Oh, sure, but it's not really important to me about the intent behind it, not now watching the show at this remove from its historical period and so many decades after it was made. I mean, it's easy to argue in response to me that Hawkeye wasn't written to be queer in 1972, and I accept that - but now, I want to make the point that you have to make an effort, put on your heterosexist goggles, to read him as straight.

(I had a M*A*S*H icon! Damn you, LJ.)