wave-dancing-bottles replied to your post: Like, it didn't even OCCUR to them.
*guiltily raises hand* still one of them.
lol Come on, man. Why would you even feel guilty about that? Just because you don't see gay ships everywhere doesn't mean you're phobic or anything. I honestly made the post because I know that my reaction is hardly universal, and it's funny to think about someone else occupying a completely different headspace from your own.
raikolives replied to your post: Like, it didn't even OCCUR to them.
It’s not that odd, really. If the person watching holds no sexual/romantic attraction to their same-sex friends and never would they might not see that in such an “everyman” character either. And it isn’t something you associate with the time period.
Same-sex relationships among war comrades are old as time, so there really isn't much reason to not expect them in a story on the basis of when it's set. (For the record, WWII was HELLA gay.) Since homosexuality was illegal, it's understandable not to expect it in stories written at the time, but I'd hope that modern treatments of the era would do a better job of reflecting reality (ie anything not the equivalent of putting one's hands over one's ears and going "LALALALALA").
