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laurajv ([personal profile] laurajv) wrote2014-08-18 10:30 pm
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a starsky & hutch riddle for you, fandom

I'm listening to the TWiB live feed from Ferguson and I'm so tired right now. So I'm going to think about S/H for a bit.

Here's a thing. In "Death in a Different Place", Starsky's mentor is revealed to be a closeted gay man, and Starsky deals with this WAY worse than Hutch. Partly, I mean, Starsky has just lost someone he cared a lot for and was close to and looked up to; he'd be emotionally reeling no matter what -- but even with that taken into account, he seems noticeably more...offput by homosexuality than Hutch is, to my eye.

So why in so much S/H is Starsky the one who is more open and accepting of his desires?
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[personal profile] tazlet 2014-08-19 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Because Hutch is a chill blond repressed midwestern WASP of Scandinavian descent. (We all know about those people from Wisconsin).