as a straight guy in the culture, Finn is trained to protectvely maintain his masculine self-image.
... and this is a PROBLEM, and is exactly what Kurt's dad called him out on. Finn being subjected to bullying by the football team is also a cultural PROBLEM, and it is not on Kurt to somehow "protect" him from that. (By what, never expressing an interest in a boy because the boy might then be bullied?)
Glee fails on a lot of issues -- hell, it fails on this one a lot of the time -- but so far the writers have been consistent in having Burt call out the things that are broken in how society treats homosexuals, especially homosexual teenagers, and refuse to perpetuate that brokenness. "Gay panic" is bullshit defense for anything, ever.
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Date: 2010-05-26 03:17 pm (UTC)... and this is a PROBLEM, and is exactly what Kurt's dad called him out on. Finn being subjected to bullying by the football team is also a cultural PROBLEM, and it is not on Kurt to somehow "protect" him from that. (By what, never expressing an interest in a boy because the boy might then be bullied?)
Glee fails on a lot of issues -- hell, it fails on this one a lot of the time -- but so far the writers have been consistent in having Burt call out the things that are broken in how society treats homosexuals, especially homosexual teenagers, and refuse to perpetuate that brokenness. "Gay panic" is bullshit defense for anything, ever.