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Asexuals, and the TV show "House"
14 years ago
Goddammit, Fox. Can't do anything without screwing it up.
Now, I don't watch House. Never did. (I like my shows with cars) But I know there's a whole lot of people that do. Apparently, this week's episode was about an Asexual couple. And, this being a medical drama, they had to come up with a medical reason that somebody could *gasp* actually not want to have sex.
Read more about it here: http://club-of-aces.deviantart.com/.....ouse-281550367 on Deviantart.
A couple quotes for those too lazy to click.
"Dr. Wilson (another character) talking to Dr. House (the main character, of course) about a patient he had who claimed to be asexual. Not only that: the patient was conventionally attractive, well-adjusted, and even happily married to another ace (how's that for defying stereotypes?). House was extremely skeptical--okay, that's a bit of an understatement--and bet Wilson $100 that he could prove there was a 'reason' for the couple's asexuality.
The asexuality storyline . . . was handled pretty well through most of the episode. But then, at the eleventh hour, it took a nosedive...
You see, House always has to be right. And as House always has to be right, he had to find a medical cause for the couple's asexuality. He couldn't find an excuse for the patient herself, so he conned her husband into coming in for tests by offering him a free flu shot. Eventually, he found a tumour on the husband's pituitary that was blocking his hormones. (Oh, did I mention? Asexuality was being represented as the lack of a sex drive rather than the lack of sexual attraction. )
Asexuality could still escape the episode unscathed, though: the wife still had no medical reason for being asexual. Surely she couldn't be pathologized, right?
Not pathologized maybe, but delegitimized all the same: she, upon discovering that her husband wasn't truly asexual, immediately confessed that neither was she: she had been lying to him for their entire marriage so that they could be together."
So, apparently Asexuals either have a tumor, or are lying. Wonderful. >:|
Now, I don't watch House. Never did. (I like my shows with cars) But I know there's a whole lot of people that do. Apparently, this week's episode was about an Asexual couple. And, this being a medical drama, they had to come up with a medical reason that somebody could *gasp* actually not want to have sex.
Read more about it here: http://club-of-aces.deviantart.com/.....ouse-281550367 on Deviantart.
A couple quotes for those too lazy to click.
"Dr. Wilson (another character) talking to Dr. House (the main character, of course) about a patient he had who claimed to be asexual. Not only that: the patient was conventionally attractive, well-adjusted, and even happily married to another ace (how's that for defying stereotypes?). House was extremely skeptical--okay, that's a bit of an understatement--and bet Wilson $100 that he could prove there was a 'reason' for the couple's asexuality.
The asexuality storyline . . . was handled pretty well through most of the episode. But then, at the eleventh hour, it took a nosedive...
You see, House always has to be right. And as House always has to be right, he had to find a medical cause for the couple's asexuality. He couldn't find an excuse for the patient herself, so he conned her husband into coming in for tests by offering him a free flu shot. Eventually, he found a tumour on the husband's pituitary that was blocking his hormones. (Oh, did I mention? Asexuality was being represented as the lack of a sex drive rather than the lack of sexual attraction. )
Asexuality could still escape the episode unscathed, though: the wife still had no medical reason for being asexual. Surely she couldn't be pathologized, right?
Not pathologized maybe, but delegitimized all the same: she, upon discovering that her husband wasn't truly asexual, immediately confessed that neither was she: she had been lying to him for their entire marriage so that they could be together."
So, apparently Asexuals either have a tumor, or are lying. Wonderful. >:|
Adding that the wife was lying was incredibly retarded, though. But that's what happens when you make a show about a Jerk Ass Sue, I guess.
Just makes it that much harder for Ace's to come out without everyone thinking there must be something medically wrong with them :/
Tumor, or lying?
House is always right, you said it yourself. >w>
Damn you fox...ruining some of the best shows out there...
that's just no bueno