Last I checked, the gay population in America stands at around 6%, albeit subject to huge demographic variation so leave me alone on that. But on this show it's over 25%, and I'm not exaggerating. And they have all been discriminated against in their past, and we have to be told about it.
And you wonder why in surveys, Americans indeed do think the LGBTQ+ population is in the 20% range.
Statements are made such as "White cops just go to work so they can take pleasure in beating up blacks" (paraphrasing). The setting is Boston.
Black Lives Matters posters placed in the background.
Homeless people all shown as victims. Because the shelters are all full.
All Asian kids are discriminated against at school.
All Rideshare drivers are shown as discriminatory because one of them won't pick up a character in a wheelchair. So the wheelchair guy rebels and becomes a rideshare driver himself.
A professor comments that the wheelchair-bound character must've used "that" to jump the waiting list for her class. (She's white, so she's automatically evil). There is one white couple on the show, but he's half-Hispanic.
White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt, White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt, White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt, White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt, White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt, White guilt, white, guilt, white guilt.
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Kowalski (63764)
a year ago
EASY ANSWER...STOP FEELING GUILTY.
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davebuffalo (3149)
a year ago
I don't feel one ounce of guilt. But I'm tired of being labeled as evil by the liberal media because I'm a straight, white, professional, able-bodied male.
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Kowalski (63764)
a year ago
YOU SOUND GUILTY...THAT DESCRIPTION FITS ME AS WELL...YET I FEEL NO GUILT AND HARBOR NO RESENTMENT TOWARDS TV SHOWS OR THEIR CREATORS.
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davebuffalo (3149)
a year ago
I don't FEEL guilty. Honest. But I'm tired of liberals telling me that I should feel guilty because of my White Privilege. I just finished blasting Colin Kaepernick over on his board for his BS attacks on his parents and the NFL. Now that dude is feeling some serious guilt for being a rich "black" guy. (or half-black anyway).
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
Well, isn't it a good thing that Kapernick is taking some responsibility for his own privilege? At least he's not just pointing the finger at everyone else (which is what I hate). Taking responsibility is admirable.
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
Are you male, Kowalski?
Also, we all have different levels of mental health. As kind and compassionate people, isn't on us to make every feel good about themselves, rather than presussuring them to beat themselves up?
Now, I don't know the programme davebuffalo is referring to, and from what he says about it, it doesn't sound like its intent is to make him or anyone else feel guilty, at the same time, I do think we should treat mental health and self-esteem seriously, whoever it pertains to.
For instance, yesterday, I saw a list which said "20 Things Men To Say To Women That Make Them Feel Bad", and yet most of those things could apply to stuff women say to men. The implication was that despite higher rates of male suicide, a woman's mental health is more precious and fragile than a man's, rather than taking a more equitable approach (i.e. let's be nice to everyone).
I also saw a protest in London about how female bike-riders feel unsafe on our roads. Well, I feel unsafe as a *male* bike-rider, and none of the things these women were protesting about were specific to their gender (it didn't pertain to sexual harassment, and since most cyclists wear helmets, you couldn't even argue that men were being ignorant towards female cyclists purposefully on account of their gender).
Why divide people on account of things that actually apply universally? What's the point? Does it make people feel better about themselves, or do they have their heads so far up their asses, that they don't realise what they're complaining about also affects other people?
Self-absorption is one word for it.
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
In all sincerity, why do you find 25% gay characters offensive or some form of attack on you, or any other straight person?
How do you know the statement about cops is the opinion of everyone working on the show, and not just that of the fictional character speaking?
As someone who works with homeless people and finds that many struggle to find shelter, what's so upsetting/wrong about the way they're portrayed here?
And why do you feel so protective about Rideshare drivers based on how *one* fictional Rideshare character is portrayed?
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davebuffalo (3149)
a year ago
In all sincerity, why do you find 25% gay characters offensive?
I like for shows to convey reality. I admit, prior to say 2015, media did not fairly portray minorites and the LGBTQ+ community. They showed what the white writers felt, and what the Jewish producers wanted.
To now go overboard and portray society as 25% gay, and 25% black, and all cops hate blacks, is just plain untrue. I call BS on that. How do I make myself more clear?
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
Unfortunately, after decades in which POC and LGBTQ+ people were ENTIRELY ignored or misrepresented, some filmmakers and showrunners now feel obliged to make-up for that marginalisation by effectively 'stuffing' their 'content' with unrepresentative demographics. Hopefully, things will eventually even-out to where we see films and shows with an *accurate* representation of actual social demographics.
But whilst I instinctively hate the idea of "it's now our turn" when it comes to various demographics (since we're not all homogenous groups, but individuals), I still get it. I still get why POC and other minorities look at several decades worth of media and think "Where are we? It's all white men on the screen!"
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davebuffalo (3149)
a year ago
I never gave a damn that "Fat Albert" and "The Cosby Show" were all black. I'm not a snowflake like most liberals.
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cyguration (3944)
a year ago
It's this kind of complacency to subversion that just makes me hate the media push for this degeneracy even more.
People's acceptance of it is almost worse than the actual subversion itself.
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