Ghosts S4E11
Saturday, 15 February 2025 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queer_scribblingRemember the virgin joke post? I had hoped that was going to be the end of this topic, but unfortunately, it wasn't.
My family got around to S4E11, which mostly is not about this issue. Thorfinn attends a therapy session to address the abandonment he still struggled with on the anniversary of him being left behind in the New World (and this episode is about him moving on, whatever), and the ending was a bunch of the rest of the ghosts chiming in within a group ghost therapy session.
Sass' contribution: I'm a virgin.
Sam has to pretend she's got all of their issues going on in order to voice them, so the therapist looks a bit confused as he answers: Aren't you married?
Sam: Yeah, isn't that weird?
...
I don't even know how to convey the internal sigh, glare, disappointment mashup going on. The therapist's disbelief that a married woman might be a virgin. The deflection as Sam tries to come up with a non-ghost answer that goes for how weird that idea is. It was one of the ending contributions, so it feels like the last bit of humor getting in at the very end of the episode. (So, more 'the funny thing to focus on is an adult virgin' going on.)
While virgin doesn't equal ace necessarily, it feels like this is a world that doesn't have any awareness of asexuality. Granted, there's a possibility that this may come up in future episodes, but currently, there haven't been any signs of awareness. I know this is a 30-minute comedy show once a week, and it's not trying to be a sweeping educational show here. Still, after spending some time on Isaac coming to terms with attitudes around homosexuality changing from his lifetime [1770s] and coming out, a part of me wishes that someone could nod to the ace community in some way.
Sass' contribution: I'm a virgin.
Sam has to pretend she's got all of their issues going on in order to voice them, so the therapist looks a bit confused as he answers: Aren't you married?
Sam: Yeah, isn't that weird?
...
I don't even know how to convey the internal sigh, glare, disappointment mashup going on. The therapist's disbelief that a married woman might be a virgin. The deflection as Sam tries to come up with a non-ghost answer that goes for how weird that idea is. It was one of the ending contributions, so it feels like the last bit of humor getting in at the very end of the episode. (So, more 'the funny thing to focus on is an adult virgin' going on.)
While virgin doesn't equal ace necessarily, it feels like this is a world that doesn't have any awareness of asexuality. Granted, there's a possibility that this may come up in future episodes, but currently, there haven't been any signs of awareness. I know this is a 30-minute comedy show once a week, and it's not trying to be a sweeping educational show here. Still, after spending some time on Isaac coming to terms with attitudes around homosexuality changing from his lifetime [1770s] and coming out, a part of me wishes that someone could nod to the ace community in some way.
