I'm interested in different perspectives.
"Women are weaker and smaller on average, and they get pregnant, which is a dangerous process for our species. Women are therefore more sexually selective, while men are more eager. This paints the entire heterosexual dating game and explains the pursuer-pursued dynamic."
What would you say to this?
"Women are weaker and smaller on average, and they get pregnant, which is a dangerous process for our species. Women are therefore more sexually selective, while men are more eager. This paints the entire heterosexual dating game."
Do you think this explains the pursuer-pursued dynamic?
Spoilers!
So Oz kills Vic. Obviously Oz is an absolute dirty scummy beast, and the ending is gut wrenching. But I disagree with all the folks who say that he was gaslighting the audience all along, that this is what he was all along, and that he never cared about Vic and was always going to kill him. I think Oz was a complex character. A twisted freak, but more complex than "just 100% evil".
A lot of people seem to forget that Oz was essentially as psychologically fucked in the end as it was probably possible for him to be. He was fucked. He was forced to see what he did and his mom's underlying hate, and imo he literally kind of broke. He wasn't just his same old self that he always was, his decisions in the end were not part of some grand rational plan he had all along. His world crumbled, and all he could do was to double the hell down.
Until then, he did have a semblance of humanity in him. Heck, he let Vic go in episode 3. His self-image contained some degree of "I'm not a bad guy", except it was all built upon delusions. Because I do like the take that he was delusional, that he buried what he did as a kid, he legitimately made himself belive it didn't happen. He never admits to doing it, he might know on some subconscious level, but imo it's open to interpretation. Like, the way he reacts when Sophia makes him face the truth, it legit looked like he was genuine. Like he did not understand.
Either way, he kills Vic *because* he cared about him. And he can't anymore. It's his moment of no turning back. He is fucked, and he cannot deal with it in any other way than numbing everything out and doubling down on the core of his delusion he built, no matter what.
If gender by itself doesn't dichotomize, heterosexuality does. It means "I am one of two categories of human, and I am into the other of the two, which I'm not."
Like, can this be even done without some sort of gender roles? What even would that be like?