LOOKING — Page 36

"I would have expected John to question Kevin about Patrick's allegations during his sissy fit. But no, none was forthcoming and it was truly WTF is up with this."

I know some will say I'm working too hard to make this work... but it made sense to me. Yes, on a typical soap, that's what would have happened. But if John truly has no idea, and has met Patrick for about 20 seconds before, is apparently very drunk, Patrick is very drunk, they're at a party, etc, etc, I find it completely plausible at that point he would remain fairly clueless. Obviously once he found Patrick and Kevin outside together looking intense and miserable and claimed he was looking for the sign up sheet he already had SOME idea something was going on.

*edit* Roscoe I think we mostly agree. Except, as I mentioned, I thought John already noticed some awkwardness in the stoop scene.

Updated On: 2/26/15 at 10:03 PM

I agree with that. Kevin is obviously a certain "type" that I am sure most of us have seen in real life.

I've only seen a few episodes of Looking, but Russell Tovey was hotter before I knew he was a "Masc only" type of guy. Is that unfair?

Tovey thinks carefully about what he’s going to say next. If I had to guess, watching him fidget, I’d say he’s weighing up whether to be honest at the risk of causing offence, or whether to divert and say something bland. He chooses to risk offence. “I feel like I could have been really effeminate, if I hadn’t gone to the school I went to. Where I felt like I had to toughen up. If I’d have been able to relax, prance around, sing in the street, I might be a different person now. I thank my dad for that, for not allowing me to go down that path. Because it’s probably given me the unique quality that people think I have.”
Guardian interview

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His Dad sounds like an asshole.

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Why do they let them speak?

When your accent sounds like you have balls in your mouth, I wouldn't exactly call it "toughened" up. Every man who pulls the "toughen up" card is just a total bitch boy underneath it all.

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A friend of a friend on Facebook has implied that these comments need to be taken in the context of Tovey talking about himself and his career. And I guess I can see it to some degree but… I think it's still fair to address the implications of what he said, which I think in a nutshell is if he had gone to drama school he probably would've been at mincing faggot now. And his dad didn't want that to happen to him and he's glad that his dad did that for him.

I do think there are some intersections of homosexuality and gender that correlate why some people are more naturally effeminate than others. I just don't understand why it still has to be a thing. Some people conform to stereotypes and that always makes people uncomfortable, especially people who don't conform to stereotypes, whether naturally or having it beat out of them.

He's a stupid actor. That's all STUPID.

Most actors are stupid. And even when they're not stupid, they're vain and self-centered. Which is a kind of stupid.

All actors should act. Very few actors--if any at all--should be allowed to give interviews. Because they're vain and self-centered and stupid.

And I am getting so F*CKing sick of Internet Outrage--particularly when the Internet Outrage is leveled against someone on our own "side." It's no longer even Outrage Du Jour. It's Outrage de l'Heure.

Whatever happened to fighting the REAL enemy?

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"Whatever happened to fighting the REAL enemy?"

You mean the other stupid people? Because it gets increasingly more difficult to tell the difference between the stupid non-enemies and the stupid enemies.

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All I know is, I would really like to be there when Justin Sayre gets ahold of this!!

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It really gives a new spin to the term "straight acting", doesn't it?

I just remember the piece by Armistead Maupin (which I haven't been able to locate in eons) where he talked about how liberating it is when you realize, "No, all gay men are not my brothers." And the thing is, I think intra-community critique is healthy.

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