#their utter inability to plainly acknowledge that neither of them are cishet...

[houliburns]

the "well if i were a woman i would" scene is crazy the layerss. frank wanting to test margaret's loyalty to him bc hes insecure n is convinced shes attracted to every other man + he likes making scenes about that so she has to reassure him n he gets validation that she likes him. simultaneous with his desire to tentatively run his own attraction to flagg by her to see her reaction, maybe in the hopes she'll validate it, although i doubt he's even consciously aware it's attraction - hence "he's attractive but im a man so clearly i dont/cant think so, but you must... right?" like the mental gymnastics... meanwhile margaret who's grateful for frank's insecurity bc it makes her feel desirable, and she enjoys the little game of playing coy while frank gets desperate bc it's good for her ego - but then ive never understood why the conclusion she draws is "do you often think about being a woman?" i always thought that was an odd, almost random inclusion. and frank changes the subject immediately. maybe it's that they both refuse to acknowledge homosexuality, theyre both stuck in "men like women and women like men and thats IT, that's all thats allowed", to the point that any deviation in that implies transsexuality rather than homosexuality?? which is a strange conclusion to draw but these r two strange ppl. or frank's stuck in that sort of thinking and margaret knows that. is it implying she knows him well enough to know that when he says "if i were a woman i would" it means he's been fantasizing about being one for the last few minutes as a reconciliation of his own attraction to a man. like literally fsdjkfdhsk what the fuckkkk. most insane internalized homophobia i've ever seen