Oh happy day! We get to finally see more gay and lesbian storylines on TV! Just what we’ve all been waiting for because, after all, there are not many gay and lesbian storylines coming out of Hollywood these days, are there. From Big Hollywood we learn that the hot fall TV trend is . . . . interracial lesbian relationships! I had to laugh at this quote from some guy who, believe it or not, is winning awards for “youth programming”:
Bradley Bredeweg, executive producer of The Fosters (which won the Youth Programming award at this year’s TCA Awards), told the Wrap that the inclusion of more gay and lesbian storylines means “we’re finally able to look at the real world and tell real stories.”
“We’re at a very lucky time where this is the reality, and I think the networks and the studios are finally open to that,” Bredeweg said.
Finally? The challenge in our day is to actually find a program that doesn’t have some kind of gay or lesbian character in it. Well, Mr. Bredeweg, the reality is that gays and lesbians make up less than 2% of the population, but from Hollywood you would think is 30 or 40%. According to a CDC study last year:
Contrary to popular belief, just 1.6 percent of American adults identify as homosexual, compared to 96.6 percent who say they are heterosexual, according to a large-scale, first-of-its-kind government survey recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In fact, many Americans, especially younger ones think homosexuals make up at least 25% of the population, and why wouldn’t they. They watch TV.
[…] I recently wrote a post at The American Culture about how the hot fall TV trend is interracial lesbian relationships. I argued that Hollywood has long had an agenda to normalize homosexual behavior, and because of that many Americans vastly overestimate the gay and lesbian population. One commenter, Edmond D. Smith, was kind enough to say that because I had the temerity to say such things that I am “obviously racist, sexist and homophobic.” You gotta love that: three for the price of one! In the fevered totalitarian leftist secularist progressive mind if you speak unpopular truths, to them, you are unmitigated evil. But speak we must. […]
For the record, all of the above is less important than if the ABC series “Forever” will get a second season.
“Bradley, I may be a dumbell, but you are blind if you think Hollywood doesn’t and hasn’t had an agenda to normalize homosexuality.”
The television industry has had an agenda to normalize buying Mercedes Benz cars. Has it worked, or would people reach their conclusions about Mercedes Benz cars without the advertising? How do you prove it, either way?
The FBI TV show characters are secularists, I mean. I do not know nay real FBI Agents.
“The FBI employs nearly 35,000 people, including special agents and support professionals such as intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and information technology specialists. Learn how you can join us at FBIJobs.gov. ”
310 million people in the United States, and *only 35,000* FBI Agents!
And the are all secularists!
And, yes, you can take the time to explain how many FBI agents deserve to be on TV, compared to how many FBI Agents in the real world.
So how do you prove the agenda is working, rather than just a failed attempt?
Edmond, thank you for your kind words. I have no idea what accepted narrative you are talking about because you are incoherent. Cheers!
Bradley, I may be a dumbell, but you are blind if you think Hollywood doesn’t and hasn’t had an agenda to normalize homosexuality. I can’t prove in a short blogpost that homosexuality is shown far more on TV than the population of homosexuals in America would warrant, but if I had the time and inclination to prove the obvious to anyone who isn’t totally oblivious to this fact, i.e. you, I would do it.
And what does it even mean, “where people get their ideas of homosexuality from.” Hollywood has a huge influence on cultural norms, and to deny it’s influence is secularist and liberal is again to deny the obvious.
You are obviously racist, sexist and homophobic. The proof of this is and the fact that you are presenting facts counter to the accepted narrative. And I think we know that if it comes down to facts or narrative narrative must always win.
And, to be sure, I have no idea if these comic strips, used in the “Sans everything” weblog were influential at the time. for all I know they simply reflected ideas about gays and lesbians learned from churches and law makers.
Nor have you tried to prove where the public got their ideas about homosexuality *before* television.
https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/mickey-mouse-homophobe/
Mike, you are being a dumbell. You have not, in any form tried to prove where people get their ideas about homosexuality, ot for that matter, hetrosexuality.