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Sense8 wrong depiction of homosexual relationships

I'm baffled I'm the only one who noticed this but the problem with Sense8 and homosexual relationships in it it's not that "it has an agenda" because even if it was, so what? It's okay to have an agenda.

The problem is that their sense of insecurity towards the whole LGBT affair prompt them to depict those relationships in a not spontaneous fashion but with a "see? we can love too" in your face excess that actually makes gay couples appear "different" than heterosexual ones when what any LGBT movement should work towards is showing equality.

By this I mean that the only way a series can depict good LGBT relationships in a way that it's positive for the cause is by showing that the partners would act and speak the same whether they're hetero or gay, we should for example be able to imagine Lito saying the same exact things he said to his partner and doing the same exact things to a woman and see no differences.

By showing LGBT love as intrinsically different from hetero interractions they're actually doing the LGBT cause a disservice and actually giving the detractors a reason not to sympathise.

And by different I mean that they depict LGBT love as this obsessive compulsive necessity to tell each other how they are in love since the first day they have met and how they need to kiss every moment as if they're trying to convince someone, like they're "explaning LGBT love" looking at the camera rather than "loving as any person would"

That's not how couples of any kind interact on a day to day basis. They don't feel the need to kiss in every public place just to say "see? we're kissing, we love each other, get it?" and they don't need to repeat each other in the bedroom cliched lines about how they found their true love, true self, how beautiful the partner is and so on

it's just not spontaneous, it's very far-fetched and like they're trying to convince someone. And so far between those who think the series is doing good to the LGBT cause by depicting gay relationships and those claiming the "LGBT agenda" is annoying I think I'm the first one who actually complain of a total lack of spontaneity in the LGBT relationships, so far that it doesn't do anything good for the LGBT cause, actually it makes the LGBT characters intrinsically unsympathetic to most people, like some cheesy character from a low-quality 80's Argentine soapie.

The day that hetero people see how spontaneous and genuine a LGBT relationship is, so they can relate to the one they have with their partners and spouses, will actually be a positive day for the LGBT community, not an epidemic of stereotypical and annoying forced gay character with over the top lines and mannerisms in net-series.

Anyone else thought the same?

Posted Apr 15, 2016, 1:15 AM UTC

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