Law and Order: SVU controversies about sexual identities of fictional characters and actors/actresses

when i was digging around looking for mariska hargitay stuff yesterday i stumbled on to what is i have found to be a BIG debate that rages about both the sexuality of the character of olivia and mariska hargitay. i found this link which seems like it has some intelligent discussion. http://j-l-r.org/anize/Olivia

what i find interesting is that i never considered that there were any sort of hints of anything more than the character of svu being open and identifying with women in trouble and related it to the character's own ambivalence about sexual violence and so the things other people have identified as "clues" to a closeted life for olivia are weird to me...as is the fact that there is an entire email group devoted to debating the sexuality of both actress and character. i think if ellen degeneres has done anything in this world besides giving out more gifts to celebs and fans alike than bob barker it is proving that no one really cares what a celebs sexual orientation is...sure it is fun gossip like following angelina jolie's every messed up utterance or worrying that jennifer garner is married to an alcoholic, perhaps problem gambler who broke up his engagement to the first jennifer by going with friends to a strip bar....not exactly who i'd pick for a mate but her first marriage lasted like 2 minutes cuz she was married in 2004 then before she got together with ben affleck she was seriously dating michael vartran so that makes for fun gossip hunting...it is just strange when people get so overzealous and demanding about a celebritiy's personal life...but then again once one is a celebrity they do sort of lose the right to ever be considered anything but a public possession/obsession and the melding of dramatic characters and the actors and actresses that play them is a time honored belief...i dunno i find the whole thing strangely fascinating.

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[heather]

I think its really actually kind of pathetic that rape vics or "so called rape vics" and such actually live there lives by deciding which charater on tvis lesbian or not, I have notyet found a reason for mariska to be a lesbian, even her charater, if you were a ral vic you would feel sympothy and understanding for these people. So I dont even want to listen to people trying to justify weather or not mariska is a lesbian or not....