I recently started watching Xena again after a long period of not seeing it. And I also blogged about it in a non-fandom area, and somehow got sucked into the whole text vs. sub-text argument all over again. It brought back so many upsetting memories for me of the ugly fights the two camps would get into years ago about whether or not Gabrielle and Xena were "more than friends." (Just for the record, let me state I feel the only reasonable answer to that question is DUH, of course they were.)

Then today I was reading someone's Queer as Folk LiveJournal, and they made a comment with which I disagree - not a novel experience, I often read interpretations of this and other shows, movies, and books that differ from mine. But for some reason, this one really got into my head and threw me, personally, off balance, in much the way the recent text/sub-text argument did on the political blog.
( After the cut: Do I need a shrink or am I making an extremely profound point about human nature? )