BBC Forced to Defend Gay Kiss After Complaints

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ReservoirAngel

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TwitchyGamer101 said:
Confusing children? THAT'S WHERE YOU STEP IN PARENTS, DO YOUR JOB.

Overreaction over the most pointless junk.
You can'r be serious! You can't expect parents to talk to their children about 'difficult' subjects. It's the government's sole job to make sure that never happens by not letting children see anything that's not normal to them!
 

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GamerPhate said:
Mate, the more you try and justify your comments, the bigger a homophobe you look.

Most straight people aren't that offended by homosexuality. A kiss is just a kiss. It's good to see anyone happy and in love.

and for the record, quit with the outdated sterotypes. Most of the gay guys I know are geeky sci-fi fans.........no rollerblading........no raging queens......just normal blokes who happen to prefer dick.
 

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ReservoirAngel said:
It's not over 60 million that are homophobic, it's the 125 that are homophobic enough to complain, and even then it's out of the however-many actually watch these crappy shows.
First off it's people's right to not approve of homosexuality as long as they don't victimise or persecute homosexuals or encourage others to do so. If you're waiting for universal approval you'll be waiting a long time so you're better off looking at the portion of people that object enough to actually say something about it. Frankly I think less than one person in 480,000 complaining is a pretty damn good ratio.

Secondly these kind of people will complain without having seen the show, it's happened before, kind of like Amazonbombing a game you've never played. It's more the concept than the execution that bothers people.

Much as I approve of equality for different sexualities I find it very hard to get my fuck-giving on for 125 people who felt it was inappropriate/disgusting. Hell, if you pick a random nationality I bet you've got more Brits that hate it than hated this!
With this comment you've won the internet. Congrats.
 

LuckyClover95

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TimeLord said:
"The BBC has has to defend a gay kiss on Holby City, just a week after more than 100 viewers complained about a gay scene in EastEnders."

There are two parts of the article that is linked below that I find anger inducing.

"Viewers complained that a kiss between Dan Hamilton (Adam Astill) and Antoine Malick (Jimmy Akingbola) was ?inappropriate?."
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"One viewer complained that it could ?confuse? children."

Props to the BBC for actually including gay characters in their shows, but having to defend showing them to the public just boggles my mind. Especially that second comment about "confusing children". Children shouldn't be confined to a bubble world where everything is safe and normal. Newsflash complainers; gay people exist and are just like you!

-30 Faith in Humanity

Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/06/17/bbc-now-has-to-defend-holby-city-gay-kiss/ via Logan Westbrook's Twitter/Escapist Water Cooler

EDIT: Several people have brought up Doctor Who and Torchwood, both of which are also shown by the BBC. Both of which show Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) kissing the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and having a very unsubtle gay relationship with Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) in Torchwood.
AWESOME DISPLAY PIC!
Back to the subject this is sick. You're right, gay people exist - it's more confusing to children to not show them, because then when children see gay people together they will get confused, if they are shown other sexualities from a young age then they'll be used to them.
 
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... The average viewer ship for an episode of EastEnders being over 10 million

The average viewer ship for Holby City is over 5 million.

This complaint is less than 0.1 percent by quite a bit... why does anyone give two flying shits.
 

LuckyClover95

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More than a hundred people? A whole hundred? I reckon if we could get all the supporters of gay representation to write in, we'd be counting millions...
Why are you never on the off topic or gaming forums? You're always on RP but I never see you in these ones.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeey
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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Meh, children watch Doctor Who, and John Barrowman snogged Christopher Ecclestone in fairly short order.
My 7 year old nephew although highly confused was understanding after we explained gay relationships to him. If you just leave them like that they tend to remain confused. Silly complainers.

It was slightly more disturbing when at the checkout of a very busy local supermarket he said loudly;
'Mum what's ''dry humping''?'
the credit goes to the cover of Heat magazine for that one.
 

messy

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100 people. Seriously that's nothing. Clearly not that big of a deal. Plus if anything is going to confuse the children its all the murder and betrayal that happens, I assume, in Eastenders. Might be nice to seem some compassion for another human being.
 

TimeLord

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TimeLord said:
TheIronRuler said:
When I saw that, 'Cpt. Jack Harkins' popped into my head for a moment.
He shares a kiss with another bloke somewhere in my mind, I can't remember where I saw that.
I respect the BBC for having the balls to defend what they throwed in the air, and not backing down from it like little children. Assuming that the BBC is a male.
Now I need to get back to my Shnitzels on the flying pan.
He kisses Eccleston in Doctor Who. And has an openly gay relationship with Ianto Jones in Torchwood.
Was there any public outcry when they showed that in the BBC?
I can't remember, I watch it a few months after release in my Television set.
Not that I remember, I would have thought I'd have heard about it if there was.
 

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This makes me sick. It's a free society, people should be allowed to decide and chose on what they do in their life. the fact some people have to complain and then moan about "confusing our children" is just despicable. The train of thought for this kind of bigotry should have been lost in the 1800's.

What are people coming too these days?
 

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Not really seeing the big issue here

Firstly, it is well within peoples rights to complain about something they don't like. I see most of the forum doing that here. I'm not saying you can't complain, but complaining about people complaining just sounds... odd.

Secondly, it was only 100 people are so, correct? That's hardly much

Thirdly, why is this an issue? I mean, really? Why?
 

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THREE CHEERS FOR THE BBC! HIP HIP OH YEAH! HIP HIP OH YEAH! HIP HIP OH YEAH!

No, really, fantastic job, they should get some sort of award for this. Instead of apologizing (and thereby implying that there's something inherently wrong with homosexuality, and that they were being edgy) they've stuck to their guns and told people to screw off (reinforcing the idea that there's nothing wrong with being homosexual, and that people who think that are wrong).

This is a good thing. I'm going to say that again because it's worth saying again This is a good thing. People should be flooding the streets of London saying, "Do more of this! We want equality! We want to pass that idea on to our children, and their children, just like our parents did!"

Every day I wake up and find a reason to smile, nod, and say, "Yeah." Today was a good day.
 

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I have an idea, if children find a gay kiss confusing then just say "people can date people the same gender aswell" THAT'S ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO MOTHER!

ARGH! i'm angry
 

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electric_warrior said:
Kids should be confused sometimes. Confusion forces you to think about an issue so as to understand it and find greater clarity. I wish there was a greater drive to confuse people, maybe it would shake their complacency away a little more.
You know, when I was a kid, I was confused all the time. I asked a ridiculous amount of questions on everything, because I wanted to know what was happening. I probably would be less intelligent today if I lived in some bubble of a world where everything was happy and simple.
 

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GamerPhate said:
#1 Tolerance is NOT acceptance. I can tolerate what you do if I don't see it.
Well I'm glad you don't want homosexuals exterminated from the face of the Earth. How magnanimous of you. If you can't even bear the possible sight gay men doing gay things

GamerPhate said:
#2 Thank god I don't represent this hell hole of a planet, but sure I can turn off the tv if I hate what is going on. Although with the case of Glee, I have no such option as my GF likes the show, so I am forced to turn away and go la la la la. Also, you missed the point of the paragraph. I was showing an extreme example of the opposite situation to get you an idea where everyone else is coming from besides your view on the world. In an attempt to get you to see WHY everyone does not like to see this.
You don't need to explain why people don't like seeing it. I don't like seeing it. As a straight dude, watching homosexual acts makes me kind of uncomfortable.

Then again, most reality TV makes me uncomfortable. What you need to explain is why this particular thing shouldn't be allowed on TV.

GamerPhate said:
#3 If you live in San Fransico I am sure, but in the mid west we don't have guys in daisy dukes rollerblading holding hands.
i live in a rural suburb in upstate NY. <a href=http://saratogian.com/articles/2011/06/15/news/doc4df96382c9af5905930351.txt?viewmode=2>Our Republican state Senator just suddenly announced his support for marriage equality. No daisy-duke rollerblading sightings as of yet.

GamerPhate said:
#4 This is called lieing to your kids so that they can try to attempt to feel normal. I am sure that in a situation where one of the parents was partially gay/bi, they would be much more accepting of either way their kids go. But biologically, the only way we reproduce is placing a mans seed into a womans belly, as your parents did to create you. Most parents create kids in hopes that they do the same and continue the genetic alignment that makes them unique. I don't care about adoption or borrowing a chicks tummy, that isn't what I am talking about here.
It's actually called tolerance; you know, the thing you like to pretend you have. Gay children are perfectly normal. It's no more unusual than being left-handed. Would my parents like my brother and I to have kids someday? Certainly. But they'd also respect our decision not to have children, if that's what we wanted; just as my grandparents respected my aunt (happily, heterosexually married for 25 years) when she decided to never, ever have children.

As for adopted or surrogate children, well, you don't love them any less either. Genetics are overrated, really: the way you raise a child is going to be a much larger influence than whoever's genes they happen to have.

GamerPhate said:
I am talking about biology, procreation that is productive, and the continuing of mankind. If in theory in a way distant future where everyone was gay, I can imagine the population would dwindle quite a bit, although everyone will have expensively nice furniture and drapes with matching throw pillows. But that time is not now, these are the times we live in, and get use to it.
Well it's a good thing the entire population of the Earth is never going to suddenly and spontaneously turn gay. There will always be heterosexuals, just as throughout human history, there have always been homosexuals.

you know, my first impression was that you honestly thought you were being tolerant and were just misinformed. seeing how eagerly you toss around ridiculous gay stereotypes, however, i'm not nearly so sure.