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Boo to the Office and Rorschach's Sexuality
I came thisclose to taking a half day off work. I didn't because I'm forever a good girl who doesn't play hooky for no good reason. I've tried to be a bad girl, but I have such guilt. It's pathetic. So, I ask the time gods if we can hurry this effin' week along a big faster. I'm sick of this office. Yes, yes... I should be happy I have a job. And I am. I'd just like a job where I can work from home so I don't have to see John's stinking face. I'd say he's a poopy-head, but he's more than that. He's a first class asshole of the highest degree. He said good morning and held the door open for me when I got into the office just before 8:00. All I wanted to do was turn around and punch him in the face, and then kick him in the balls when he hit the ground. Scum. I walked upstairs and Payroll girl motioned me into her office. She said that she had a dream that I let her borrow my gun. In the dream, she took my gun and shot John in the leg because he was being a dick. See, it's not just me. I could go into the back story of why we all hate him so much, but it would take too much time and effort. Effort I do not want to sink into the black hole that is John's life. I think Elenore is waiting for him to kick the bucket. He's almost seventy, and he drinks like a fish. Surely he's due to die any time now. Is it bad that I want to punch a seventy-year-old man in the face and then kick him while he's down?
Maybe my fangirly lurv of Rorschach has infected me with absolutist tendencies and a need to viciously defend my own personal morality. This would include throwing people down elevator shafts, which I might do if there were any in this building. Look...
Gah. He's ripping a piece of cloth. Oh, Walter. Why so hot? Why so hot even with a nasty bruise covering your cheek?
I've read several interesting articles on Rorschach's sexuality. I think most of you know that I lean toward het pairings, though I don't think I've ever shied away from a slash pairing if there is substantial evidence in the source material for it. Quinn/Blaylock and Butch/Vichous in BDB are two pairings I adore. That being said, I don't really like Rorschach/Nite Owl II or Walter/Dan. At first, I thought it was because I tend to glom onto het pairings. The pairing never felt right to me. I think of them as friends. Walter (Rorschach) has no friends, but he has this partnership with Dan that has turned into a friendship. I like that about them--that they are friends and that it makes Rorschach vulnerable. But when romance comes into the equation, I just shut down.
And then I read a thoughtful blurb from someone on a message board. I wish I could find it again because it summed up Rorschach's fear of sexuality so perfectly. The basic gist of it was that this person believed Rorschach to be hetrosexual. In the comic (and somewhat in the movie), Rorschach expresses a belief that homosexuality is wrong, unnatural, immortal, whatever. Emotion never comes into this, though; he just condemns gays/lesbians as immoral people who deserve whatever punishment they get (a la Silhouette). However, there are several moments in which he mentions intimacy and/or sex between a man and a woman. He is quite obviously disgusted, even revolted by it. It makes him feel uncomfortable. This person asserted that the strong emotions Rorschach feels when he comes into contact with women or heterosexual relationships indicates that he is repressing his own heterosexual tendencies. Just as some people who repress homosexual tendencies tend to go off the deep end and physically abuse someone who is homosexual. Rorschach's stunted emotional growth, discomfort around women, and aversion to sex is most likely due to his mother being a prostitute. He grew up viewing sex between a man and a woman as something dirty, filthy, disgusting, and disreputable. Now that he has cemented his 'morals' as an adult, he rebels against his own body and mind desiring what repulsed him as a child. Then again, maybe I'm picking and choosing arguments because I just don't 'get' Rorschach/Dan. Thoughts? Or am I the only nutter spending time thinking about things like this? Rorschach/Dan is generally accepted by everyone as being practically canon that I feel like I'm missing something. Or maybe I'm reading too deep into it.
Maybe my fangirly lurv of Rorschach has infected me with absolutist tendencies and a need to viciously defend my own personal morality. This would include throwing people down elevator shafts, which I might do if there were any in this building. Look...
Gah. He's ripping a piece of cloth. Oh, Walter. Why so hot? Why so hot even with a nasty bruise covering your cheek?
I've read several interesting articles on Rorschach's sexuality. I think most of you know that I lean toward het pairings, though I don't think I've ever shied away from a slash pairing if there is substantial evidence in the source material for it. Quinn/Blaylock and Butch/Vichous in BDB are two pairings I adore. That being said, I don't really like Rorschach/Nite Owl II or Walter/Dan. At first, I thought it was because I tend to glom onto het pairings. The pairing never felt right to me. I think of them as friends. Walter (Rorschach) has no friends, but he has this partnership with Dan that has turned into a friendship. I like that about them--that they are friends and that it makes Rorschach vulnerable. But when romance comes into the equation, I just shut down.
And then I read a thoughtful blurb from someone on a message board. I wish I could find it again because it summed up Rorschach's fear of sexuality so perfectly. The basic gist of it was that this person believed Rorschach to be hetrosexual. In the comic (and somewhat in the movie), Rorschach expresses a belief that homosexuality is wrong, unnatural, immortal, whatever. Emotion never comes into this, though; he just condemns gays/lesbians as immoral people who deserve whatever punishment they get (a la Silhouette). However, there are several moments in which he mentions intimacy and/or sex between a man and a woman. He is quite obviously disgusted, even revolted by it. It makes him feel uncomfortable. This person asserted that the strong emotions Rorschach feels when he comes into contact with women or heterosexual relationships indicates that he is repressing his own heterosexual tendencies. Just as some people who repress homosexual tendencies tend to go off the deep end and physically abuse someone who is homosexual. Rorschach's stunted emotional growth, discomfort around women, and aversion to sex is most likely due to his mother being a prostitute. He grew up viewing sex between a man and a woman as something dirty, filthy, disgusting, and disreputable. Now that he has cemented his 'morals' as an adult, he rebels against his own body and mind desiring what repulsed him as a child. Then again, maybe I'm picking and choosing arguments because I just don't 'get' Rorschach/Dan. Thoughts? Or am I the only nutter spending time thinking about things like this? Rorschach/Dan is generally accepted by everyone as being practically canon that I feel like I'm missing something. Or maybe I'm reading too deep into it.
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Sorry, that graphic hypnotized me for...a...second....
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