The awesome Toshiko Sato

[tencrush]

A QUESTION FOR MY TORCHWOOD PALS REGARDING TOSH IN GREEKS BEARING GIFTS

[Poll #1439526]


The reason I ask is because I am reasonably familiar with old skool lesbian pulp fiction novels (umm... here, have a brief introduction), the gist of which is usually something along the lines of an innocent girl being Tempted Into Lesbian Experimentation by an Evil Lesbian, 100+ pages of reasonably tame sex ensue until finally the innocent girl is rescued from the Evils of Sapphic Desire by a Manly Man who Forgives her her Disgusting Aberration and maybe even decides to touch her down there if the thought of it doesn't gross him out him too much. The End. Anyway, that's what Greeks Bearing Gifts was to me, a lesbian pulp novel. And I wonder if one has to be familiar with the genre in order to see it that way, or if it struck more people just generally as kind of a squicky storyline. Feel free to comment and let me know.

Comments

[alba17.livejournal.com]

I can't even answer that poll because nothing in the show indicates the answer. GBG is the only time Tosh shows same-sex attraction in the show though. She seems pretty open to it too. I think her sexual response to Mary is genuine. Whether she'd label herself as bi as a result is an open question. It's more fun to think of her as bi, so that's what I prefer, but I don't think there's any evidence one way or the other. Unless you take her more numerous relationships with men to mean she was basically straight. So, do you see Jack as the Manly Man saving Tosh? There doesn't seem to be any sexual subtext to their relationship in GBG.

[tencrush]

No, I don't particularly see Jack that way, it's just that the whole storyline has those connotations for me and I wonder if that's because I am aware of the trope or if it's a more general thing. It's hard to look at something like this story and imagine you're unaware of the trope and see what you would make of it in that case.