Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.

I say this with all love--some people have too much time on their hands.

Still, I wouldn't say that on a website where the stated purpose is to scan popular culture to find the subtexts that explore how gayness is dealt with, especially in less tolerant eras. Hell, I might pay money to join a website that did that sort of thing. I've got a pair of Thinky Boots, too, right beside the Yay, Things Blow Up! Boots.

I've got a pair of Thinky Boots, too, right beside the Yay, Things Blow Up! Boots.

Heh.

Both of those boots are hot!

I have told my friends that looking at Adrian Grenier was one of the first time I understood those idiots that shout stuff at women on the street. And I find myself wondering if you could(or should) describe a male actor as an "ingenue" ever.(Michael Cera, anyone? Though I don't really *want* him, it might fit him better than Grenier.) So I suppose "VincentChaseInIceCreamTopping" could be a Sociological Image, too.

Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.

I say this with all love--some people have too much time on their hands.

This sounds like we're back to the reason for Moff's law. It's not even an unusual interpretation of the show known as the "gayest show ever."

Well, I hadn't thought of it, pre- Buffista(like so many things) But it makes sense. Also, the one I got to first, about women hiding who they are/ our power. And now I totally want to write Bewitched/ Mad Men again...it totally doesn't help that Roger's hair makes me all "Oh. Larry Tate." despite the fact that I find him far more attractive.

Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.

And also as a commentary of the changing of the power-holder in a given household as women were becoming less and less satisfied with the choices being given to them.

was it consciously making those statements or are those put on it in hindsight?

So what can you read I Dream of Jeannie as? Or I Love Lucy?

I like Aims's take, but I think it was mostly something you could interpret after the fact. No way to be sure, but I doubt they were going for anything more than cute and funny.