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Paper on how grey's anatomy so often directly espouses the idea that everyone likes and needs sex, yet the show represents so many varying kinds of relationships and desires, for romance, sex, friendship, family, etc.
Like, there'll be scenes of couples in beds, but also of friends hanging out together and talking in the same position in beds, and the figure of the person dancing alone in their underwear in their bedroom is like a motif of self love and self care throughout the show
like these doctors are smart as hell and really should realize that ace people exist; they're cool with trans people and gay/bi people cnnkzjnjk but on the other hand the show does very much value relationships that aren't romantic/sexual
man though petition for an ace doctor on the show it'd be so interesting to see them approach the sexy blend of work/personal space that is the grey's anatomy hospital lolol like their very lack of interest would be so at odds with what other characters have argued about sex
granted maggie talks about loving sleeping alone and wanting to have a separate bedroom from the dude who proposed to her, april's had her celibacy ideals, cassie talks about loving being alone, and a lot of characters go through periods after breakups wanting to be on their own
like many ace studies papers reference that house episode where he says anyone who says they don't like sex is either sick, dead, or lying, but Grey's also has a lot of potential for asexual reading
I'm also guessing the guy from the good doctor is often desexualized, only having seen a few episodes, and Voodoo from Sirens is an ambulance worker who's one of the few canon ace characters anywhere - so really like asexuality and medical tv shows should totally be a paper
could be the intro, even, to a book/thesis on asexuality's turn from invisibility and pathology to identity over the last 200ish years in medical texts and discourse - or the last chapter/conclusion?
lol I don't know shit about medical studies but older medical texts and adjacent texts really are interesting
If i Did do a phd in rhetoric/comp, I could focus on the rhetoric side of things and study how people discuss asexuality in medical texts and tv shows, how people talk about asexuality now, etc... asexual rhetoric in contemporary poetry and creative work,,,,
if I could find a smaller 15 pg paper topic in this thread for a rhet/comp phd app writing sample,,, i could focus solely on grey's, or a specific decade of medical/sexology/etc. texts,,,
or the image of the happy single in grey's? people who are post breakup, on a break, celibate/religious, more interested in sex than relationships
tempted to send this thread to the prof I'm doing an independent rhetcomp study with and being like "is,,,is this anything"
honestly I need to do more rhetoric research because it kind of feels like rhetoric studies could look at literally anything - although I suppose they could, as everything uses rhetoric bless
