I’m terribly afraid to fly. But I get on airplanes and go on trips with my family. I tell my kids that flying isn’t my favorite thing, but it’s safe and I’m so excited to go on this trip.
I don’t want to pass all my irrational crap onto my kids.
Although the precipitating event was a TV show, this isn’t really about Glee, which is why I originally left it in MPSIMS. Since it’s been moved, though, let’s move it to IMHO, probably a better place to discuss the OP’s homophobia.
The bird that delivers babies is usually called a stork in English, so far as I know.
In less idiomatic usage, it would take a better bird expert than I to know the difference between a stork and a crane.
Yes, yes it would. It seriously would, and I’m shocked you even believe this. (And I’m a straight woman, by the way.) This isn’t like not wanting to tell your parents that you want to get your ears pierced or dye your hair pink, for heaven’s sake.
It might terrify her to come out to you. If she has even a (normal even for straight teen/pre-teen girls) friend-crush on another girl she will probably try to hide any hint of that from you. She might even try to bury her feelings so deeply that she gets into an ill-advised straight marriage, trying to run away, only to have it come apart at the seams years later, maybe after a kid or three, with heartbreak and recriminations all around. Or maybe she’d turn 18 and flee cross-country, perhaps leaving a note, not wanting to speak to you again.
How dare they use Jonathan Coulton’s original intellectual property consisting of someone else’s song?
:rolleyes: It’s right there in the link - it’s his “musical arrangement”, which is completely original from the original song’s musical arrangement. Songs are more than just their lyrics.
Hrm? The arrangement was original work. I assume both parties credited Sir Mix-A-Lot so why wouldn’t Glee credit Coulton for using his work as well?
Anyway, I stopped watching Glee by the end of season One when it stopped being a show with funny plots and became an endless series of Very Special Episodes to hang iTunes advertising on. I was, without snark, honestly surprised to learn it’s still chugging along for another season. I never hear anything about it any more these days.
If I’m reading this correctly then the license that Coulton used does not allow him protection as a derivative work AND he violated the license by changing the basic melody and character of the work.
Not that I believe that excuses FOX for not crediting him or that I think that his arrangement is not a unique work but that under current copyright law in the States it seems that Coulton is on the losing end.
This is the second most awesomely stupid and hilarious thing I’ve read in this thread behind the OP. So thanks for that.
The whole thing boils down to that internet meme of “I’m not a homophobe (racist, whatever) because even some of my best friend are gay, BUT…”
I think you might have been whooshed.
Disgusting - that’s why my TV went out the window.
All this time I thought astro was a smoking homosexual. Learn something new everyday.
I find it hilarious that there is this homophobe out there who toughs out – what is it now, about 15 seasons? – of Glee, with gay relationships and musical numbers and overall FABulousness, just grinding his teeth trying to make it through, committed to not turning the channel to something else… but then a gay kiss! No! Who could be expected to withstand that?! It’s too much. You’ve gone too far now, Glee!
Or to put it in other words, it looks like Glee has lost the one remaining homophobe watching their show. I’m not sure how they will cope with this hit to their viewing numbers.
I watched last week’s Glee (it wasn’t that bad, though I was left wondering what the hell is this Beatles song and why does it sound so sucky?).
Now it might be because I’m a flaming homosexual myself, but I didn’t find the kiss to be all that notable. It wasn’t exactly a heavy petting sort of deal with under-the-sheets stuff. They kissed after a marriage proposal. What the hell did you expect them to do? Normal people kiss after getting engaged. It’s like a fact and stuff. The episode would have been even weirder if they didn’t kiss.
“Will you marry me?”
“Yes. Yes!”
<Firm handshake> :dubious:
Well I’m the OP’s polar opposite. I never watched Glee, because I’m not all that interested in shows about high school. Then about halfway through the second season I heard all the media buzz about the first kiss between Kurt and Blaine. Reading about the storyline, it sounded like something I would enjoy, so I checked it out. I quickly became hooked on the show, especially the gay love story, and have watched it ever since. Now I’m dying to watch my recording of this season’s first episode.
I’m wondering how the OP managed to make it all the way through the actual gay love scene without giving up the show, and yet was thrown by a kiss.
astro - Glee’s gay love stories are no more or less pandering than their straight love stories. In fact, the episode about sex was notable for cutting between parallel scenes for the gay couple and the straight couple. It’s a show about high school (and now college), in which characters of various sexual orientations have romantic relationships.
FTR, I am a straight woman.
Oh really? Then what do you mean by this:
That’s your idea of “respect”? So it’s ok that I’ve loved the same man for almost 26 years, but god forbid I should ever express that love with you around, offending your delicate sensibilities? How many straight people have I watched kissing on tv or in movies? Does that qualify as something “I don’t like about you guys”? Do I boycott every show in which I’ve seen a man and a woman kissing? Hopefully your daughter, regardless of her orientation, will learn to accept people and overcome the bigotry she’s being taught at home.
My spell check recognizes “Jedi.” Who’s he the god of?
I watched part of the premier and was disgusted by all of the crude humor. Then, sometime later, one of the actresses got completely REAMED for posing in some suggestive photos for some magazine (or maybe an ad or something, don’t remember). I do remember thinking it very stupid. Really? You’ve got “13 year old boys making stupid dirty jokes out behind the school gym” humor and you’re “shocked” at some sexy pics?
It’s a shame, because the music of the show looks good, but I can’t get past the nasty tacky “humor”.
As a bird enthusiast, I can assure you that storks and cranes are as different as sparrows and finches.
Which is to say, not that much different. I thought that storks were Old World animals, but Wiki says there are three New World species.
But both cranes and storks are predatory birds with long legs and long beaks.