Whats interesting to me is that in both cases the only reason they could get away with it was the appeal to white cis men.
If it was a black guy and a white woman it would have caused riots.
If it was two dudes it wouldn’t have made it to air.
We should keep in mind that a lot of the progress we’ve made the last 30 years has been exploiting cis male sexuality. Maybe we could’ve avoided the far right resurgence if Netflix had a hit tv show about a sexy Syrian woman with a thing for blondes living in Berlin.
Uhura-Kirk in 68 was very political too, interracial TV kiss (not strictly the first).
Whats interesting to me is that in both cases the only reason they could get away with it was the appeal to white cis men.
If it was a black guy and a white woman it would have caused riots.
If it was two dudes it wouldn’t have made it to air.
We should keep in mind that a lot of the progress we’ve made the last 30 years has been exploiting cis male sexuality. Maybe we could’ve avoided the far right resurgence if Netflix had a hit tv show about a sexy Syrian woman with a thing for blondes living in Berlin.
World is a fuck.