The risible notion that homosexuals are an oppressed class in the United States—they have significantly higher personal income than heterosexuals—took another blow when the Lifetime TV network announced that it had lured the reality program Project Runway away from the Bravo network.
Lifetime is paying $1 million per episode for the program which Bravo had been getting for $600,000 per.
Lifetime made the big offer as part of an effort to rebrand itself, moving away from its longtime appeal to middle-aged women toward a hipper image, chasing a younger, more urban, and more homosexual audience. Another aspect of the effort is How to Look Good Naked, a reality show which premiered on Lifetime in January and stars Carson Kressley, formerly of the Bravo show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Thus Lifetime joins Bravo and Logo as U.S. TV networks openly courting homosexual s and their high incomes almost universally unencumbered by children.
The fact that multiple TV channels are openly chasing the homosexual market tells you all you need to know about how oppressed homosexuals are in the United States today.
I have nothing against homosexual.And to say I am one.Some of us women turn away from men maybe because of there Abuse to us. some of us women, we just loose,so , the men drift.
Lifetime is suppost to be tv for women, and most women do not support homosexuality.
I am so tired of gays comparing themselves to blacks. I can’t help being black but you can help being gay…by not having sex with other men. If you’re not a christian you shouldn’t be getting married…and people who perform gay acts are not christians. Period.
Thank you for your comment, “Stringcheese.” The good news is that homosexuals do indeed have the right to marry one another in the United States, and no one stops them at all. See this article, for example. Regarding your second point, the fact that not all TV programs showing homosexuals satisfy any particular viewer’s conception of how they should be shown—in this case, yours—is of no argumentary relevance whatever, given that the same is true of every type of person shown on television. One hardly goes to television for rivetingly realistic, in-depth portraits of American life. Those who complain that TV doesn’t treat homosexuals like everybody else cannot reasonably complain when TV treats homosexuals like it treats everybody else.
The point that homosexuals are denied inalienable rights such as marriage is an argument that cannot be countered, as it is a fact. Gay people can’t get married. Mind you there are a couple of states that allow domestic partnerships. However, this applies to only a couple of places and in a domestic partnership you still do not receive the same benefits as a married couple. Also, the claim that shows like “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy” perpetuate stereotypes can’t really be argued either. If you genuinely believe that this show does an adequate job of portraying homosexuals than I highly recommend you get off your computer, take a step outside, and acquaint yourself with reality. It may be scary to leave your bubble at first, but I promise that in time you’ll learn to acclimate. Next your going to tell me that the show “Chico and the Man” fairly represents the hispanic culture. Or that Fox news really is fair and balanced!
Thanks for your comment, “Stringcheese.” As it happens, I have read a book or two, and have countered all of your arguments here, in numerous items on this site and elsewhere. Search for “homosexual”, “same-sex marriage”, and other such topics in the search box on this site, and you will find copious counterarguments against your claims.
This is a ridiculous fabrication of reality. Your statements are unequivocal. Just because they made a show called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” does not mean gays have equal rights. All that show does is perpetuate stereotypes about homosexuals, thus inducing more hatred and prejudice. Also, Constitutionally speaking they are still very much oppressed. Last time I checked America was not a Theocracy. Therefore, there is no logical reason to deny homosexuals the right to marry, as homosexually may be religiously wrong, but it is morally acceptable being as the vast majority of non-religious people condone it. Thus, regarding them as second class citizens by denying them of one of their naturally born rights is not only wrong but completely contradictory of the Constitution itself.
P.S. Read a book.