10-18-2014, 10:34 PM
I am getting tired of people referring to (early) Howard as a pervert. Exactly how is he a pervert? He doesn't have any bizarre fetishes that we're aware of. A young guy in his twenties is horny and likes women? Wow, shocking. And even if he did have some strange and unusual ideas/fetishes/interests (which, as far as we know, he doesn't) that still wouldn't be much of an issue, provided that he wasn't harming himself or violating other people's rights and safety.
He's overly blunt in his approach, but that doesn't make someone a pervert. "Pervert" implies that you're into things which are really vile and abnormal and probably harmful, not that you're just overly-focused on sex and unsubtle in your approach.
The word perversion literally means something that has been altered from its original course or its original state of being. A man being attracted to women is not a perversion under any definition; whether the way he expresses that attraction is distasteful or counterproductive, is not the point.
Whether his sexual behavior is rather crude, inappropriate, or over-eager is a separate issue. "Perversion" implies that one's desires are abnormal, twisted, unhealthy, harmful.
Whether his *behavior* is offensive is a fair enough argument with valid points on both sides, but it's pretty clear that his desires and intentions aren't malicious or harmful.
I've always believed that H. is only *saying* what Leonard and Raj are *thinking.* He has no filter, so he just verbalizes whatever pops into his head, without first assessing whether it's an appropriate thing to say, or not.
I've found that people are very irony-impaired, in terms of Howard. That is the key to why so many people misunderstand his character. The entire point is that he's not as sexually bold/aggressive/adventurous as he pretends to be, and nowhere near as promiscuous as he'd like to be. **That's the joke, folks.** That is the joke.
Irony: Learn it. Know it.
On that note, a statement like "TPTB have perverted this show" would be one hundred percent correct, because the word means something that has deviated from its proper course and become distorted...
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It also bugs me that I even have to use words like "vintage", "classic" or "early", in order to even be able to talk about these characters we love...
He's overly blunt in his approach, but that doesn't make someone a pervert. "Pervert" implies that you're into things which are really vile and abnormal and probably harmful, not that you're just overly-focused on sex and unsubtle in your approach.
The word perversion literally means something that has been altered from its original course or its original state of being. A man being attracted to women is not a perversion under any definition; whether the way he expresses that attraction is distasteful or counterproductive, is not the point.
Whether his sexual behavior is rather crude, inappropriate, or over-eager is a separate issue. "Perversion" implies that one's desires are abnormal, twisted, unhealthy, harmful.
Whether his *behavior* is offensive is a fair enough argument with valid points on both sides, but it's pretty clear that his desires and intentions aren't malicious or harmful.
I've always believed that H. is only *saying* what Leonard and Raj are *thinking.* He has no filter, so he just verbalizes whatever pops into his head, without first assessing whether it's an appropriate thing to say, or not.
I've found that people are very irony-impaired, in terms of Howard. That is the key to why so many people misunderstand his character. The entire point is that he's not as sexually bold/aggressive/adventurous as he pretends to be, and nowhere near as promiscuous as he'd like to be. **That's the joke, folks.** That is the joke.
Irony: Learn it. Know it.
On that note, a statement like "TPTB have perverted this show" would be one hundred percent correct, because the word means something that has deviated from its proper course and become distorted...
It also bugs me that I even have to use words like "vintage", "classic" or "early", in order to even be able to talk about these characters we love...