Yeah you're definitely right. Someone, I think in the house_cuddy reaction to LE's quitting, made the point that the show is actually incredibly conservative, despite the way we, and probably the majority of the audience, think of it. No ground-breaking views have ever been really aired, especially in a way that wasn't later undercut by the show's development, and the main attraction was, like you said, House voicing un-socially-acceptable things. The show has always been fundamentally conservative, in holding up the male-dominated medical landscape, and especially later, in undercutting characters who deviated from non-white-male social norms (even, later, House, imo, by going through the whole ~nice guy, quit vicodin, what leg probs~ storyline)
Fiction should always be taken extremely seriously, in my biased opinion, lololol. What is it but our extrapolation of our own societal norms? It's not just description, in the way nonfiction is, it's re-imagining and re-casting, and people (and ourselves) can choose to do that in ways that uphold or subvert mainstream opinions. House has moved towards upholding more than it did, tho.
Me too! A lot of my feminism had fine-tuning through thinking about the things that bothered me in the show, or the things that other fans said about the characters! (and now you will make me, and bammel probs later, blush until my cheeks burst)
Yeah, seriously, if we can't talk about these things at a remove, viewed through a fictional lens, when can we discuss them? It's way easier, imo, to talk about them in reference to a show than in reference to real life.
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on 2011-05-20 07:28 am (UTC)Fiction should always be taken extremely seriously, in my biased opinion, lololol. What is it but our extrapolation of our own societal norms? It's not just description, in the way nonfiction is, it's re-imagining and re-casting, and people (and ourselves) can choose to do that in ways that uphold or subvert mainstream opinions. House has moved towards upholding more than it did, tho.
Me too! A lot of my feminism had fine-tuning through thinking about the things that bothered me in the show, or the things that other fans said about the characters! (and now you will make me, and bammel probs later, blush until my cheeks burst)
Yeah, seriously, if we can't talk about these things at a remove, viewed through a fictional lens, when can we discuss them? It's way easier, imo, to talk about them in reference to a show than in reference to real life.