Same Sex Couple Intro'd On Disney Channel Sitcom

Slight threadjack here. We just had our first wedding announcement for a gay couple (two men) who married in New York but live here in good o'l Mississippi (yes, we have gays here, shocking, I know).

Not a peep from the readership so far, but that may change now that a letter to editor ran today praising the paper for "having the guts to run it." Hell, it was a paid announcement, why wouldn't we run it?

 

Most straight couples are ugly too.

I'll be honest: I really don't enjoy watching two guys make out. It makes me feel the same way as when I watch an unattractive straight couple make out. I'm talking on screen. Think Shallow Hal. Is this offensive? I wouldn't admit it without anonymity. For what it's worth, all heavy PDAs make me uncomfortable, regardless of orientation.

 

Sorry, man, but you're making the same inane statement. Just because something is "seen in real life" doesn't mean it should be acceptable on children's television.

Pick a different approach and I wouldn't argue with you at all. Hell, you could say, "it's legal in a growing number of states" and I wouldn't quibble at all with that approach.

But in the end this is just one more thing that people will talk and browbeat each other to death over, so who really gives a shit?

 

You should watch "Small Town Gay Bar." It's a documentary. Very enlightening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Town_Gay_Bar

 

Sophia the First comes from a broken family.

Doc McStuffins is a female, black doctor.

Anna saved Elsa, not a prince, and Anna chose saving Elsa over everything else, including a prince. Elsa has also shown no desire to be with a man. Her "powers" could very easily be seen as a symbol for being gay.

Brave did not need a prince (I know, Pixar at the time, but she is under the Disney umbrella right now).

 

Everything that's "seen in real life" is exactly the same as everything else that's "seen in real life."

Gay couples marrying, adults killing each other with guns. Kids selling lemonade, teens selling meth.

All should be treated the exact same way.

 

Have the gay mafia claimed Elsa yet, the way they did Merida and Bert and Ernie?

 

I'm sure those shows are already on somebody's shit list due to the sorcery in them.

And you are now on mine because I've now got "Time For A Check Up" stuck in my head.

 

In people are just the worst news: It seems the 5 year old star of the show has been getting death threats since the lesbian couple made their appearance.

http://www.avclub.com/article/someone-sent-death-threats-to-a-5yearold-disney-st-107602

 

When did we reach a point where this sort of stuff is not only tolerated, but seemingly promoted like some sort of badge of honor?

I really have no interest in regulating every detail of someone's life, but when you start pushing that crap in my face, well.... don't be shocked when I push back. I do not spend my time or thoughts dwelling on such perversions.

 

Maybe you can see why that concerns some of us. A generation from now, when those kids become adults and have kids of their own, is this sort of behavior going to be considered "normal" and "acceptable"?

 

Nothing TV does really surprises me anymore. I don't watch hardly anything except sports, news and, occasionally Law & Order. TV is pretty much a reflection of the cesspool that society as a whole has become.