'Nesh> I think it is possible to make that bizarre connection if you're playing a character, or if you've got your wits about you (in this case, you could recognise the lyric from the first two lines and know what was coming up in the following two). Of course, the question then becomes how much you're playing that character and how much you're turning into it.
I disagree; IMHO, that's a reeeal stretch. I think Victor's was a really idiosyncratic response (which doesn't even make sense in terms of the song lyric) that appeared instantaneously. I don't think it's about "wits" or being in-character (and, as I've said previously, I don't think Victor makes terribly clear distinctions between characters and self - so I don't think it was a clear-cut 'this is not the Real Me' situation in the first place); it's about attempting to rescue a gut reaction.
And no, I don't think he's been particularly homophobic in the sense of being openly hostile or unpleasant about gay people. I do think he's homophobic in the sense of being incredibly anxious about the concept of homosexuality (to the extent that much of his waking life is devoted to establishing, for the benefit of all concerned, that he's not only utterly 100% heterosexual but uber-heterosexual - he's evidently so repulsed by the thought of being touched by a man that he doesn't touch his penis himself, but seemingly wears it to a bloodied stump "banging women"). Also, his conversations with Kitten and about Dan (or rather, Dan's cock) suggest that his knowledge of the Queer Other is cobbled together from urban myth, stereotype and his own lurid imagination.
So, yeah, I think he's homophobic in the sense of being afraid of (yet fascinated by) homosexuals and homosexuality - specifically, the possibility that anyone might, for the merest nanosecond, consider him homosexual (and, presumably, penetrate his macro-arse). |
