In one chat room, a father lamented that Burnell being on the show forced him to have conversations with his child about disabilities.
Damn those disabled people, and also the sodomites and coloureds and everybody else we don't like. Why can't they stay in their ghetto like they're supposed to?
Lordstar, could you find some of these people and smack some sense into them?
First there comes criticism, then there comes acceptance. A lot of people are upset by the presence of disability, but by being exposed to it, they will accept it. Of course it's hard for enlightened people like ourselves to even consider that there might be something to accept in the first place, but just bare with it, they'll catch up eventually.
I had the pleasure of watching sesame street for the first time since I was a kid and was surprised at how strong the message was regarding acceptance/tolerance of everyone. Did the religious right have a problem with this show?
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Eugenics: you know it's right!
"Bert and Ernie are two grown men sharing a house and a bedroom. They share clothes, eat and cook together and have blatantly effeminate characteristics. In one show, Bert teaches Ernie how to sew. In another, they tend plants together. If this isn't meant to represent a homosexual union, I can't imagine what it's supposed to represent." - rev. Joseph Chambers
Sesame Street used to be shown in the UK as well, and the people complaining probably grew up watching it themselves so i'm not sure why they think this is new or dangerous. Sometimes I think the world is moving backwards.
EDIT: Its interesting to note that some parents in the UK didn't like Sesame Street, not because it portrayed racial harmony and tolerance of disabilities, but because it was seen as polluting our children's minds with Americanisms.
Millions of people watch the BBC.
Only 25 people made official complaints about the disabled presenter.
I love the way the media likes to blow things out of proportion.
I think the English are much more accepting of things than the Americans. I raised a few eye brows in the States just by speaking truths. I wish we lived in a world where we could speak the truth. F*ck all that PC crap.
Dungeons and Dragoons cartoon was supposed to be cutting a fine line back in the 80's. These days they don't even show road runner and bugs bunny.
Just a test question here. If your kid laughed at somebody farting loud what would you do as a parent?
A) Smack him/her one round the head (true 80's style)
B) Giggle along yourself finding it funny because they find it funny
C) Write to the BBC and blame them for it!!
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
fd_analog wrote:Millions of people watch the BBC.
Only 25 people made official complaints about the disabled presenter.
I love the way the media likes to blow things out of proportion.
Ah, that's more or less the way it is in the U.S. too. Remember Janet Jackson and the "wardrobe malfunction?"
However, you have to wonder...since those are the only people crazy enough to make an official complaint (even if it's just picking up the phone), there's a lot more people who wish they didn't have to deal with this and wishes it would go away, as the one father said.
fd_analog wrote:Millions of people watch the BBC.
Only 25 people made official complaints about the disabled presenter.
I love the way the media likes to blow things out of proportion.
Ah, that's more or less the way it is in the U.S. too. Remember Janet Jackson and the "wardrobe malfunction?"
The FCC actually got hundreds of thousands of complaints about that. However, it's important to note that in the US there are political organizations that essentially exist for no other purpose than to manufacture outrage over this kind of stuff and lament the "moral decline" of the nation while advocating broad censorship (e.g. the Parents' Television Council). And then there are the pseudo-Christian political organizations like Focus on the Family and the Catholic League that regularly join in the fun. A huge number of the complaints that the FCC gets are not people acting individually, but rather reflect active campaigns organized by these political organizations.
neorichieb1971 wrote:I think the English are much more accepting of things than the Americans. I raised a few eye brows in the States just by speaking truths. I wish we lived in a world where we could speak the truth. F*ck all that PC crap.
Dungeons and Dragoons cartoon was supposed to be cutting a fine line back in the 80's. These days they don't even show road runner and bugs bunny.
Just a test question here. If your kid laughed at somebody farting loud what would you do as a parent?
A) Smack him/her one round the head (true 80's style)
B) Giggle along yourself finding it funny because they find it funny
C) Write to the BBC and blame them for it!!
I've always found that people that complain about PC crap the most, are the ones who cry the loudest when it's not going their way. lol
Speak "truths" all you want, but be prepared to hear a few "truths" that you may not like. Also what kind of "truths" are you talking about?
the thing which made me laugh was the fact one of the fathers complained about having to explain disabilities to his child.
But what it sounded like to me was
Oh my god i had to sit down with my child and teach it something! My taxes pay for the CBBC not so i have to teach my child but so i can pop it down in front of the TV and not have to teach it things about the world.
You could say the same thing about . . .Lets say A white child from a almost entirley white area is the child is under six there is a good chance he may have never seen someone of difrent colour and diversity. So thats why you should only have white people on Childrens TV. This is not my view this is just a crazy thought that passed though my head.
there was a cartoon I saw a few years back and one of the kids in it only had one arm. There was a dog on the 101 dalmations cartoon called tripod with you guessed it three legs.
I say we do away with tv presneters all togther and just have it all CG with green skin and putple hair. . .I can totally realte to that and feel safe not having to sit down with my child and not have to explain life to them.
