words and thoughts and stuff

During the interim, Adler and Karofsky’s character had their spotlight on Glee’s “Sue Sylvester Shuffle” Super Bowl episode, where Dave was forced (along with the rest of the non-New Directions members of the football team) to join performing with Glee kids. Again, Adler put in a remarkable performance, and with Max Adler’s experience (he’s one of the only actors on the show to had really been in a glee club) and assumed singing ability, I was really optimistic (as were many burgeoning “Kurtofsky” shippers) to the potential for the writers to carefully take his character through the transformation into a “good guy” that I was rooting for. See, there are a ton of gay youth out there, and while we were “born this way”, not all of us are born “fabulous”. Sexuality does not pin you into a stereotype, and the concept of a sports-driven, cocky, and admittedly masculine presence could (and for a time was) be a beacon for the untold number of gay kids struggling with themselves, but only seeing one “kind” of gay person on the TV (which is an unarguable force for exposure and understanding). As great as Kurt’s character is (and definitely an icon for many), Dave’s path could be just as inspiring. At first, I believed in this, even given Karofsky’s initial and total resistance (which I felt gave it more realism). …And then it all went wrong.