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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 11, 2017 2:24:47 GMT
If provided a third option, such as "It's up to the artists to decide whether to include them, and up to consumers to decide what they'll watch," or even a rephrasing of the single question to, for instance, "Should the makers of kids & family movies have the freedom to include gay characters," I could have participated. But what Conspirologist presents is what Marisa Tomei so eloquently described in My Cousin Vinny as a bullshit question, and being forced into an invalid metric by someone with an axe to grind is something I - even, and especially, as a gay man - must reject. Thank you for that doghouse. I am in such agreement with you that I am now having doubts about my contributions to this thread - heartfelt as they have been. In fact, I am wondering if I should even have participated in the vote.
It was clear from the get-go that your intentions were the best, so all is well. Having spent the last decade contributing regularly to various political blogs, I know how tempting it can be to get pulled into skirmishes (of which I've certainly had my share) with people like Conspirologist and others on this thread who are quickly revealed to have excluded themselves from the sphere of rational discourse, claiming unassailable authority on matters about which they clearly know nothing, and which are fueled instead by a combination of only supposition, urban legend and old wives' tales, deliberate disinformation and outright hysteria. But I figure they may also provide a public service in their small ways: during the national debate over marriage equality, for instance, I noticed that the more hysterical opposition became, the more public support for legal equality increased (as, presumably, more and more people concluded, "What a bunch of crackpots...the hell with them and their nonsense"). Plus, the more time the crackpots spend at their keyboards firing off furious messages full of vitriol, the less time they're out in the real world doing serious damage.  |
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