And I agree with your frustration. Does it matter what Sam and Frodo were, if anything? What we did see is that they loved each other dearly as friends; why does it have to become sexual?
But I know that a lot of people would instantly be turned off as soon as they realized that some hot main male charactr wasn't going to come along and 'cure' her of her asexuality. Ican't tell you how many times I've heard the old line..."Just wait until you meet the right guy." It's always said as some giant magical truth, as if I will be transformed the instant he appears.
People tend to want to believe in everyone being like everyone else. Deviations in any form, be it asexuality or vegetarianism (even though my family has been vegetarian for millennia, people still wonder how I survive without eating meat) or believing in magic scares the more conservative among us. That doesn't mean you have to bow to them, though. The rest of us do like differences and weird people, because we're weird ourselves. :)
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Date: 2006-04-01 12:47 am (UTC)But I know that a lot of people would instantly be turned off as soon as they realized that some hot main male charactr wasn't going to come along and 'cure' her of her asexuality. Ican't tell you how many times I've heard the old line..."Just wait until you meet the right guy." It's always said as some giant magical truth, as if I will be transformed the instant he appears.
People tend to want to believe in everyone being like everyone else. Deviations in any form, be it asexuality or vegetarianism (even though my family has been vegetarian for millennia, people still wonder how I survive without eating meat) or believing in magic scares the more conservative among us. That doesn't mean you have to bow to them, though. The rest of us do like differences and weird people, because we're weird ourselves. :)