Sunday, May 16, 2010

Whose 'Phobia' Is It, Anyway?

If I were to tell you that a Newsweek critic named Ramin Satoodeh caught all sorts of heck for saying that, while a straight actor can play gay, it never works the other way around; and were I to further tell you that pint-sized powerhouse Kristin Chenowyth was so affronted by what she saw as this critic's obvious "homophobia" that she felt compelled to publicly rebut it; and were I to then add that West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin criticized both Satoodeh and Chenowyth for "missing the point," that apparently being that
The problem doesn't have anything to do with sexual preference. The problem has everything to do with the fact that we know too much about each other and we care too much about what we know;
what would you think were I to then tell you something that both Chenowyth and Sorkin neglected to mention, an essential piece of the puzzle that Richard Ouzounian reveals here: i.e. that Satoodeh himself is gay?

Would you, like me, think that perhaps "the problem" does have to do with sexual preference--with Satoodeh's, that is--and that perhaps he, being robustly gay, is uncomfortable seeing gay men on stage and screen pretending to be hetero when they're not? In which case might this possibly be interpreted as a not-too-well-closeted case of this critic's "heterophobia"?

Just a thought.

1 comment:

Backseat Blogger said...

scaramouche... they are all wrong.

the profession is called acting. Actors act. if an actor is good at his job, he'll be believable in anything he does.

if he's a bad actor like say keanu reeves then he won't be believable no matter how hard he tries.