That's it. Won't watch Glee anymore.

Eww gross

Now, now. It’s not that he doesn’t understand the sexual orientation; he’s simply decided they’re loathsome to his sight, so by extension should not be shown where his daughter will be challenged by them. BIG difference.

I think it’s an important lesson to teach your kids. That way before she brings home her boyfriend or girlfriend she’ll know to warn them about your “views.”

True. But be sure to tell your daughter that kissing girls is a great goodness as well. :slight_smile:

Not a Glee watcher or a homophobe, and not sure if the Glee scenario was similar but there is point in some shows where the action is so obviously pandering it’s a bit disconcerting. Star Trek Enterprise had the character T’Pol who was very attractive, but one episode having her go into heat and get all Vulcan slutty was off putting. I thought she was very attractive, but the scenario was so grotesquely a play for ratings using her T&A appeal it was kind of repellent.

I liked that episode, it expanded out knowledge of the Vulcan species.
And Denobulans too, remember that Phlox was able to resist something that Tucker couldn’t.

Stupid spellchecker knows “Vulcan” but not “Denobulan”. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[offtopic]Vulcan’s the Roman god of fire. Denobulan… isn’t.[/offtopic]

Whats to get? My kids understood it at 5.

It was a 30 sec conversation. “Some boys love girls. Some boys love boys. Some girls love girls. Would you like a cookie?”

By Zeus and Zoroaster, it appears you are correct!

I always thought Glee was aimed at the gay man demographic, it’d be weird not to have two men kissing on it.

Seriously, this is the least big deal imaginable. When my daughter was around 2 or 3, she started asking about people getting married, and whether everyone had a mama and a daddy, and we explained about different family structures, and she was every bit as shocked and confused as when we explained that the red light means stop and the green light means go. It was just another piece of information about the world for her.

It’s much more difficult to explain to kids why some people are bigots.

Seems like kind of a strange reason to stop watching Glee when there are so many other reasons. Still, it makes me feel nostalgic for the '70s, when I, too, felt uncomfortable watching two men kiss.

Adolescence cured me of that, so there’s still hope for your daughter.

Unfortunately, you’re not the last intolerant person on earth. But I hope your daughter has other role models in her life who can help her see and accept the range of human sexuality as natural rather than disgusting and something to be hidden.

Cookies!?! What kind of perverts are you raising? :stuck_out_tongue:

Two guys kissing is probably the least gay thing that has ever happened on Glee.

See, I thought I had it down until the bit about cookie-love…

I gave up on Glee about the middle of season two, when it started getting lousy, but I’ll state my opinion anyway. While I’m not gay, I’ve sort of hated the way they wrote Kurt, as I’ve never understood equating being a gay man with being a woman or wanting to be a woman. There was an ep where they split the club into boys vs. girls and Kurt headed off with the girls and they had to explain he was with the boy’s team. WTH? That comes off like they’re saying he’s not so much gay as sexually confused.

That aside, I hate the tv trope of the super-chaste gay couple, where we see straights romping about in their underwear while Willow and Tara only gaze into each other’s eyes until the show is moved to a network that doesn’t give a damn.

“Prolonged kissing”? Wasn’t there a scene last year or the year before in which Kurt and Blaine made out in the back of a limo? In other words, this is hardly new.

I used to like Glee for the music and dancing (especially Heather) but after awhile it became more about being gay and less about music. I’m old enough and smart enough to not need constant reminders that gay people are discriminated against. Keep pushing it at me and I’ll go somewhere where the focus is on something I actually care about.

Well?

If she turns out gay, she’ll deal with it her own way. It won’t hurt to let her know how I feel at the start. I like to shut off crazy politicians on tv, and gays get much much more respect than that.

You can spare me lectures that gays are real people deserving of respect. They get that from me. And I know you’re not treating me as a troglodyte. I have had a conventional upbringing; not too old-fashioned or repressive or conditioned in any unusual way. In fact, there are a number of blatantly covert gay men and women who count me as their friend. So let’s turn it from me to gays in general, why don’t we?

No matter how acceptable you (gays) become, there will be those who will find you, or some aspect of you, objectionable; and it will be the height of naivete to be wondering why. Some of your actions offend people, regardless of who stands on the righteous side. You can go and fight people who are prejudiced against you, that’s your right. You can knock at my door and tell me just how wrong I am, but that’s as far as you’ll go with me. I make it clear what I don’t like about you guys.