Inara: Does it seem every supply store on every border planet has the same five rag dolls and the same wood carvings of… what is this? A duck?
Kaylee: That’s a swan… I like it.
Inara: You do?
Kaylee: Looks like it was made with, you know, longing. Made by a person really longed to see a swan.
Inara: Perhaps because they’d only heard of them by rough description.
Firefly — Episode 5 — “Safe”
The Love Pirate 
The difference between jaded and naive. the friendship between Inara and Kaylee was one of the most gentle of larger social commentary – Kaylee after all, is not sexually innocent, an amateur enthusiasm vs overly trained professional.
it is one of the few shows that really explored female sexual power – with Zoe being the married balance
River’s shattered PTSD asexuality
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Very excellent point, and one of my favorite aspects of the show!
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gosh, thank you kindly. You’re the first person to make me blush in about 3 years. that makes you my favorite person today and I haven’t given out this internet sunshine award for a while now. since I was booted off facebook.
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Aww, my pleasure! 🙂
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hey, if you’re a straight guy, you’d be a Lesbro
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I am a straight guy, and I’m happy to be called a lesbro
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Joss Whedon is one of the few men who can write women characters that women would write. I call him a Lesbro, the kinda straight guy that a lesbian would feel happy to hang out with and know he’s not gonna turn creepy or whiney about friend zones.
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I hope in my writings to write women as well as Joss. I haven’t heard “lesbro” before, but I like it!
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feel free to use it. it’s a community word.
I wrote about a dyke/lesbro friendship back in the 1990s, it came second place in an NFB/BC Film/Telefilm competition, but never got made.
http://dykewriter.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/screenplay-coffee/
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