But Rob, I don't understand...You seem to be saying that your wife is "right" because other people have speculated the same thing. But what does that have to do with anything? Do you think that the fact that some people have said A and others have said B automatically validates A and B?
Because it doesn't. It neither validates them nor invalidates them. As you know, people speculate about all kinds of stuff, and so the fact that some have debated this character or that one proves only one thing: There are people who enjoy speculating about this character or that one.
You see what I mean? I think you're saying that "Other people have thought the same thing!" proves something. But it doesn't - not in and of itself. I'll grant you that if most people have thought the same thing, or a significant number (and how you define that, I have no idea), you might be on to something. But that there has been speculation proves nothing except that people (except for me, apparently
) like to speculate.For what it's worth, I agree with some of them, too - Q, for example (although I'd say he is neither gay nor straight nor bisexual but is instead able to assume whatever sexuality, including none at all, that fits his purpose at any given moment - I mean, he can do and be whatever he wants, right? and why should he consider himself tied down to human/mortal/carbon-based lifeform standards of sexuality since he's none of those things?), and quite possibly Garak.
The old saying is, "There's no smoke without fire." Well, when it comes to this sort of speculation, you can actually have a lot of smoke and zero fire. People just like to speculate about these things, and so long as they are doing it in a lighthearted and nonjudgmental way about fictional characters, as you and your wife do, it probably doesn't do any harm. But don't take "Other people have thought the same thing!" as proof of anything except that other people have thought the same thing.
Men are fantasizing about them smooching another woman?
