Act against homophobia

[celandineb]

As seen at fabu's and jelazakazone's:

In response to heat they're getting from the American Family Association, Proctor & Gamble is conducting a phone poll to see if people are for or against the Luke/Noah storyline on the soap opera As The World Turns (which the company owns). Even if you don't watch the show, please consider taking a quick moment to support boy

Comments

[darkladyothsith]

I wasn't going to comment, but this keeps nagging at me, so here goes.

I probably shouldn't get in the middle of this, but I would like to point out that being opposed to that particular pairing (at least how you're presenting the question in your post) wouldn't necessarily be homophobia.

It could be that someone doesn't think the two are right for each other, any more than they would if it we Luke or Noah and some woman on the show they don't think is a good match. Perhaps they think Luke would match better with a female character or perhaps they might even think he would match better with a different male character. I don't watch soaps, but I've had friends get intensely opposed to some event that happens on one for no other reason than that's not how they want it to happen. To the point of threatening to never watch the show again and writing angry letters to the show. Rather like the people who reacted so badly to Hermione ending up with Ron when they thought it should be her and Harry.

I realize that a lot of people who'd vote against such a pairing would do so for homophobic reasons, and that is bad. I just wanted to point out that not everyone that votes that way is homophobic. I'm as guilty of painting with too broad a brush as the next person, sometimes, but it felt like something that needed saying. =)

[celandineb]

Oh, sure, but the reason the American Family Association is protesting (and the reason there's a phone poll at all) is pretty clearly not because folks think it's an improbable relationship; it's because it's a male-male relationship, and a kiss was shown on television. If it were just a few die-hards who think a different scenario would be better, I seriously doubt P&G would care as I'm sure they get that all the time.

[alicorn24]

Excellent point. Homosexual relationships are so infrequent in mainstream media that they're all held up as being just that, without consideration for whatever personal dynamic there may be. I don't watch the show either, but as much as I "support boy kissing", I'd rather see no boy kissing than see boys who are wrong for each other kissing. (If in fact these boys are wrong for each other. It may be a fantastic pairing.) That's not progress any more than token black guys on TV shows are progress.

[alicorn24]

That having been said, I'm tempted to vote anyway just in hopes of annoying the American Family Association.