@molly0xfff For anyone to see sexuality in Hal 9000 they must be deeply, deeply frustrated. Unless asphyxiation by vacuum is a fetish I don't know about.
@molly0xfff I read this and struggled to remember anything more sexual than the baby showing up during the acid trip at the end, then I read the excerpt and… wow, aside from just not making any sense, that’s a weird unnecessary obsession with reading any lack of strict conformance as a “threat” of …love? Which I guess is a threat because conformance requires not taking no for an answer? Which really isn’t something we should call “love”
@molly0xfff early in my uni career i engaged a film lecturer in a long discussion about how HAL 9000's death reads like a tender hospice scene, so I guess I'm a gay computer truther at heart, but I always adore remembering that anyone else is
@molly0xfff I swear - this sounds like the author is assuming "intelligent and non-aggressive" means "gay". I admit - I saw that assumption in my youth, but "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar", ya know?
@molly0xfff Maybe I'm off here but I agree with that analysis or at least I'm sympathetic. In the context of '60s space program, astronauts-- and the corresponding characters depicted in the movie-- represented a certain masculine ideal. HAL contrasts, clearly coded masculine but also characterized as helpful to the point of subservience and responsible for "housekeeping" tasks. His murderousness also emerges from his being forced to be "in the closet" about the true nature of the mission.
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Having been to an English public/boarding school I rather resent the cliche that it was a hotbed of forbidden bottom love. Non of that sort of thing went on - we were all too busy smoking weed and getting drunk.
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