One for Sorrow

Thanks--and you're defintitely right, my own thoughts on historical context were definitely very limited. I hadn't thought about it in quite the terms you used before, but I think it's very accurate, that homoeroticism is simply often unacknowleged, which is not so difficult as we tend to pretend it is today. It's almost like just making people self-conscious about things that were previously just not something they felt they had to think about. I think sometimes in modern TV etc. that can really hurt the dynamic. You'll have a relationship that might have homoerotic overtones but they wouldn't be acknowleged by the characters. But when the audience picks up on it the show sometimes tries to push it--making it slashy. Not that there's anything wrong with slashy, but it can get to the point where it's not about the characters anymore. Then the slash suddenly isn't as interesting because the relationship isn't.