I eagerly awaited the premier of a dramatic series on television this week. But, in the first 15 minutes I was ready to switch channels. The dramatic series storyline includes a gay main character. This is the world we live in. But for some reason the writers for the television show decided that the act of these two male characters kissing lustfully was essential to the story line. Well I don't think it was. It just seemed another attempt for the television entertainment industry to push out to the viewer the image of same sex relationships being the norm. Since the industry has decided to push out that image I have decided to push back and will no longer watch that dramatic series unless they tone down the same sex story line.
There are several television shows that depict same sex relationships. The entertainment industry for some reason has decided that this is what people want to see. Men kissing each other. Women kissing and groping each other. What was pornography in the 1960s is now mainstream television in the year 2015. My individual reaction is to watch something else, because I have a choice. As a writer I can also write stories that don't depict same sex relationships. I have a choice. Will those stories ever be produced and be on television? The odds are against that ever happening, but that isn't important to me. Just as writers have the freedom to write stories that depict same sex relationships, I have the right to depict stories that don't depict same sex relationships.
What I don't like is the entertainment industry thinking that most people want to see same sex relationships on mainstream television. The entertainment industry is promoting same sex relationships as being the norm. The entertainment industry doesn't care if young kids see these images or if the young kids copy these images.
Thankfully we have a choice to switch channels. I am exercising that choice.
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