, that attitude makes approximately as much (or little) sense as being offended over representations of the color green.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Ok, lets find the most asinine example possible and use that one. Lets get offending by anyone with the name Robert or who may be bald or wear glasses.
I have nothing against actors who may be gay. I am a big fan of the old "Perry Mason" series with Raymond Burr. No one knew he was gay and he never had any heterosexually obvious scenes in the many years he was on TV. There was an article after his death praising him for his "gayness". To me Burr was an actor who was gay and not a "gay actor" if you can understand the difference. Which I doubt.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I don't know why you would feel it necessary (or appropriate) to be snarky and "doubt" that I understand something.
Raymond Burr was one of my favorite actors when I was growing up. Watching re-runs of 'Perry Mason' is one of my earliest memories, though I'm sure it was mostly over my head when I was three or four. I was 13 in '67 when the series premiere of 'Ironside' came on, which I remember watching on the old black & white console t.v. in my mother's old bedroom at my grandparents' house. (Tiny Tim made his television debut in that episode as 'Art House Performer'.)
I remember reading about Burr's supposed past life according to the studios and his publicity people, consisting of three marriages and a deceased son. His first wife was said to have died in a plane shot down by the Nazis in 1943 (shades of Leslie Howard), his third wife was supposed to have died of cancer in 1955, and he also was said to have had a young son who died of leukemia. In fact, only the second wife (who was really the first and only wife) existed. They divorced amicably after a short marriage and she never "outed" him.
Whether an actor is gay in real life matters not to me at all; on that we agree. Only a very small number of gay actors seek to be stereotyped as gay, because they don't want to be limited to doing only those parts.
At any rate, my point was simply that fewer people today, in particular younger people, are offended or bothered by seeing a gay character on the movie or television screen or by hearing a character speak positively or approvingly about someone being gay; that's not my opinion, it's a fact. At the same time, I am of the opinion - stated here any number of times now - that gay people, along with interracial couples and Black authority figures, are wildly over-represented on t.v. I think it's silly - but not evil. I feel as though I should be able to openly criticize the trend as unrealistic...but at the same time, pretty much everything you see on a lot of shows is unrealistic; what's one more thing?...without being accused of being a homophobe or a racist.
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