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[bubosquared]

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Ask me my opinion on any character from any fandom, and I will give it to you. If I do not know the fandom, I will say what I think I know based on fannish osmosis.

Link the first: Brokeback Mountain trailer/teaser available here.

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Note: The vast majority of my (limited) knowledge of comics canon comes from scans_daily, so keep that in mind ...

Ah, Bobby. I think I love him so much because he reminds me of myself, especially when it comes to social interactions. (Especially that whole "flirting with anything that moves" thing, and then the subsequent "Huh, what, people take me seriously when I flirt?" reaction.)

I think Bobby is adorable in that clueless way, and kinda juvenile, but that's understandable considering he's spent most of his life at the Mansion. I mean, he was what? Fifteen, sixteen, when he came to live at the Mansion? And he's been an X-Man ever since, and always the youngest one, and treated as such, from what I've seen. I don't think anyone's ever really expected him to grow up, so he's been quite comfortable always being the juvenile one, and never had any reason to "grow up".

Which kind of vaguely brings me to the other thing about Bobby, namely, the fact that totally think he's bi and ... well, not so much in denial, but in that it hasn't occured to him that he could be bi. I don't think the X-Men are necessarily a very queer-friendly environment to grow up in. Sure, it's easy to think that, as members of a prosecuted minority, they'd be more open-minded about it, but unfortunately, history has proven this not to be the case. And really, if you're already isolated from your peers, and seen as a freak and an abberation by most of the population, the last thing you're going to want to be is Even More Different. And I do think Bobby likes girls, and I don't think the concept of "bi" ever occured to him--he likes girl, therefore he doesn't like boys, QED. Um. If that made sense?

(Also, I vehemently Do Not Think that Bobby's reaction to finding out Jean-Paul was gay makes him homophobic, just dense, and probably rather heterocentric, but there is a difference.)

Also, I ramble. Hi. :D

[thawrecka]

Wow. That is so perfectly Bobby. Bear in mind that I stopped reading comics at some point and only started buying up the back issues I missed last year but, yeah, your image of Bobby is really similar to mine.

Also, I vehemently Do Not Think that Bobby's reaction to finding out Jean-Paul was gay makes him homophobic, just dense, and probably rather heterocentric, but there is a difference.

Oh, likewise. It's just that the writer was a leetel heavyhanded. Bobby's an adorable boy but a little sheltered in a way.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, that means my canon knowledge is at least vaguely good. :D

And yeah, the whole homophobia-accusation always struck me as the writer trying to overdo the "I'm not homophobic" thing and going for the "It's the character who is!" angle, which was stupid, because nothing Bobby had said or done would've seemed homophobic to most people.