2w ago

The real culprit

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As a straight dude it just made me like bratty women.
- My appreciation for snarky, smart-mouthed, tomboys is starting to make sense.
  
  Wanna hang out? Lol
  
  Huh.
  
  Natasha Lyonne hits so hard.
  
  Fuck, that's why!
- I'm a straight dude and it turned me into a lesbian.
  
  I’m a straight dude and it turned me gay for lesbians
I remember seeing a comment somewhere wishing they would reboot Xena, but lamenting that they would probably make it "too woke" if they did
I don't think there's much they could do to make Xena more "woke" if they tried.
- You could make it more woke by replacing Kevin Sorbo with an actual human being, but that only affects the crossovers.
  
  Kevin sorbo was a joke even at the time when he was relevant.i swear his movement to the right was simply so he could eat, because nobody has cared that he still exists in 30+ years.
  
  DISAPPOIINTEEDD!!!
  
  No replace him with a hamburger, no lettuce, extra pickle, grilled onions but not quite grilled right so you can still kinda taste the raw, and a dorito bun
- People who talk like that have only seen pictures from the show, or they watched it a little bit when they were a child and don't remember 99%.
  Because Xena and Gabrielle did pretty much everything except the physical deeds. And it was recently confirmed in a comic, where they kiss and say they love eachother.
  Hell, you could probably show them the old show with the parts set in modern times and they'd blow their gasket. Becase the reincarnations are the opposite genders for a while.
  
  Yo I should give this show another go. I remember watching it when I wasn't even a teenager, thinking it was kind of silly. But maybe it's good as an adult?
  I'll give it a few episodes maybe.
  
  "recently confirmed in a comic" doesn't really matter; because that's exactly how things get retconned in.
  I mean, you're right, but not because of the comic.
- It’s like this one guy that asked “what’s a run of X-Men that has no woke messaging “. Like dude…
  
  "Haha! Good one! ...wait, you're serious!?"
- If you don't think they could make it more woke you clearly lack in imagination
- Put a chick in it and make her gay.
  
  Out another diverse chick in it and make her gay and lame.
  Ftfy.
If anything, Xena turned me more straight
- I'm a fairly cishet man and I think she's responsible for my appreciation of queer lit. I'm definitely a little gayer than I otherwise would be.
  
  You misunderstand the math equation, much like how there is nothing manlier than two men (Femboys not accounted for due to unstable variables) there is nothing straighter that someone heterosexual appreciating homosexual tendencies of the opposite sex. Mind you this is operating on simplified variables, trans and bi folks make the math far far messier and I shall leave such matters of gayness and straightness to others who aren't me.
It's a two-sided coin. As a straight guy, watching Lucy Lawless in the Xena costume made me more hetero than ever.
I can't believe that, as a preteen, I thought she was "too manly"
\ Because a) no she wasn't, she was a straight knockout and b) that's sexist AF wtf preteen me.
- She probably could have broken you in half and preteen you wasn't into that
  
  Yeah, we all had a little growing to do as preteens. I tend not to hold it against purple.
- Eh, our tastes change with age. I remember as a teen thinking chest hair on men was icky, but in my 20s I began to love it.
  It sounds like you successfully matured, and now you may reap the benefits of Xena's sexy nature.
- This isn’t where I parked my car
- Club Vandersexxx
How many young lesbians do you think watched this show vs horny straight boys?
- As a straight, horny boy at the time, she basically ushered me into manhood.
- Yes
- i know of at least 2 women who realized their sexual orientation through xena
- The ratio of unicorns to leprechauns
- She and Gabrielle (and their sexual energy, which might be completely imagined by me) definitely had an impact on me. I've had many wet dreams of those two, without me or anyone else being involved. I'm a bisexual dude but my adult content watch history is 99% lesbian stuff. Specifically where one or both is extremely into it and orgasms, for real, at least once. No porn industry fake lesbian shit, and no men involved in any way.
If Calypso was a boy call me gay all day.
- I'm the same way with Thor. I'm not gay at all, but id let it happen. He's a sexy man regardless of interests.
Counterpoint
I was watching Labyrinth on a loop as a young boy, and I thought David Bowie was awesome, but I turned out... more or less straight. Mostly. Pretty much. I mean, of course Bowie is gorgeous, I'm not an idiot.
- I am also more or less straight, but even I can regonize that Antonio Banderas was a very attractive man.
  
  The fuck do you mean, "was?"
  
  I like George Clooney, he was batman. ....now looking back that movie was a little horned up.
When I wanted to be Gabby.
Can confirm. Fucking loved her back in the day
Oh boy, when I watched Spartacus my childhood dreams came true.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh that show had a disproportionate influence on me growing up.
Oh definitely 🥰 I wanted to be her sidekick/roommate so badly.
- I just wanted her sidekick.... As a young boy that seemed to be more my speed.
  Xena was a bit much for me when I was watching Xena on TV.... At like... 5? 10? IDK. What year is it?
I never watched it. I remember other kids at school talking about it, but I never watched it. Kind of wished I did now.
- Time to sail the high seas. It gets gayer with each episode IIRC. Like longing stares and shit.
Never watched it. Was she canonically gay? That would have been quite progressive for the time.
- She was wink-wink-nudge-nudge "unconfirmed." Very close with a female companion.
  
  There are more than a few nudges about them being roommates. And as a horny teen, I was there for it.
  
  don't they literally kiss near the end?
- People liked to joke about Xena being lesbian back in the days.

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