Okay first off, season 13 is okay. I wasn't laughing as hard or as often but meh, I enjoyed it. I didn't watch it when it was on air so I just watched it with a friend on Hulu.
My best friend and I are roommates. He's gay, not religious but comes from a...traditional Dominican background. We're from New York City. While the idea of machismo isn't too prevalent in his family since he was raised by his mom and has 3 sisters, his dad is more "old school" or whatever else to call it. I still remembering him getting mad at the idea of me sleeping over because he taught I was gay, this was probably during Junior High School days too.
Well anyway, just wow. I loved everything about the season finale. My friend did as well. Anyone who knows him well thinks of him as similar to Mac. Gay but IASIP brings up an excellent point. Gay men on TV are shown as very into rough sex/dungeon lifestyle or into stuff like RuPaul's Drag Race. Yes we know people like that but he is not. He's some nerd, like me, we work, play games during the weekends and look forward to D&D on the weekends and date who we like. I'm straight myself but I was still very moved by the final part especially having a father who has walked out on my life not because of my sexuality but because of him not wanting a child. Of course I don't feel the same things my friends feel but man, I was actually crying by the end of the episode.
The woman dancing with mac representing his religious side, his relationship with women, his sexuality and how it all conflicts with each other, in his mind, was just so amazing to watch. He wants to be sexually attracted to women because that what his Catholic guilt is telling him is right. He's gay and when Mac tells Frank he dreamed of dancing with a sexy woman angel all Frank can say is "Those Catholics fucked you up" is just astute even though delivered in a joking way. Mac just wants to be loved by someone that he tries very hard and fails constantly to win his fathers approval, his friends accept that he's gay but never want to hear about it and Frank admits that he just doesn't get him and even less so with him being gay. Yet while his own dad walks out on him, Frank stays, tears up and says "I get it" and I'm just there watching and thinking "Wow, this is not what I expected but just wow."
I'm not even sure what my point is but this episode has really been stuck in my head. Maybe it's the fact I see this too often in my line of work. I work with homeless LGBT teens and just seeing all those sad faces, yes some are gay, some are bi but they're all abandoned children because of their sexuality. It just really struck me.
I felt like Frank at the end of the performance.
My best friend and I are roommates. He's gay, not religious but comes from a...traditional Dominican background. We're from New York City. While the idea of machismo isn't too prevalent in his family since he was raised by his mom and has 3 sisters, his dad is more "old school" or whatever else to call it. I still remembering him getting mad at the idea of me sleeping over because he taught I was gay, this was probably during Junior High School days too.
Well anyway, just wow. I loved everything about the season finale. My friend did as well. Anyone who knows him well thinks of him as similar to Mac. Gay but IASIP brings up an excellent point. Gay men on TV are shown as very into rough sex/dungeon lifestyle or into stuff like RuPaul's Drag Race. Yes we know people like that but he is not. He's some nerd, like me, we work, play games during the weekends and look forward to D&D on the weekends and date who we like. I'm straight myself but I was still very moved by the final part especially having a father who has walked out on my life not because of my sexuality but because of him not wanting a child. Of course I don't feel the same things my friends feel but man, I was actually crying by the end of the episode.
The woman dancing with mac representing his religious side, his relationship with women, his sexuality and how it all conflicts with each other, in his mind, was just so amazing to watch. He wants to be sexually attracted to women because that what his Catholic guilt is telling him is right. He's gay and when Mac tells Frank he dreamed of dancing with a sexy woman angel all Frank can say is "Those Catholics fucked you up" is just astute even though delivered in a joking way. Mac just wants to be loved by someone that he tries very hard and fails constantly to win his fathers approval, his friends accept that he's gay but never want to hear about it and Frank admits that he just doesn't get him and even less so with him being gay. Yet while his own dad walks out on him, Frank stays, tears up and says "I get it" and I'm just there watching and thinking "Wow, this is not what I expected but just wow."
I'm not even sure what my point is but this episode has really been stuck in my head. Maybe it's the fact I see this too often in my line of work. I work with homeless LGBT teens and just seeing all those sad faces, yes some are gay, some are bi but they're all abandoned children because of their sexuality. It just really struck me.
I felt like Frank at the end of the performance.
