And secondly, if they sincerely wanted to make a statement about the unimportance of privileged white men, they would have fridged Josh, instead of spending two seasons setting him up as Quentin’s more heterosexual, more neurotypical REPLACEMENT.
Josh is the textbook white straight cis neurotypical male self-insert Gary Stu. He’s a mediocre white man who requires constant validation.
Every single Josh scene goes something like this:
Josh: I know I’m not important or special .
Core Castmember: You’re wrong, Josh. You’re actually very important and special. I’m sorry I didn’t realize it sooner, and give you the validation you deserve. The show constantly rewards him for his mediocrity. He gets a giant werewolf penis, and then he gets to angst about his giant werewolf penis. He gets a hero’s journey. The show even hands him naked!Margo on a silver fucking platter like she’s some kind of fucking participation trophy.
OH MY GOD SO MUCH THIS
My partner and I LOATHED Josh, and we were just fucking baffled why he beame a regular this season and WTF is he doing being pulled into the middle of this established group! -- Oh. It's because Quentin has been killed off permanently. THAT'S why. It's totally the whole Xander/Buffy dynamic all over again -- the schlubby white guy who seemingly has nothing to contribute is really the Heart and Soul of the group (why), because he Truly Loves the Strong Female (or at least wants to fuck her), so he gets rewarded with her love after she realizes that no, she is not actually worthy of his devotion. But at least Buffy never actually AWARDED her to Xander. (Altho then they went on to pull much the same shit with Spike, but I digress.) And I REALLY don't like them replacing Penny 40, the acerbic character who tried to hide his heart so hard and fell for Kady, with Penny 23, who is obsessed with Julia on frankly a creepy level and just gets more and more fucking obsessed. And then they made Penny 40 some kind of milquetoast spirit guide as well! WTF, show, WHAT?
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Date: 2019-04-21 11:00 pm (UTC)Josh is the textbook white straight cis neurotypical male self-insert Gary Stu. He’s a mediocre white man who requires constant validation.
Every single Josh scene goes something like this:
Josh: I know I’m not important or special .
Core Castmember: You’re wrong, Josh. You’re actually very important and special. I’m sorry I didn’t realize it sooner, and give you the validation you deserve.
The show constantly rewards him for his mediocrity. He gets a giant werewolf penis, and then he gets to angst about his giant werewolf penis. He gets a hero’s journey. The show even hands him naked!Margo on a silver fucking platter like she’s some kind of fucking participation trophy.
OH MY GOD
SO MUCH THIS
My partner and I LOATHED Josh, and we were just fucking baffled why he beame a regular this season and WTF is he doing being pulled into the middle of this established group! -- Oh. It's because Quentin has been killed off permanently. THAT'S why. It's totally the whole Xander/Buffy dynamic all over again -- the schlubby white guy who seemingly has nothing to contribute is really the Heart and Soul of the group (why), because he Truly Loves the Strong Female (or at least wants to fuck her), so he gets rewarded with her love after she realizes that no, she is not actually worthy of his devotion. But at least Buffy never actually AWARDED her to Xander. (Altho then they went on to pull much the same shit with Spike, but I digress.) And I REALLY don't like them replacing Penny 40, the acerbic character who tried to hide his heart so hard and fell for Kady, with Penny 23, who is obsessed with Julia on frankly a creepy level and just gets more and more fucking obsessed. And then they made Penny 40 some kind of milquetoast spirit guide as well! WTF, show, WHAT?