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:: Today's soundtrack: New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" ::
Do you know what's got me all riled up now? Well, let set a little stage...
Who here watches the television show ER? The latest thing about this show that has got the young girls all upons is the relationship between the two characters of Ray and Neela. They are both doctors at the ER and when Ray needed a new roommate a while back and female coworker Neela needed a place to stay, she begrudgingly accepted his tiny apartment on the premise that most of the time they work opposing shifts and would rarely bother each other. Neela is involved with another doctor who is now over seas, and Ray had a string of young groupies batting their eyes at him when he moon lighted in a rock band. Yes, life was good, until Neela's man came back only to say he had to leave once again and Ray had to quit his band due to doctor duties thus cutting off his steady stream of flings. Neela and Ray starting hanging out more and they STARTED TO FIGHT A WEIRD ATTRACTION FOR EACH OTHER.
That last part there? THAT's what's bothering the hell out of me. Well, that one piece from one particular television show is not specifically what is bothering me, but it is a prime example of the issue. My problem is this: that in the media whether it be on a television program or a movie or whatever, always seems to depict that a man and a woman cannot seem to share a space of twenty square feet for a duration of ten minutes without developing an attraction for each other. Unless they are brother and sister or some other blood relation, it doesn't really seem to matter who they are, they will get the hots for each other and this drives me insane.
Why do guy characters and girl characters always always have to have a jones for each other? Can't there just be a plain old ordinary friendship once in a while? I happen to be friends with quite a few people of the opposite sex and have never in my life harboured a secret crush on 95% of them! And you know, it's pretty cool to have that "we're just really good friends" relationship with someone of the opposite sex. There is no awkward tension, you stop putting on appearances and posturing and you can just sit back, relax, and actually be yourself and have a good time. You don't have to worry about looking good or saying something stupid because your friends don't care. And where better to go for advice on dating? Who do you ask about what's an appropriate present for your girlfriend or how to get a girl to like you or the inside scoop on a girl's brain (and I don't mean that in the "Tina I can smell your brain" sort of brain scoop.... oh, you know what I mean...) than straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
Once again, let me establish for the record that I am not some big opposer to love and relationships. I think love is great. Yay, love. But not everyone has to get all lusty over someone just because they're a girl sharing their square-footage. Men and women CAN work together and yes, even LIVE together WITHOUT and sort of attraction whatsoever, so why oh why do they always have to hook up on television and in the movies? Why can't we see a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman sharing a screen without succumbing to the smoochies? I don't know about YOU, but MY life sure as heck isn't filled with so much love triangle drama.
Let me leave you with this little tidbit from the other night when watching an episode of the aforementioned ER. I happened to watch the last episode with one of my friends who happens to be a girl. As Neela was packing her bags to move out of Ray's apartment due to not wanting to give in to their weird attraction, these characters had an awkward moment where they had to squeeze past each other in a narrow hallway. At this moment, my friend said out loud pretty much what I was feeling but lacked the words: "If she kisses him, I'm going to punch you."
William (a friend of the just friends)
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