5.01.2008

Gay People Kissing? Call 911

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

(It's kind of a long respond but read it, please.)
Te sacastes el dedo, Louie! Anyways, Dana the blonde lady at around -5:21 is actually being really nice. Too nice in the West and East Coast, but not in the South. I guess she figures gay people get treated like shit in the South so why not make them feel welcomed. Then the ABC guy is like, Dana goes on and on about acceptance. "On and on," as if this was somehow annoying. I thought they were bitching about nonacceptance. Seriously, there is no pleasing that asshole. Oh yeah, the San Diego guy who wants a gun makes me very, very scared. I can imagine what all these people think of Mexicans. On second thought, I don't want to.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, not to get all pseudo-nerdy but, actually...

This piece raises several questions:
Why is it OK for women and not for men to kiss in public?

Obviously, we have created sexual constructs for men and women. Men are supposed to be masculine, i.e. not sexual objects. Males have roles reserved for them that are outside of the boundaries of the shallow sexual object construct. Men find it acceptable to see women kiss because of the roles we have reserved for them, largely exclusive only to sexual pleasure. Seeing women kiss, therefore, feeds into the image of them as sexualized and sexual beings.

Oh yeah, North and South: that goes back to the Civil War. We've had this image that the North is far more progressive than the South. Not so fast. The boundary between both is artificial and non-existent. There is a difference between the two but it is practically unnoticeable, hence the same reactions of disgust.

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