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Was "Body & Soul" A Gay Episode?

Whatever Josie. I'm sure you're a lot of fun in real life, but I don't need to be lectured by you. Enjoy your indignant outrage.

So because I didn't laugh at your homophobic slur you're going to make personal digs. Right, enjoy being homophobic and ignorant then.

Ciao.
 
As for being thin skinned, not everyone can ignore derogatory comments with a turn of a cheek, certainly not that gay teen who suicided over similar homophobic put-downs last week.

Dude, there's a huge difference between

A lot of VOY was pretty gay.


and

JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND [sic] UGLY. HE MUST DIE!

or

I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/jamey-...open-criminal-investigation/story?id=14580832

Sure, bullying is a crime. But you are definately fighting against it in the wrong place and against the wrong person.
 
Are well to do families in England playing croquet on the grass being gay?-- no

Are clean-up artists after a Chemistry 101 accident being gay?-- no

You are called to help an invalid in a crowded passage and is this being gay?-- no

If you must pull down your pants in an airline terminal being gay?-- no

If you must share seats with a male counterpart in a poker tourney being gay?-- no
 
I think a lot of folks are taking this way too seriously.

Guy being forced to dress up in girl's clothes and then fending off the advances of a guy who thinks it's a hot chick is an old, old literary/cinematic trope. "Body and Soul" was just basically a twist on that. I loved it because of the great performance from Jeri Ryan, who finally got to play someone with a personality.

I'm getting a little tired of turning every aspect of an enjoyable, sometimes thought-provoking show into a disputation on race, class, and gender.

Homophobes are the assholes who victimize people who are minding their own business just because of their sexual orientation. Anyone who calls someone who wrote, directed, or acted in a mistaken-identity romp homophobic is doing a real disservice to those who've really suffered homophobia. If you keep using the word to describe something innocuous but whose taste you personally question, it will lose any value it has.
 
I think people take the wrong fight in this argument:

Seven had lived most of her life with her body being usurped and used against her will...

Now the Doctor...her friend is doing the same...
 
More silly threads in the Voyager section. Was Body and Soul a gay episode, how is Janeway sexy, how large was Chakotay's penis, etc. I like Voyager and dislike DS9 for the better part, but I have to admit that in their forum, no one reflects on Rom's and Leeta's sex life.
 
Picardo acted out all the scenes for her so she could see how he would play it and then imitated him, but from an acting stand-point you're right it's well done
 
Jeri Ryan was fantastic in this ep. I thought the ep was titillating, not gay & as a whole, Voyager was quite a camp show. I loved it.
 
This is one ep. that, I believe, where high-tech wins-out over fear, stupidity, and degeneracy. The doctor was very sure to keep his status away from the area called lust and sex.
 
I think a lot of folks are taking this way too seriously.

Guy being forced to dress up in girl's clothes and then fending off the advances of a guy who thinks it's a hot chick is an old, old literary/cinematic trope. "Body and Soul" was just basically a twist on that. I loved it because of the great performance from Jeri Ryan, who finally got to play someone with a personality.

I'm getting a little tired of turning every aspect of an enjoyable, sometimes thought-provoking show into a disputation on race, class, and gender.

Homophobes are the assholes who victimize people who are minding their own business just because of their sexual orientation. Anyone who calls someone who wrote, directed, or acted in a mistaken-identity romp homophobic is doing a real disservice to those who've really suffered homophobia. If you keep using the word to describe something innocuous but whose taste you personally question, it will lose any value it has.

QFT
Nobody remembers Klinger from M*A*S*H*?
Much like Seven & The Doc, he was in a situation of duress and was exploiting a loop hole to get out of a bad situation.
"B&S" isn't a gay episode, they were just trying to exploit what they saw as a quick fast way to break out of jail.
 
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Whatever Josie. I'm sure you're a lot of fun in real life, but I don't need to be lectured by you. Enjoy your indignant outrage.

So because I didn't laugh at your homophobic slur you're going to make personal digs. Right, enjoy being homophobic and ignorant then.

Ciao.

No, its probably because you didnt report it too a MOD like you're supposed too and dragged it out here.

They have support groups and hotlines for EVERYONE to use so suicide doesn't have to be an option. T aking you're own life just maens the bullies won.
 
1. O'Brien stole his wife.

2. It's possible to make love till you die. Do the Homophobes really win if you manage to overdose on sodomy? Surely the less sodomy permeating through the morphogenetic field, the straighter humanity manifests?
 
Going into labor wasn't the situation. The only labor in the ep. was keeping her stomach from getting upset and they both had to be devious enough to keep their secret unnoticed. I can believe anything divisible wasn't labor.
 
I rewatched "Body and Soul" thanks to this thread. Loved it even more. Had dinner at a restaurant last night; ordered the cheesecake for dessert. Did my best approximation of Jeri Ryan acting like Robert Picardo when it came.

It made my wife laugh, at least.
 
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I rewatched "Body and Soul" thanks to this thread. Loved it even more. Had dinner at a restaurant last night; ordered the cheesecake for dessert. Did my best approximation of Jeri Ryan acting like Robert Picardo when it came.

It made my wife laugh, at least.
:guffaw:
 
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