URNotAlone

Needing To Rant!!

March 10th, 2008 4:17 pm MDT

Ok, today I happened to be flipping through channels and stopped for a microsecond on the Jerry Springer Show. I do nto make it a habit to watch this rating grabbing ridiculous trash ever. The title of the show caught my eye though " Dancing With Gay Guys". I ;as a member of the greater GLBT community; took it as an insult and an affront to the community as a whole and to the gay faction in particular. Of course I realize that 99.9% of whatever crap Jerry dishes to his loyal followers is sensationalized to grab ratings and attention. The small portion I saw included the audience on stage dancing with the gay guy in hoedown fashion. then their neighbor who is also their friend stated that they are just to openly gay. If that was not enough then the woman : not girlfriend: that lives with their neighbor came on ranting about them going to hell cause its not natural. To add to the mockery Jerry's resident drunken minister showed up to perform the ceremony. This was all in about a two minute interval. As I say I realize that Springer is theater; be it very bad theater; meant to entertain rather than inform and mostly just planted actors you know '"I'm not gay I , I just play one on Springer." Unfortunately the intelligence level of the average Springer viewer can be measured in negative integers. This is the type of drivel that he presents today it just happened to be gays, he has done the same to transgenders, trans sexuals , lesbians and all other members under the GLBT rainbow. Unfortunately this passes as educating the masses by promoting negative stereo types about whatever group he is poking fun at that day.
I have many gay friends and I know none of them that act this way in public even in the bars and if they do its in the midst of drag entertainment which is completely different from Springer. In fact as appalling as it is for those that can not stand any gays or any other facet of the GLBT they would be shocked to discover that gays and other members of the GLBT are some of the most understanding, helpful and outstanding members of the community at large not just the GLBT. I was personally offend by the small 2 minute snippet that I watched because I took it as an affront to my friends and to the community at large because it amounted to nothing more than a parody of one segment of society. But as I realize its always easier to mock or hate something rather than try and understand it. Spronger is definitely the Saturday Night Live of talk tv rather than being thought provolking it just provolks the sensibility of anyone with a functioning brain and yet there are those that watch it and even worse believe its real as Leonard Pith Garnell used to say on Bad Theater ," there that wasn't so good was it?"