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January 23, 2006
If a boy wears a dress...
It's not easy to go on national TV, especially when the host is pressuring you. At least this was my experience on News Hour with Jim Lehrer last year.
Yet some people desperate for their 15 minutes decide to do stupid things, and then people get upset. If a man sings like a girl or dresses like a girl, he ought to expect to be laughed at. The people doing the laughing are perfectly normal. One can sing in a normal male voice. He also has a choice of what he wears, and if certain clothes cause him ridicule, he can wear "normal" clothes. That's what makes this story so laughable:
[American Idol] elicited a response from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) after judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson made what the gay rights group deemed questionable comments on last week’s premiere episode.On Tuesday’s show... Cowell told one male contestant to “wear a dress,” and Jackson asked another, “are you a girl?”
“The real offense here was in the producer’s decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant’s gender expression into the butt of a joke,” said Damon Ramine, a spokesman for GLAAD, in a statement posted on the group’s Web site.
Gender expression? Gays would get more acceptance if they stopped trying to shock mainstream red-blooded America at every turn. What's even worse is that transvestites are not necessarily gay--many are perfectly straight men who get a rise--so why does a gay group feel the need to "defend" them?
Posted by adrianjo at January 23, 2006 09:42 PM