![]() Yeah, I can agree that it is not really that explicit by itself what the intended message is. ![]() She was just on the cusp of being an obvious stand-in for a Communist Revolutionary, which is why so many Communist-sympathetic fans flipped out when the moral of the story wound up being that violence against the bourgeois wasn't the answer. The drama around Bismuth was kind of interesting, considering. For the most part I'd say it's glaringly obvious if someone's producing something on the level of a Chick Tract or Anonymous Asexual, whereas I agree with you that SU is just on the edge of being able to be interpreted in absence of Sugar's words as something other than sexual metaphors. There's a lot of talk in both sides of the aisle today if whether a creator's politics should or shouldn't be considered in the final product. That the creation is separate from even the intentions of the original creator, leaving the viewer's interpretations as most important. This concept is basically Death of the Author. It might be a rosy view of sexuality and the world, but if you don't -have- to view everything through that lens, then you can just disregard it. Even if it was the whole focus of her creative vision, so long as you didn't -have- to see it that way, it'd be whatever. But to me, so long as she didn't crane anyone's neck to see it that way, I don't really care. ![]() People could guess at the meaning of SU's fusion-obsession themselves and come up with interpretations, one of which would be the overly optimistic view of sexuality. People have guessed at parts here and there, but for their own work. Eliot has often said that what he wrote it for is far, far removed from what people view it as - but he's never revealed, as far as I know, what the original meaning he gave to the poem is. What is the original meaning of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land?" Well, nobody knows. Right, but what I'm saying is, if not for her own insistence that people view the show the way she intended, you wouldn't really get that from watching it as a kid. My problem isn't so much that fusion can be interpreted as sex, is that it is sex that I have an issue with. I got that it was a metaphor for puberty and growing up. Some thing with when Steven and Connie fuse. Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, and there is nothing all that vulgar about that. I don't mind the implied lesbianism in the show.
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