tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post6456001966075569740..comments2024-03-12T16:53:52.795-04:00Comments on Crypto-Catholic Libertine: FlitcraftJules Aiméhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-90748984409056248172010-07-07T00:29:29.204-04:002010-07-07T00:29:29.204-04:00Very well put Jules. I agree that Season 3 was pr...Very well put Jules. I agree that Season 3 was pretty lousy except for a few episodes of brilliance. I always felt they didn't know what to do for the six months leading up to the Kennedy assassination after they let it be known early in the Season that Margaret's wedding day was November 23, 1963 and the audience knew that was the day after and was dying to see how it would screw up the wedding.<br /><br />I appreciate your compliment and was about to take issue with your view that Don resembles more a Jewish man trying to pass than a closeted gay man thinking that the consequences of being discovered as Jewish would be less severe than being exposed as gay, but then I remembered Gentlemen's Agreement which put that to rest.<br /><br />You're assessment that while Don is lonely and isloated even from those closest to him he is not unhappy or neurotic I think is accurate. But I do think he blames others for the failures of his relationships, not until the end of the season does he being to examine himself honestly which he had heretofore had not been able to do.<br /><br />And I never understood why they didn't let Sal get laid either, and adding insult to injury get fired because he turned down Lee Garner's proposition! There was so much potential to do something with his character but they blew it at least for now. But your comment that American fiction doesn't portray gay men passing at the office and at home and then going out on a tear every night (which I think was the reality back then and is even today) is very telling. I think it has to do with the culture of Victimhood and the gay community's rejection of Bisexuality as a legitimate option. While there were certainly men like Sal who were chronically frustrated, I believe there were an equal if not greater number of men who were and are doing what you suggest, married to women, raising children, hetero in every way, who have hook ups, even romances with men. Most of them don't consider themselves victims, and wouldn't think of "coming out" in today's parlance. But they are largely rejected and condemned as hypocrites by the gay community because they don't fit into the gay/straight social construct, and can't be considered victimized or oppressed.BobinCThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349641483981235572noreply@blogger.com