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thoughts on kissing in visual media
Dec. 7th, 2018 02:17 pmA good few years ago, vesperregina and I had a conversation about how heterosexual kisses are usually depicted in onscreen media, sparked by a tangent I went on in a liveblog of the Star Trek: TOS episode Space Seed. I'm archiving that train of thought here from tumblr at her request!
( Where are the characters' hands? )
My current thoughts on this matter, super super briefly: it...is obviously much more nuanced than this (and, after all, the episode I spoke of above was made in the sixties) - but it is, I think, still broadly true that in onscreen heterosexual kisses, the woman is often subtly shown as the less-assertive partner. So subtly, in fact, that we hardly notice it at all. Let's have more ladies directing their kisses.And more lady Dommes, yes good.
( Where are the characters' hands? )
My current thoughts on this matter, super super briefly: it...is obviously much more nuanced than this (and, after all, the episode I spoke of above was made in the sixties) - but it is, I think, still broadly true that in onscreen heterosexual kisses, the woman is often subtly shown as the less-assertive partner. So subtly, in fact, that we hardly notice it at all. Let's have more ladies directing their kisses.
