31 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Most of the appreciation of ZT is because of his hotness and his actual ability to seem to want to act on Days.  Something Freddie was lacking.   

If you really want to watch Freddie/Alyssa there are some with Chandler and some other co stars that are better than Freddie Smith just talking to us for 38 min himself about his thoughts on Will Smith.  Honestly, the only one I ever got through entirely was the one with Deidre Hall and that was because of Dee not them obviously.

Gotcha. So, for the most part part, it's based on his physical attributes then, lol! Going back to DAYS, the whole Leo/Chad thing was just odd in the sense that I can't think of a 100% heterosexual male (based on what I've learned with Alfred Kinsey's theory despite his research bias) who is more than willing to get naked for a gay dude to help his gay friends. And then for Abby to be like, "Oh, okay! I'll knock on Leo's hotel door because I'm an ally!"

To me, I just don't like how LGBTQIA+ are represented on this show. To me, I kind of feel that if Ron C. were to introduce a transgender transitioning from FTM, then he would develop a storyline where that transgender character is doing porn. I don't mean that as insulting, but to me, it just seems like Ron C. takes those stereotypes that society develops without a true understanding based on their heteronormativity and makes those stereotypes come into light.

Edited March 31, 20223 yr by Noel

Chad being willing to get butt-ass naked in bed with Leo is just Ron and the gang stroking it tbh. It's ridiculous and tacky, and Ron's been doing it for years.

I don't mind that RC has cultivated a rep for objectifying and sexualizing the str8 men of his soaps. That's what they're often there for, for both female and male audiences. I mind when they're reduced to eye candy or fetish objects while being dumbed down to idiocy, and I mind when the actual LGBT characters who could be equally sexualized leads are turned into camp events or relative bystanders who, it's implied, are lasciviously eyeing or preying upon the sr8 leads.

12 minutes ago, Vee said:

I mind when the actual LGBT characters who could be equally sexualized leads are turned into camp events or relative bystanders who, it's implied, are lasciviously eyeing or preying upon the sr8 leads.

Ooooo.

Yeah, and that's what I'm trying to convey from my own state of mind. To me, I just feel like Ron C. is that photographer or videographer from main stream media (MSM) that you would see during Pride events. In other words, they concentrate and focus on the skimpy dudes wearing bikinis and neon pink feather boas, but yet, they don't focus on a story about a lesbian couple (one being a cancer survivor) who both adopted a child once sexually and physically abused by the child's biological father. As depressing as that is, we don't see or read stories like that. Rather, society goes off by the "acceptable" heteronormative standard of how they view the LGBTQ population to be.

Edited March 31, 20223 yr by Noel

1 hour ago, Vee said:

I mind when the actual LGBT characters who could be equally sexualized leads are turned into camp events or relative bystanders who, it's implied, are lasciviously eyeing or preying upon the sr8 leads.

This. So much this. 

 

Ron Carlivati is what Kathy Griffin would call a "bad gay."

God, I'm so behind on actually watching DAYS that I'm now at the scenes where Craig finds Leo in bed with Chad. I actually loathe Leo calling Chad "Chadwick", but I at least appreciate that they gave him some brains to see through what was obviously the dumbest scheme of the century. It's odd for Will and Sonny (two gay guys) to assume that another gay guy wouldn't see through a straight guy trying to fake "lust" for the d. Come on now... I can't believe the headwriter is actually gay here.

 

Onto April...

Edited June 4, 20223 yr by te.

On 4/1/2022 at 12:25 PM, Khan said:

Ron Carlivati is what Kathy Griffin would call a "bad gay."

Thank you. 

 

Meanwhile, on a brighter note, Jake and Ava 4EVA! Those two shackin' up in that sh!thole studio apartment is the world's greatest orgasm to life. I'm rooting for them. Don't break my heart, DAYS. Don't break my heart, but this a March DAYS 2022 discussion thread, lol!

Edited June 4, 20223 yr by Noel