Every once in a while I think about starting a list. And then I think, no. Because I'd like to discuss the whole universe, and fic, and vids, and everything, and inevitably someone will bitch if it's an open list (you're so meeeeeen) or someone will be a flagrant diva and quash discussion, and if it's a private list, then no one will talk after the initial flurry. So I gave up that thought. I dunno.
I've been thinking about doing a variation on lierdumoa's my Dom is... my Brian is... post. Maybe I should.
We can dissect the varying approaches to Dom...misunderstood or borderline psychopath?
Can he be both? ;-) The thing I think rubs me the wrong way most in this fandom is that yet again, we have the big mean ugly mean guy syndrome (all the tough ones are big and mean and ugly and mean!) and the pretty frail girly suffering angelic beloved guy syndrome. I hate that. I actually think, in a lot of ways, that Dom is way more sensitive and emotional than Brian is -- you see it especially with Mia, the way he relates to his team, especially in that dinner scene. But he's just big ugly mean guy to 90% of the fandom, because Brian is so pretty and sweet and frail and the "little guy" (nemmind that he's taller). Gah. So, anyway, I think Dom can be both misunderstood and a psycho. He's got lots of facets. (Though not a psycopath -- psychotic, maybe, but not -path, since that indicates an entirely different behavior set and relates strongly to sociopathology, which he is decidedly not.)
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I've been thinking about doing a variation on lierdumoa's my Dom is... my Brian is... post. Maybe I should.
We can dissect the varying approaches to Dom...misunderstood or borderline psychopath?
Can he be both? ;-) The thing I think rubs me the wrong way most in this fandom is that yet again, we have the big mean ugly mean guy syndrome (all the tough ones are big and mean and ugly and mean!) and the pretty frail girly suffering angelic beloved guy syndrome. I hate that. I actually think, in a lot of ways, that Dom is way more sensitive and emotional than Brian is -- you see it especially with Mia, the way he relates to his team, especially in that dinner scene. But he's just big ugly mean guy to 90% of the fandom, because Brian is so pretty and sweet and frail and the "little guy" (nemmind that he's taller). Gah. So, anyway, I think Dom can be both misunderstood and a psycho. He's got lots of facets. (Though not a psycopath -- psychotic, maybe, but not -path, since that indicates an entirely different behavior set and relates strongly to sociopathology, which he is decidedly not.)