So my sister recoiled and sighed when I said that I adore Tig and Venus on Sons of Anarchy. She said that Tig is a pervert and that Venus is a tranny and that's all it is. Aside from my immediate anger I calmed down significantly because I realized. I don't care what anybody thinks. Tig and Venus are fucking beautiful. Blaming Tigs creepy behaviours in the past and 'pervasiveness' on his fixation on a transgendered man is simple, dismissive and sad. It devalues how beautiful and sweet Venus is and what they share. Venus is not a thing or a that. Venus is not an object. Saying that Tig is fucked up so that is the only reason why he is perversely fixated on a deviant is discriminatory to Venus' character. She is a person, and believing that suggests transsexuals are not worthy of awe or 'real' love. The way Tig looks at her, talks to her and touches her speaks volumes. Speaks in every language of love and care. There is no pure sexual desire, there is infatuation and intrigue. Protectiveness, not possession. Venus does not exist to Tig to simply satisfy a kink or fantasy. And I can see that from the two episodes they shared together. I want this to continue. I want it to make viewers uncomfortable. I want it to progress. I want Venus to be Tigs old lady. I want it to be shoved in everyone's face; that this is not perversion. It's real. That doesn't mean they need more screen time. But it means that what they share on the side should be valued as real love that exists in this fictional universe. So that maybe viewers can accept transsexuals into their own family like how Gemma took Venus in. Or at the very least, we as a fandom can proudly say that Venus and Tig are canon. And everyone else who has a complaint can suck it.
