Remember my rant about gays in the media?
Sep. 19th, 2009 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessWaaay back here when I ranted about how homosexuals are depicted by the media?
Well here is a great vid linked to by Renee at Womanist Musings about that very subject
Is this better than invisibility? Is it better to be a collection of freak shows and stereotypes? Or, so wonderfully, to be the lifeless side kick for straight women - gods forbid the gay guy having a life that doesn’t involve her. SO much so that a HOMOSEXUAL MAN will end up in bed with her?
For young gays growing up today is it better to have no depictions at all of homosexuals or these sad tropes and stereotypes? Better yet - let’s not make it an either/or choice. Can we have sensible, sane depictions of us please (and that means all of us - including Lesbians that aren’t sex toys for straight men, Bissexuals who aren’t promiscuous sex maniacs and some mature, sensible depictions of trans people) because at the moment the fact a programme has a gay character usually makes me change the channel.
And it spills over into real life. You trawl through my archives and you’ll find me complaining about women who seem to think I’m some kind of agony uncle. AND people asking extremely personal and offensive questions (seriously, since when is it acceptable for an acquaintance to question me on my intimate sex acts?). Can we please have the media treating us as people and not caricatures or accessories.
Well here is a great vid linked to by Renee at Womanist Musings about that very subject
Is this better than invisibility? Is it better to be a collection of freak shows and stereotypes? Or, so wonderfully, to be the lifeless side kick for straight women - gods forbid the gay guy having a life that doesn’t involve her. SO much so that a HOMOSEXUAL MAN will end up in bed with her?
For young gays growing up today is it better to have no depictions at all of homosexuals or these sad tropes and stereotypes? Better yet - let’s not make it an either/or choice. Can we have sensible, sane depictions of us please (and that means all of us - including Lesbians that aren’t sex toys for straight men, Bissexuals who aren’t promiscuous sex maniacs and some mature, sensible depictions of trans people) because at the moment the fact a programme has a gay character usually makes me change the channel.
And it spills over into real life. You trawl through my archives and you’ll find me complaining about women who seem to think I’m some kind of agony uncle. AND people asking extremely personal and offensive questions (seriously, since when is it acceptable for an acquaintance to question me on my intimate sex acts?). Can we please have the media treating us as people and not caricatures or accessories.