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I was watching Labyrinth on a loop as a young boy, and I thought David Bowie was awesome, but I turned out... more or less straight. Mostly. Pretty much. I mean, of course Bowie is gorgeous, I'm not an idiot.
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I am also more or less straight, but even I can regonize that Antonio Banderas was a very attractive man.
Oh definitely 🥰 I wanted to be her sidekick/roommate so badly.
Oh boy, when I watched Spartacus my childhood dreams came true.
It's a two-sided coin. As a straight guy, watching Lucy Lawless in the Xena costume made me more hetero than ever.
I never watched it. I remember other kids at school talking about it, but I never watched it. Kind of wished I did now.
Time to sail the high seas. It gets gayer with each episode IIRC. Like longing stares and shit.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh that show had a disproportionate influence on me growing up.
Never watched it. Was she canonically gay? That would have been quite progressive for the time.
People liked to joke about Xena being lesbian back in the days.
She was wink-wink-nudge-nudge "unconfirmed." Very close with a female companion.
don't they literally kiss near the end?
There are more than a few nudges about them being roommates. And as a horny teen, I was there for it.
If anything, Xena turned me more straight
I'm a fairly cishet man and I think she's responsible for my appreciation of queer lit. I'm definitely a little gayer than I otherwise would be.
You misunderstand the math equation, much like how there is nothing manlier than two men (Femboys not accounted for due to unstable variables) there is nothing straighter that someone heterosexual appreciating homosexual tendencies of the opposite sex. Mind you this is operating on simplified variables, trans and bi folks make the math far far messier and I shall leave such matters of gayness and straightness to others who aren't me.
Can confirm. Fucking loved her back in the day
I remember seeing a comment somewhere wishing they would reboot Xena, but lamenting that they would probably make it "too woke" if they did
I don't think there's much they could do to make Xena more "woke" if they tried.
It’s like this one guy that asked “what’s a run of X-Men that has no woke messaging “. Like dude…
"Haha! Good one! ...wait, you're serious!?"
You could make it more woke by replacing Kevin Sorbo with an actual human being, but that only affects the crossovers.
No replace him with a hamburger, no lettuce, extra pickle, grilled onions but not quite grilled right so you can still kinda taste the raw, and a dorito bun
DISAPPOIINTEEDD!!!
A masterclass in acting. A true thespian.
A lesser actor would've just read the stage directions. But he yelled them. Brilliant.
Kevin sorbo was a joke even at the time when he was relevant.i swear his movement to the right was simply so he could eat, because nobody has cared that he still exists in 30+ years.
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If you don't think they could make it more woke you clearly lack in imagination
People who talk like that have only seen pictures from the show, or they watched it a little bit when they were a child and don't remember 99%.
Because Xena and Gabrielle did pretty much everything except the physical deeds. And it was recently confirmed in a comic, where they kiss and say they love eachother.
Hell, you could probably show them the old show with the parts set in modern times and they'd blow their gasket. Becase the reincarnations are the opposite genders for a while.
"recently confirmed in a comic" doesn't really matter; because that's exactly how things get retconned in.
I mean, you're right, but not because of the comic.
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As a straight dude it just made me like bratty women.
I'm a straight dude and it turned me into a lesbian.
I’m a straight dude and it turned me gay for lesbians
My appreciation for snarky, smart-mouthed, tomboys is starting to make sense.
Fuck, that's why!
Natasha Lyonne hits so hard.
And her voice. Her and Emma Stone could get me going reading War and Peace.
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I can't believe that, as a preteen, I thought she was "too manly"
Because a) no she wasn't, she was a straight knockout and b) that's sexist AF wtf preteen me.
She probably could have broken you in half and preteen you wasn't into that
Yeah, we all had a little growing to do as preteens. I tend not to hold it against purple.
I mean, if you're holding it till it's purple, that may be a problem.
holding it against green though is totally valid.
Eh, our tastes change with age. I remember as a teen thinking chest hair on men was icky, but in my 20s I began to love it.
It sounds like you successfully matured, and now you may reap the benefits of Xena's sexy nature.
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