New Network TV Season Has Fewer Gay Characters

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  1. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But....but...but Fox is right wing and biased. Fox has almost 50% of the gay and bisexual characters on their network. What does that tell you about the other "fair and balanced" networks. Broadcast hypocrites made up of the "let's not and say we did" limousine liberals.
     
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    Which begs the question why is an adult heterosexual man even watching network tv fictional shows?
     
  3. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Tell us why you do? Myself I don't even have cable and watch only the oldie TV show channels or PBS for the cooking shows.
     
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    Fox cable television and Faux comedy news are not the same thing.

    Mincing words, its a righty pass time.
     
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    keymanjim New Member Past Donor

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    That bite mark on your ass? It was left there by IRONY.
     
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    Same Rupert Murdock skippy.
     
  7. Professor Peabody

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    Who said they were? The MSM TV shows put together make barely 50% of the Gay characters among them all. Real liberal thinkers there.
     
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    Where's Tinky Winky when we need him... or her... or it?
     
  9. Professor Peabody

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    Try Fox, you won't find him/her on he Liberal media outlets. As usual their support is just "lip" service.
     
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    Thanks Obama! :mrgreen:
     
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    I hate those TV shows that have the token gay character. Like he or she is there for no other reason than comedy relief. I would think that most gay people in real life would be offended at being exploited like that.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E9_uzm3X9E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E9_uzm3X9E[/ame]
     
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    I think they are there for comic relief, I think they are there simply because they feel they have to have a gay character.
    I think there should be gay characters on TV shows - gay people do exist, after all - I sometimes even I watch a TV show with a gay character and I wonder why that person is in the show at all, when it adds nothing at all to the story.
     
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    So you see my point then! I mean, don't get me wrong, I know that there are gay people everywhere and I have no problem with that. But there is a fine line between necessity and exploitation when it comes to movies and TV shows. Take Terminator 3 for example; now this scene was necessary because it was a complete flip-flop from the beginning of Terminator 2, and it was handled brilliantly:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPijjFNNSI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPijjFNNSI[/ame]
     
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    I did love that scene. He must have felt so ridiculous.:mrgreen:
     
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    I love that gay dancer's part: "Whoa,(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)! Wait your turn!" :-D
     
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    Granny says, "Dat's good...

    ... possum don't need to be seein' no girly-boys...

    ... swishy walkin' across the screen."
    :fart:
     
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    I enjoy network TV for the anti- straight, white, Christian, father message.

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    Strange article...
    Does it matter if there are less or more "overall"?
     
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    Can you suggest some hard and fast gay porn, where they're treated properly, just to take our minds off such a travesty of tokenism?
     
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    Now that's pretty gay. :-D
     

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