This will make several of you happy

[andrewducker]

John "Captain Jack Harkness" Barrowman is getting a civil partnership..  Altogether now, awwww.

Comments

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

He's completely adorable. I'm glad he'll at least be contributing to the gene pool, so I have something nice to look at as a dirty old lady.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Since he's actually gay, will people still write slash fic about his character, or does that take the fun out of it?

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

awwww indeed. But why "awwww"? Why do we go straight (ahem) for that "awww"?

[andrewducker]

Same reason we would if any peron/celeb we liked had a happy event?

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

nah, i reckon theres a cute thing going on in that awwww that you wouldnt get with a het couple. Ive seen it a lot, the ones that are not disgusted react to gay male couple like they're puppies or kittens.

[andrewducker]

You do get it with het couples too - but there's certainly more of it with gay couples. Women tend to do it more than men in general, and I think there's something about two men together that brings out a certain instinct in a fair number of women.

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

yeah, it does seem to function, like disgust, at the level of instinct, with women it's probably something to do with a felt sense that they are temporarily free of the threat of battery or rape.

[andrewducker]

I suspect that there's a large chunk of that. Plus a chunk of "two guys together is hot!" that at least some women feel. Oh, plus gay guys have this reputation for looking after themselves physically and not being as much of a mess as straight guys. I'm sure that's somewhat of a stereotype, but there seems to be at least some truth in it, at least according to TV :->

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

in fact the research shows we are a little more prone to anxiety and depression than the straightboys(but that could be for all kinds of reasons, like we actually admit it), but we do tend to have larger penises, so who's complaining.

[andrewducker]

It's because you're all a bunch of girls.

Which, of course, is why the girls like you :->