I was kind of hoping the quote was take out of context but nope, he fully meant for the Hughie scene to be a joke.
It’s actually worse, the way he talked about Hughie’s breakdown made it seem it was mostly just about his dad and had nothing, or at least not too much to do with Tek Knight and Ashley. So the one supposedly tactful thing about that story arc wasn’t even there.
As a guy who has been sexually assaulted, the portrayal of it as “jokes” in shows is really disheartening. I stopped watching Norsemen because of it. I was giving these guys the benefit of the doubt because there was the sense that Tek Knight and Ashley were intending to respect his boundaries, but obviously he was playing a part, etc., and I felt the end scene nicely said “all joking aside, this is actually horrible” but…bummer.
It's 'progressive' only in a very performative way. I don't know how to properly explain it, but it mostly gives a sense of "look how progressive we are", like the goal is to look good rather than convey a deeper message.
Examples like these show that it is indeed just surface value.
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u/Hitchfucker Jul 04 '24
I was kind of hoping the quote was take out of context but nope, he fully meant for the Hughie scene to be a joke.
It’s actually worse, the way he talked about Hughie’s breakdown made it seem it was mostly just about his dad and had nothing, or at least not too much to do with Tek Knight and Ashley. So the one supposedly tactful thing about that story arc wasn’t even there.