I came away from that panel having learned two things.
1. If it made you cry, made you angry, made you react that strongly, then it's GOOD DRAMA! So stop being angry about it. It wasn't stated in those words. Not even close. But it's what I took away from it.
2. No one "gets a pass" on homophobia. Please don't use that phrase. It hints that the person getting said pass actually IS homophobic and is being allowed to be so because of whatever it is being argued. In this case, RTD was being "given a pass" on homophobic undertones of "Children of Earth" because of his being one of the most out-there gay men in Great Britain. It took me a half hour to realize that the phrasing was inaccurate and I now reject the phrase in almost any context.
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Date: 2010-03-03 01:34 pm (UTC)1. If it made you cry, made you angry, made you react that strongly, then it's GOOD DRAMA! So stop being angry about it. It wasn't stated in those words. Not even close. But it's what I took away from it.
2. No one "gets a pass" on homophobia. Please don't use that phrase. It hints that the person getting said pass actually IS homophobic and is being allowed to be so because of whatever it is being argued. In this case, RTD was being "given a pass" on homophobic undertones of "Children of Earth" because of his being one of the most out-there gay men in Great Britain. It took me a half hour to realize that the phrasing was inaccurate and I now reject the phrase in almost any context.