www.deusexmalcontent.com/2008/...s.html
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Reality TV has become the modern-day minstrel show of gay culture.
Homosexuals on these shows are cast almost exclusively as swishing, superficial drama-queens -- and are no doubt told to play up their "gayness" the same way that blacks were once coerced into doing jive-talk buffoonery if they wanted any kind of career in film or television. Neither portrayal constituted or constitutes progress; it's just the same-old same-old -- the perpetuation of a ridiculous stereotype, and one that confirms the worst fears, suspicions and prejudices of that segment of the population I mentioned a minute ago -- the folks with the baseball bats.
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Reality TV has become the modern-day minstrel show of gay culture.
Homosexuals on these shows are cast almost exclusively as swishing, superficial drama-queens -- and are no doubt told to play up their "gayness" the same way that blacks were once coerced into doing jive-talk buffoonery if they wanted any kind of career in film or television. Neither portrayal constituted or constitutes progress; it's just the same-old same-old -- the perpetuation of a ridiculous stereotype, and one that confirms the worst fears, suspicions and prejudices of that segment of the population I mentioned a minute ago -- the folks with the baseball bats.
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Re: Interesting critique on ANTM
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 4:38 PMSure ANTM is horrible, Tyra a monster, the girls empty...but thats why we watch. ANTM had got to be the worst show on TV, and Ive seen every episode.
Sometimes things can ba so bad theyre good.
