Bigots
Bigots fascinate me.
Sometimes, when they're depicted on TV or in films, I think the dialogue they're given is often ham-fisted and over-the-top, just so that there isn't any doubt in the mind of the viewer what they're all about. I pretty much think no one in real life can possibly be so obvious and yet so clueless about how they come across at the same time.
But I guess, I've been proven wrong again.
I watch a cute little Canadian detective show on the Ovation network called, The Artful Detective. My mother turned me on to it and, initially, I started watching it just so she'd have someone to discuss it with. It's a very corny Sherlock Holmes-y kind of thing. It takes place in Toronto in the early 20th Century and it deals with a lot of the modern technological advances and issues of the time. Recently, one of the female characters (a coroner) appears to have realized she's a lesbian (this particular episode hasn't yet aired in the US). I kind of had a feeling that's where they were heading with this character, so I went online to see if my suspicions were correct and found the following comment on a discussion forum about the show:
"I disagree wholeheartedly that those who are upset with this turn of sexuality for Dr. Grace are bigots. Frankly, it's the LGBT that are being hypocrites. They LOVE to say that a person is born gay, that you cannot "become" gay. And yet, here we have Dr. Grace, a woman clearly in her twenties, who has always known her own mind, suddenly BECOMING gay - and frankly, she shows up at this woman's doorstep to SPITE Brackenreid!! She would not have gone there had he told her not to.
Had they introduced her as gay from the very beginning, I wouldn't have cared less. It is the fact that they are doing this for NO OTHER REASON than to get more LGBT people watching the show that frustrates me to no end. I despise when TV shows cater to the whims of special interests groups simply to get more ratings.
I am also bloody well sick to DEATH of people calling anyone that isn't on the LGBT bandwagon a bigot. I am not a bigot, I have no problem with gay people, I am friends with gay people, I have relatives that are gay that I love dearly, and I again, have no problem with their sexuality as that is their business, not mine. What I do have a problem with is the disgusting amount of hypocrisy that takes place around the issue of gays and specifically the LGBT movement.
It is in poor taste to use a beloved character to further an agenda - whether it is the LGBT movement's agenda (and you are absolutely ridiculous uninformed if you do not believe they have one), or a TV executive's agenda."
The bolded passage is what interests me most. The commenter (who has many gay friends as well dearly beloved gay relations) starts ranting about the "gay agenda." Dead giveaway that she's doesn't like gay people (also, I believe her username contained the word "mom" somewhere within it - not usually a good sign either). What really weirds me out about this whole thing is, when I speak about people I don't like - right-wing conservative Christians, for example, I never feel compelled to preface my statement with how many of them I personally know and love. For the most part, I loathe right-wing conservative Christians and if I were to find myself inadvertently associated with one of them, I'd extricate myself from the relationship post haste. I have no issue whatsoever with making a blanket statement like that. However, these people must feel ashamed of their bigotry or at least know it's wrong on some level, if they always feel the need to mention how many gays, blacks, Jews, etc., they know and love just prior to making their bigoted proclamations. I have nothing to hide. I hate right-wing conservative Christian-types. If this lady hates gays - she should just say it.
Sometimes, when they're depicted on TV or in films, I think the dialogue they're given is often ham-fisted and over-the-top, just so that there isn't any doubt in the mind of the viewer what they're all about. I pretty much think no one in real life can possibly be so obvious and yet so clueless about how they come across at the same time.
But I guess, I've been proven wrong again.
I watch a cute little Canadian detective show on the Ovation network called, The Artful Detective. My mother turned me on to it and, initially, I started watching it just so she'd have someone to discuss it with. It's a very corny Sherlock Holmes-y kind of thing. It takes place in Toronto in the early 20th Century and it deals with a lot of the modern technological advances and issues of the time. Recently, one of the female characters (a coroner) appears to have realized she's a lesbian (this particular episode hasn't yet aired in the US). I kind of had a feeling that's where they were heading with this character, so I went online to see if my suspicions were correct and found the following comment on a discussion forum about the show:
"I disagree wholeheartedly that those who are upset with this turn of sexuality for Dr. Grace are bigots. Frankly, it's the LGBT that are being hypocrites. They LOVE to say that a person is born gay, that you cannot "become" gay. And yet, here we have Dr. Grace, a woman clearly in her twenties, who has always known her own mind, suddenly BECOMING gay - and frankly, she shows up at this woman's doorstep to SPITE Brackenreid!! She would not have gone there had he told her not to.
Had they introduced her as gay from the very beginning, I wouldn't have cared less. It is the fact that they are doing this for NO OTHER REASON than to get more LGBT people watching the show that frustrates me to no end. I despise when TV shows cater to the whims of special interests groups simply to get more ratings.
I am also bloody well sick to DEATH of people calling anyone that isn't on the LGBT bandwagon a bigot. I am not a bigot, I have no problem with gay people, I am friends with gay people, I have relatives that are gay that I love dearly, and I again, have no problem with their sexuality as that is their business, not mine. What I do have a problem with is the disgusting amount of hypocrisy that takes place around the issue of gays and specifically the LGBT movement.
It is in poor taste to use a beloved character to further an agenda - whether it is the LGBT movement's agenda (and you are absolutely ridiculous uninformed if you do not believe they have one), or a TV executive's agenda."
The bolded passage is what interests me most. The commenter (who has many gay friends as well dearly beloved gay relations) starts ranting about the "gay agenda." Dead giveaway that she's doesn't like gay people (also, I believe her username contained the word "mom" somewhere within it - not usually a good sign either). What really weirds me out about this whole thing is, when I speak about people I don't like - right-wing conservative Christians, for example, I never feel compelled to preface my statement with how many of them I personally know and love. For the most part, I loathe right-wing conservative Christians and if I were to find myself inadvertently associated with one of them, I'd extricate myself from the relationship post haste. I have no issue whatsoever with making a blanket statement like that. However, these people must feel ashamed of their bigotry or at least know it's wrong on some level, if they always feel the need to mention how many gays, blacks, Jews, etc., they know and love just prior to making their bigoted proclamations. I have nothing to hide. I hate right-wing conservative Christian-types. If this lady hates gays - she should just say it.