Cleaning out her closet
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Are they gone? Ok, so what you think? Was Finn way out of line? If you didn’t see it, here’s the dish:
Santana had upped the ante on the insults to Finn who was getting sick of it so, in the hallway of McKinley he shouts something like “I know why you’re mean, it’s because you’re a lesbian and in love with Brittany, but you’re not sure she feels the same. You feel bad so you want others to feel bad”, I’m paraphrasing but I think that’s pretty close.
At the same time this is going on, there is a storyline about Sue and her campaign for a city council seat. Sue being Sue, she’s playing Tea Party dirty, by making stuff up about her opponents and using the lies in TV ads. To retaliate, one of her competition outs Santana in his ad. It goes something like “Sue is all for family values. So why then does she have a lesbian as her head cheerleader?”, again with the paraphrasing, I really should take notes. See, it turns out that this competitor’s daughter goes to McKinley and overheard Finn shouting at Santana.
When the episode was over, my partner, who is much smarter than me, said “Finn in a ****, I can’t believe he outed Santana”. It shames me to admit that I didn’t really think he had until I thought about it.
Originally, I was of the mind that he shouted something in the school hall, just like she shouts all the time. It doesn’t mean that Paddy O’Leprechaun actually has a potato mouth. The difference here is that Santana is on a journey, one that is proving painful for her and Finn, a gay ally, just made it more difficult. He may have shouted out something but he had the knowledge that it would hurt and why. That’s just cruel.
Dorothy Snarker has a great article about it here, and it re-itierated CanuckJacq’s article here. Gay allies aren’t just great, we need them, but we also need them to cop the feck on. Just because you know doesn’t mean everyone knows and just because you think it’s all kinds of hunky dory, doesn’t mean everyone will, or that it’s your information to share.
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I think Finn was wrong but he’s a kid, she pushed and pushed and he broke. Not his finest moment by any means.
Rumour Has It/ Someone Like You mash up was just amazing. Naya Rivera just killed it, so emotional – giver her an Emmy. No wonder it’s No 1 in the US charts.
Can’t wait for the next episode. Why oh why must we wait 2 weeks
What Finn did absolutely sickens me.
No matter how much of a bitch Santana was being towards him in that episode, NOTHING gave him the right to out her.
I think what he did was made even more callous by the fact that he saw what coming out in that school did to Kurt. He saw how much Kurt was bullied, ridiculed, beaten up…It’s good to see Finn has come so far since the “faggy” incident back in season one.
Best episode of Glee in a long long time I reckon, and I think the Adele mash-up is hands down the best number that Glee has ever done.
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Although I agree with the fact that outing somebody when they’ve hurt you isn’t morally right, I think a lot of people are taking the biased view on this subject.
First and foremost, we are all of the understanding the Santana is the Head Bitch at the school. She dishes out insults, she mocks, she uses slurs and she gets away with it because the viewers are all laughing at the ice-cold, rapid-fire delivery and are so impressed because they think she’s a badass. Obviously there are some exceptions, but this is important to the point I’m making.
Santana is a lesbian. She isn’t out of the closet, and she’s harbouring a lot of rage and violence because of her feelings. I get it. I’ve been there. I’m not a lesbian, but I am bisexual and I know what it’s like to hear what people say about your sexual orientation and how people perceive you when there’s a new aspect of you on show: Your Sexuality. I’ve been attacked verbally and physically for who I love and who I’m with, but I still manage to see two sides to this episodes’ crucial scene.
Most people speaking about the topic seem to be going with the ‘Finn’s SUCH a %^*&* and a %^*^%in ^&&^$!!!’ etc. But nobody is acknowledging that Santana, though she’s on a journey and though she has to deal with who she is, is a bully. She’s used very vicious language to hurt other people and even spouted some Anti-Semitic slurs at Rachel from time to time.
Why is it okay for her to do this on an episode-to-episode basis? Is it because she’s a lesbian and she’s trying to deal with that? If that’s the reason that so many people are saying she had every right to do all of those things, then that makes those people no better than the people who throw the term ‘Faggot’ and ‘Dyke’ around to hurt others. It might be hard to hear, but it’s true.
Why is it okay for a person to bully other people just because they’re going through a difficult journey? Is that not the reason so many teachers or principals or parents give to us when we’ve been attacked by the school bully for being different? ‘They’re going through some hard stuff right now; they’ve got a lot going on at home’ – Why defend the person who is usually hurting everyone just because you relate to that?
Anyone reading this may think I’m out of line, but I’m not coming in here as a heterosexual woman with no prior knowledge of being bullied or hated for no reason – I’m just like all of you.
I’ve dealt with coming out, I’ve dealt with people’s reactions, I’ve dealt with people attacking me, I’ve dealt with the bitching and the typecasting and the constant need to defend who I am. But not once did I try and use my inner turmoil to hurt other people to take the focus off of me and feel better for a little while. Just think about that a little bit before jumping to the defence of Santana and making excuses because inside, you relate to her. Try to be objective, even if it feels difficult.