(Awesomely appropriate icon you have there, by the way.)
Didn't you know that 1950's attitudes were the attitudes of all people for centuries until boom! Minorities started having opinions sometime around 1960?
I find people tend to take hard to one side of the line or the other on Steve's take on homosexuality. There are the people who seem to think homosexuality was invented in the 90's, maybe as early as the 80's -- or at least the first person to accept homosexuality did so around then. (I can't fathom the thought process behind that.)
But I got to say I find even more annoying the people who write him as "What? You think I don't know about gay people? I was in the army, we jerked each other off all the time because, you know, lack of women." Which, obviously, to some degree did happen but I can't stand people acting like army=had some form of gay sex was a forgone conclusion, when it was still the kind of thing you got discharged/court martialed for and representing Steve with a casual attitude of "Well, duh, I've touched another man." gets at me worse than a dose of homophobia (which tends to get resolved fairly quickly in fic anyway).
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Date: 2013-05-06 12:50 am (UTC)Didn't you know that 1950's attitudes were the attitudes of all people for centuries until boom! Minorities started having opinions sometime around 1960?
I find people tend to take hard to one side of the line or the other on Steve's take on homosexuality. There are the people who seem to think homosexuality was invented in the 90's, maybe as early as the 80's -- or at least the first person to accept homosexuality did so around then. (I can't fathom the thought process behind that.)
But I got to say I find even more annoying the people who write him as "What? You think I don't know about gay people? I was in the army, we jerked each other off all the time because, you know, lack of women." Which, obviously, to some degree did happen but I can't stand people acting like army=had some form of gay sex was a forgone conclusion, when it was still the kind of thing you got discharged/court martialed for and representing Steve with a casual attitude of "Well, duh, I've touched another man." gets at me worse than a dose of homophobia (which tends to get resolved fairly quickly in fic anyway).