Frankly, I like that homosexuality is subtle in WoT, because that's how it is in real life. There are, yes, some flamboyantly gay people, but most gay people you wouldn't know one way or the other. I like Jordan's attitude that it's the people and the story that are important, and homosexuality...
I haven't read every post here, so this may have been mentioned, but I view pillow friends as being similar to something I heard once. I believe it was a Japanese concept, where adolescent girls would date each other and it was seen as practice for relationships with boys, and a mark of...