OHHH MAN, SO TRUE ABOUT ITS CONSERVATIVENESS. I was just thinking about that yesterday, actually. I was thinking about the shit hitting the fan with LE's departure, which led to thinking about the attitude of the show, and was like, "Wow, the show is really nothing but extreme conservatism disguised as progressive thinking BECAUSE of the socially unacceptable things House says and does." Except lol, there's nothing progressive about the things House says and does, and there's NOTHING progressive about the attitude of the show as a whole.
A lot of people fall for it, though - a LOT of people seriously think House is progressive thought and opinion and fail to identify the conservativeness throughout. They're like, "OMG IT'S SUCH A REVOLUTIONARY SHOW TO HAVE ON SUCH A CONSERVATIVE NETWORK". Um no, not really. The bullshit House sprouts isn't a great deal different to the bullshit that Glenn Beck sprouts. It's offensive and hateful and infringes on people's equal/human rights. There is NOTHING progressive about that.
It also irks me that the show promotes the idea that being offensive and socially unacceptable and expressing prejudice in the guise of "being confronting" is cool. It just confirms the horrible misconception that freedom of speech means people can say whatever the hell they want, fuck the consequences and fuck whoever gets offended. Fuck, it bugs me so much that people think this attitude is progressive thinking.
I meant, like, fiction shouldn't be taken seriously in that it's not reality and I try not to get too affected by things that happen in fiction. HOWEVER, THAT SAID - everything you said about viewing things through a stage lens (ie, fiction) is spot on and is exactly why I can't *not* take things in fiction seriously. These days, I end up spotting so many horrible, glaring facets of -isms in so many elements of media, fictional and nonfictional, that it makes my head want to explode. Like you said, fiction is an extrapolation of our societal norms, and it's an extrapolation of our social conditioning and social expectations. And so much of that is SO FUCKING HIDEOUS. (Hence, why I *try* not to take things seriously in fiction because I just want some escapism every now and again, but the glaringly hideous issues often end up ruining any chance of escapism for me.)
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A lot of people fall for it, though - a LOT of people seriously think House is progressive thought and opinion and fail to identify the conservativeness throughout. They're like, "OMG IT'S SUCH A REVOLUTIONARY SHOW TO HAVE ON SUCH A CONSERVATIVE NETWORK". Um no, not really. The bullshit House sprouts isn't a great deal different to the bullshit that Glenn Beck sprouts. It's offensive and hateful and infringes on people's equal/human rights. There is NOTHING progressive about that.
It also irks me that the show promotes the idea that being offensive and socially unacceptable and expressing prejudice in the guise of "being confronting" is cool. It just confirms the horrible misconception that freedom of speech means people can say whatever the hell they want, fuck the consequences and fuck whoever gets offended. Fuck, it bugs me so much that people think this attitude is progressive thinking.
I meant, like, fiction shouldn't be taken seriously in that it's not reality and I try not to get too affected by things that happen in fiction. HOWEVER, THAT SAID - everything you said about viewing things through a stage lens (ie, fiction) is spot on and is exactly why I can't *not* take things in fiction seriously. These days, I end up spotting so many horrible, glaring facets of -isms in so many elements of media, fictional and nonfictional, that it makes my head want to explode. Like you said, fiction is an extrapolation of our societal norms, and it's an extrapolation of our social conditioning and social expectations. And so much of that is SO FUCKING HIDEOUS. (Hence, why I *try* not to take things seriously in fiction because I just want some escapism every now and again, but the glaringly hideous issues often end up ruining any chance of escapism for me.)
Omg I've missed you, btw. ♥