My question to you is, why are you defending the heterosexual staus-quo? A thing that does not need a single point of defending? Does not need an argument in its favor. You are still for all intents and purposes, telling people they are free to ignore queerness and think it doesn’t exist, contrary to one of your last posts. The heterosexual reading, the platonic reading, the friendship reading doesn’t need defending. How about we defend some of the other kinds for once?

No, I’m stating the facts.  We can’t force anybody to look if they choose to do otherwise.  They’re free to look away if they want.

I didn’t say it would necessarily be a good human act if they chose to.  (Although sometimes people need to do things for their own protection, rather than because they want to maintain their own ignorance.)

And I also said (in this post: http://prettyarbitrary.tumblr.com/post/72562652449/hi-i-dont-think-the-bbc-are-afraid-of-showing but I’ve posted a lot today, so you might have missed it) that this is the very problem with coding queer relationships into a text rather than displaying it outright, the way that happens for heterosexual relationships.  Because it leaves people free to ignore it.