lack of gay representation in US television?

[Absinthe]

Baseless ad hominems are fun.

 

[Core407]

It's their networks. They decide what to air. They decide when to air it. They decide who is mature enough to see what. They decide what is to be seen. It is their business.

If you want control, get your own channel. Make your own commercials. Don't force people to do what they don't want to do.

The funny part is that the reason why we don't see it isn't because networks don't want it, but because people don't want it. Networks are competing for viewers and its pretty clear that people don't just want to see gay characters thrown on a random show.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Wait actually I think there's more gays in shows than you think. And I don't mean gay actors I mean people in the show who are gay.

Hell take the entire show Frasier for example

 

[Kadayi]

Hell take the entire show Frasier for example

LOL, I must of missed that episode

 

[CptStern]

Wait actually I think there's more gays in shows than you think. And I don't mean gay actors I mean people in the show who are gay.

Hell take the entire show Frasier for example

:upstare: there are no gay characters on fraiser

What would you guys say if I said that one's sexual preference isn't something television should affirm or discourage?

so no more beer ads featuring bikini clad babes? ...cant be affirming/discouraging sexual preference on tv

We had the Gay 5 on TV. I don't know if they're on anymore. They made my blood boil and was one of the reasons I stopped watching TV.

never heard of gay 5 ..why are you watching gay programs if it makes your blood boil?

If you mean people like that, then I will brain you. They piss me off.

so because they "piss you off" they have no right to exist? if you pissed someone off does that give them the right to take you out back and shoot you? why do you even care? what right do you have to make any sort of judgement on what other people do? how does them being gay affect your life in any way? (besides having high boold pressure)

And that's where the distinction has to be made: There's a difference between being TV-gay and just being gay. The people who walk around and grope other men on screen -

what gay programs have you been watching? and why are you watching gay programs if you're repulsed by it?

That's not right and they be punished in some way for annoying me.

you're starting to annoy me, you should be horse whipped, tarred and featured and paraded naked through your neighbourhood because as a tax paying citizen I have a right not to be annoyed

..btw who made you the authority on morality? you dont speak for me or anybody else besides yourself

 

[Sulkdodds]

Sorry if this has already been said, and I will read this thread, but:

I can't think of a mainstream movie that features an openly gay hero in a plot that isn't specifically about homosexuality.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

 

[Beerdude26]

Give all of America twelve gauge shotguns with free slugs, hang cameras on all the streetcorners and enjoy the gorefest, I say.

 

[Sulkdodds]

That makes no sense and I will kill you with chainsaws.

 

[Que-Ever]

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

What about Batman?

 

[Beerdude26]

That makes no sense and I will kill you with chainsaws.

It seems that everyone in America hates each other's guts so much the kidney pie stocks have plumetted to -∞ .

Why not give them the means to solve it and make some money out of it in the meantime?