Rants! I Has Some

[shadowravyn]

Also known as: shadowravyn has Opinions (news at 11).

So, touchthesoul, who is made of awesome and great, posted this video on her LJ. I, of course, love Glee, and had to watch it. However, watching it, I became aware (or, perhaps 'more aware' is a better term) of two things:

1. I am not pleased with the way they are portraying homosexuality in Glee, and

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[lyricaldiscord]

Thank you. I can't watch Glee for pretty much all of these reasons. I tried, I did, since my flist seems to love it, but I was literally quivering with rage through the whole thing.

Especially the silent Asian character (not even going to go into THAT) who is probably a lesbian. So, at best, she's a toofer; we get two minorities in one, but let's not give her any lines. As someone who lives with an Asian actor, I know I'm probably more attuned to the white-washing of primetime television and the sins of omission in casting than most people are, but that just made me livid. What they're doing on Glee is no different than when Hollywood cast a bunch of white kids for the heroes of Avatar, and only auditioned Asians for non-speaking crowd scenes.

I get that it's supposed to be cute and fluffy and non-threatening. But it's an attempt at appeasement (of many people), and it kinda makes me want to throw up.

...and I want that rant about the myth of marriage. 'Cause knowing you it will be awesome, and I can just hand it to the Lad's mother next time she starts in on us.