two men" is the VERY reason why sexual abuse is so rampant in the gay community and often goes unreported. The **** is NOT cute.
As it stands, Kevin used his position as Patrick's boss to get him to come to the office late at night, proceeded to invade Patrick's personal space AGAIN, and then whined and pressed closer when Patrick initially pushed him away.
If this had happened between female and her MALE boss in real life, this would be an open-shut case of sexual harassment.
I disagree completely. Yes, Queer as Folk was a campy, fun show. But the gays it portrayed were more realistic than anything we've seen from Looking.
The character in QaF had lives, ambitions, hobbies, and things going on in their lives that had NOTHING to do with who they wanted to ****, and the show actually spent time on this. QaF didn't just say "Oh, Brian Kinney works for a marketing firm, now lets watch him have sex for 6 seasons." Brian actually had MAJOR drama on the show surrounding his career ambitions (and does anyone remember the season where he ran for local office?) Justin dealt with PTSD. Emmett dealt with ageism. Ted dealt with drug addiction. Michael was a huge dork and spent a lot of time learning how to grow up and be a mature adult. QaF had TWO LESBIAN CHARACTERS that went through their own ****. QaF wasn't afraid to give it's characters drama and tension in other aspects of their lives besides who they were ****ing. They were relateable, and they had real things happen to them. And these weren't just bullet-points, the show actually spent episodes of time dealing with these things.
Looking doesn't. Did we ever see Patrick deal with any sort of work drama that had nothing to do with Kevin? No. Hell, let's apply the Bechdel test here: did we ever see Patrick once, just once, have a single conversation with another character that had nothing to do with a man he was ****ing/crushing on? Nope. That is not real. Gay men are more than just our dicks and assholes.
Looking shows us the most 1-dimensional, flat gay characters we've had on TV since Will and Grace, but because it's on HBO and shot through an Instagram filter we're supposed to believe they're deep?
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Queer As Folk will always be superior. Looking is a dumbed down QAF for the current generation of gays with facial hair & a hipster sellout flare. Plus, it's really boring, I couldn't get past episode three.
If this wasn't a gay themed show with no blindly gay followers watching just because it's a gay show, it would be off the air after three episodes. Nothing makes me
want to know more about the character. Why do I care about their dry dialogue and situations when I can't get into the slow moving characters.
Of course the directors defended how slow the show is, calling it "authentic". But the gays will eat anything up with gay male leads.