compassionate conservatism needs to be better reflected on tv!

[acroyear]

Bozell: Glee is Too Realistic : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

The endlessly amusing Brent Bozell, chief of the Conservative Movement Cultural Complaints Division, aka the Media Research Center, has a column at Townhall complaining that the TV show Glee showed a couple of jocks picking on glee club kids for being (or at least being perceived as) gay.

How does "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy make it tilt into utter intolerance? It isn't through smash-mouth indoctrination. The treatments are subtle but unmistakable...

The only characters on the show disapproving of homosexuality are vicious school bullies. In the May 25 episode, two brutish football players threatened to pummel the openly gay and riotously effeminate character Kurt for dressing up like a girl.

Yeah, because that never happens. High school football players never attack the choir kids over their sometimes real and sometimes falsely perceived homosexuality. Who would ever think to put such subtle intolerance into a script about high school? I mean, other than anyone who's ever been to high school? How dare they accurately portray a scenario played out in school every single day all over the country!

So he's trying the compassionate approach - please be realistic: not all bigots are big bad men who use physical intimidation to suppress TEH GAY. Some of us bigots are much more subtle than that and TV should reflect that reality.

Comments

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Wah! They're making us mean people look mean! It's not FAAAAAIR!

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

What about Finn's whole character arc in that episode?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I never said I actually watched the damn show. Doctor Who is the *only* current television I follow. I have never seen Glee, never seen Lost, never seen Heroes, never seen 24, nor any of a zillion other things. Not a single episode of any of them.

I only see Scrubs in syndication so I still haven't seen the last season of that yet. The only reason I've even seen an episode of the American version of The Office is because it was on an airplane.

Odd that I'm only naming single-word titles, but there you go.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

The argument the wingnuts are making is that the show is "too accepting" of homosexuality and the only people in the end who don't view it as "normal" are the bad guys. When Finn ends up defending Kurt, Bozell is perturbed because someone should supposedly stand up for the people who don't approve of Kurt's lifestyle (and the rest of their acceptance of it).

L. Brent Bozo doesn't seem to be *too* bothered about the fact that all over America, every single damn day, kids do the exact same thing as those bullies, often whether or not their victims happen to be gay.