I’ve been predicting since Trump was re-elected that within four years, LGBT content will be purged from streaming services. Netflix and Disney will probably end up doing it before they’re forced to.
If media can turn someone gay than rationally the inverse should be true as well so why are there still gay people when the media is 99% non gay stuff?
So… watching fox news can make my trans and gay friends hetero and alter their gender? I’m doubtful.
No, but it can make them hateful and alter their grasp on reality.
It’ll absolutely make them self hating. Pretty sure that’s been proven repeatedly in the GOP
When they say “turn”, they mean “learn”.
They want their children to live a life of denial and never learn that they are allowed to feel the way they do.
What about gay content?
God dammit, PBS, right before pride month? They already took your fucking money. Why should my trans ass be donating to make up for it?
Wasn’t PBS, it was WNET. An affiliate.
An affiliate who has done shitty things before, like bend the knee to the Koch brothers.
Is POV (the PBS series) not a nationwide, PBS produced program rather than an individual station program? The Atlantic article mentioned at the end talks about POV having a trans gamer themed episode canceled because of potential backlash.
Even if the content was produced by PBS, it was the affiliate that blocked it from airing.
The Atlantic article indicates PBS executives were involved with the decision and removed it from PBS.org, which an affiliate station presumably couldn’t do.
Better to lay down one battle to keep fighting a war.
Anyone who thinks the inclusion of trans people in public life is a battle worth laying down can kiss my trans ass.
It wasn’t PBS broadly, it was a specific affiliate station in New York.
PBS is being threatened as a whole, and not just because they’re inclusive, but because they are an entity for the public benefit, and the current assholes at large hate that sort of thing. I sincerely doubt they want to do this, but if there’s any hope of them continuing their mission, how do you propose they handle it? I’m really not trying to be a dick here, and it’s horseshit that we’re at this point as a society, but I can see where they’re at.
We used to get excited and sang along to Culture Club music videos when they came on TV. Never once wanted to dress like Boy George.
Some of us did, but it still didn’t destroy the world or hurt anyone at all.
Some of us did, and nothing happened, nothing changed. At worse, people learned to be more tolerant, oh my word
I used to have my sister put makeup on me, and use shopping bags to make “dresses” which we’d then stuff with fake boobs. I thought it was awesome and great fun creativity. I’m straight AF, but still flamboyant AF. You are what you are.
Yup, you do you and I’ll do me and we’ll live happily side by side.
Bert and Ernie tried to make me gay. And don’t even get me started on that Count guy. Like, is that seriously what he’s wearing?
It’s called fashion, honey. You wouldn’t understand it.
Ernie is the coziest of bottoms.
Fucking cowards.
Why PBS, WHY?
Honestly fucking stupid.
You think these hogs care that you removed the content? It’s not about the content! They just hate public media! You can never conform to their standards because their standards are solely about privatisation.
With friends like these…
Pretty misleading. This isn’t “PBS,” it’s one member station doing it to their local content.
As the Trump administration intensifies its attacks, PBS has bent the knee in another way to dampen potential blowback by removing a scene in an Art Spiegelman documentary in which the graphic novelist Spiegelman discusses an anti-Trump cartoon. PBS also pulled a gaming documentary with trans themes, only to relist it after The Atlantic asked about its deletion.
Sounds like it’s not just the local station engaging in shenanigans.
Can I complain too? Because the GOP is turning kids to suicide because they are having a miserable life for not being allowed who they are. You really have the mental capacity of a can of mountain dew if you think “gay” is an option, a choice, something which can change. The only thing that can change are the limited dumb fucks who believe in an imaginary guy in the clouds with super powers (which he only uses for crual things somehow) by stopping abusing others and forcing children into their expectations. It’s literally child abuse what they are doing. And they are making the rules, instead of being trialed.
I’m fine with public access not having gay themed children’s stuff. That ad where Hilary Duff says it’s not cool to say the bundle of sticks slur. That stuff should be safe and that’s all that’s important for kids. Tell kids it’s ok to play with Barbie’s and pink. Don’t embellish this toddlers and tiaras degeneracy where kids call themselves bonequeefa. When puberty comes our world now has resources everywhere. It’s not like me thirsting over the logo channel cause my dad didn’t know it was part of the cable package. It’s only a few years. Young people know more and more that they aren’t alone so we’ve done good. Let the bigots stay in darkness.
What’s unsafe about kids learning about trans or gay people? Do those people not exist in the world until a child turns 18 or something?
More importantly, why is it OK that children only.get exposed to Christian stuff even though churches are dangerous places for kids? Why do we let them decide for everyone else? Who gave them that authority?
As a Jew, I was exposed to a lot of Christmas movies and media with Christian values as a child. Guess what? Still Jewish.
Also Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard taught me lots of science. Guess what? Still failed chemistry and still dumb as fuck.
This shows you why echo chambers of all designs are bad. It’s why I hate the down vote arrow, and wished that it disappeared off the face of this planet. People got frustrated when that happened with Youtube though, so shrugs. Please keep being a witty one =)
Youtube dislikes don’t do anything. I’d rather have both up and downvotes so you could see the vibe of a particular community. Reddit took it too far, hiding anything with a few downvotes and treating it as a currency, without that (like on here) it’s fine.
Out of respect for you, I said “go fuck yourself” while I upvoted your comment.
I was at a confirmation to a boy a couple of days ago, where the uncle is gay. The uncle hadde a speech that started with "When [name] was in kindergarten, he said ‘I want a boyfriend, like my uncle Tom has, because he’s so happy’. Damn, that was funny. Especially since the boy is as straight today. There’s NOTHING wrong with children being exposed to different people. Fuck the GOP and their hateful minds. Let people be people, you closeted bigots!
