I have to say from the moment I watched Glee to the moment I stopped watching (about five episodes later) I found myself ill every time Kurt was on screen. I'm capable of detaching an actor's real life from a character. I kept recoiling in disgust every time he opened his mouth. His voice just makes my skin crawl.
You can say I have issues, or whatever. Heck, we all have some in some way. But it wasn't until that moment that I realized I have a difficult time believing that the way he speaks was something natural, that he didn't learn. Sure, the tone and pitch of one's speaking voice isn't something you can completely effect. Though Michael Jackson is a perfect example of one who spoke soft and delicately in public, but more deep and masculine in private.
What I can't grasp is if this is a put on, if he taught himself to speak this way or developed it, WHY he did it?
Also, something about the character that really got on my nerves was his screaming for equal treatment yet striving to be as different and invasive as he possibly could, all while acting as if everyone else had the problem.
I'm sorry, if you wear makeup, wigs, women's clothes, speak like a woman and throw prissy tantrums, and just happen to be a man/boy. YOU CAN NOT expect to be treated like other men/boys. The characters incessant demands to be treated like everyone else simply didn't fit with the way he acted. It's one thing to embrace yourself, and have a unique identity. It's entirely another thing to take that identity and carry it to the farthest extreme and slap people in the face with it every chance you get while screaming at the top of your shrieking lungs "ACCEPT ME! YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT ME!"
Sorry, Mary, I don't. No one does. People LIKE his character need to realize, that if they want people to accept them, they need to accept themselves, underneath all that makeup, glitter, wigs, lisps, etc. Call me a dope but that crap is learned. Be the person you are without the add-ons. THEN you can defend yourself and your right to equality.
Okay, come at me, I'm sure some of you have been sharpening your claws since the first sentence of this post.
