How many young lesbians do you think watched this show vs horny straight boys?
Yes
As a straight, horny boy at the time, she basically ushered me into manhood.
i know of at least 2 women who realized their sexual orientation through xena
The ratio of unicorns to leprechauns
She and Gabrielle (and their sexual energy, which might be completely imagined by me) definitely had an impact on me. I’ve had many wet dreams of those two, without me or anyone else being involved. I’m a bisexual dude but my adult content watch history is 99% lesbian stuff. Specifically where one or both is extremely into it and orgasms, for real, at least once. No porn industry fake lesbian shit, and no men involved in any way.
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Can confirm. Fucking loved her back in the day
Oh definitely 🥰 I wanted to be her sidekick/roommate so badly.
I just wanted her sidekick… As a young boy that seemed to be more my speed.
Xena was a bit much for me when I was watching Xena on TV… At like… 5? 10? IDK. What year is it?
If Calypso was a boy call me gay all day.
I’m the same way with Thor. I’m not gay at all, but id let it happen. He’s a sexy man regardless of interests.
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Counterpoint
I was watching Labyrinth on a loop as a young boy, and I thought David Bowie was awesome, but I turned out… more or less straight. Mostly. Pretty much. I mean, of course Bowie is gorgeous, I’m not an idiot.
I am also more or less straight, but even I can regonize that Antonio Banderas was a very attractive man.
I like George Clooney, he was batman. …now looking back that movie was a little horned up.
The fuck do you mean, “was?”
Still is, you’re right, but there was definitely a sweet spot.
Oh boy, when I watched Spartacus my childhood dreams came true.
I mean… Xena, Calypso, and Gabrielle confirmed I’m straight. But at least Joxer taught me the kind of guy to find as a best friend?
Oh, and always keep any women I care about away from Autolycus.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh that show had a disproportionate influence on me growing up.
I never watched it. I remember other kids at school talking about it, but I never watched it. Kind of wished I did now.
Time to sail the high seas. It gets gayer with each episode IIRC. Like longing stares and shit.
Never watched it. Was she canonically gay? That would have been quite progressive for the time.
She was wink-wink-nudge-nudge “unconfirmed.” Very close with a female companion.
There are more than a few nudges about them being roommates. And as a horny teen, I was there for it.
don’t they literally kiss near the end?
People liked to joke about Xena being lesbian back in the days.
When I wanted to be Gabby.
As a straight dude it just made me like bratty women.
I’m a straight dude and it turned me into a lesbian.
I’m a straight dude and it turned me gay for lesbians
My appreciation for snarky, smart-mouthed, tomboys is starting to make sense.
Wanna hang out? Lol
Huh.
Natasha Lyonne hits so hard.
And her voice. Her and Emma Stone could get me going reading War and Peace.
Fuck, that’s why!
I can’t believe that, as a preteen, I thought she was “too manly”
Because a) no she wasn’t, she was a straight knockout and b) that’s sexist AF wtf preteen me.She probably could have broken you in half and preteen you wasn’t into that
Yeah, we all had a little growing to do as preteens. I tend not to hold it against purple.
holding it against green though is totally valid.
I mean, if you’re holding it till it’s purple, that may be a problem.
Eh, our tastes change with age. I remember as a teen thinking chest hair on men was icky, but in my 20s I began to love it.
It sounds like you successfully matured, and now you may reap the benefits of Xena’s sexy nature.
If anything, Xena turned me more straight
I’m a fairly cishet man and I think she’s responsible for my appreciation of queer lit. I’m definitely a little gayer than I otherwise would be.
You misunderstand the math equation, much like how there is nothing manlier than two men (Femboys not accounted for due to unstable variables) there is nothing straighter that someone heterosexual appreciating homosexual tendencies of the opposite sex. Mind you this is operating on simplified variables, trans and bi folks make the math far far messier and I shall leave such matters of gayness and straightness to others who aren’t me.
I mean I appreciate homosexual tendencies in men too. I think it makes for some really steamy stories. I guess that’s that Kinsey spectrum.
It’s just possible I’ve just lapsed into presumed heterosexuality because I’m in a great monogamous relationship with a woman.
So anyway, that’s why I say gay-er, but not fully gay or bi. Does that even make sense? Lol
