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ABC receives complaints about Chaz Bono's addition to 'DWTS'

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Shevanel, Aug 31, 2011.

  1. Shevanel

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  2. maverick

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    They should just have a woman dance with a woman and a man dance with a man this season. ABC obviously doesn't have a problem showing homosexual couples. Same-sex dancing partners (regardless of actual orientation) should be a snap.

    Problem solved.

    This is the kind of guy I like to open doors for when I'm all butched out, just to be a prick and make a point.

    I actually held the door open earlier for a woman with a KILL AMERICAN SOCIALISM! sticker and 'merican flags and all that other pseudo-patriotic shit plastered all over the back of her wheelchair. I could read her blatant disapproval of my appearance when I did it - you know, the OMG-queer!!!!! deer-in-the-headlights look - but when I held the door open for her with my biggest why-here-ya-go-missus shit-eating grin, she was too sheepish to not say thank you.

    [Ironically, I was holding the door open to the "Special Needs" changing rooms for her, because we both use them. Her because she can't walk, and me because I can't use the woman's locker room without having to worry about getting security called on me, even though I have the requisite genitalia to be there.]

    I go out of my way to be nice to people I think would disapprove of my "lifestyle choice"...:rolle: Partially because I want to make a perspective-changing impression, but also because part of me loves the fact that bigots are galled by it.

    I go to the same YMCA as you and your innocent little Tea Party fundamentalist Christian kids. Trannies use your gym equipment and swim in the same pool with you. We're in your shopping malls and your grocery stores. We're in line with you at the post office and the DMV.

    In the words of Ivan E. Coyote, HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!? :lol:
     
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    I should start writing letters for any show that has fundiementalist christian characters, saying I refuses to reject jesus by subjecting my (hypothetical) children to bigotted, ignorant, immoral fundie christians.
     
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    This article = Facepalm.
     
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    In the Norwegian version of the show a few years back we had one of our TV-famous t-people in the contest. He's afaik just a crossdresser. Married with kids and all. They paired him with a woman on the show, and since he would always dance in drag, the whole who-the-hell-is-the-woman issue came up. Since couple-dance have specific gender roles, two people dancing as women apparently was a big problem to the judges who always gave them bad scores. The audience and the viewers always saved them from elimination by giving them lots of votes though, so they lasted quite long into the season.

    That was one man comfortable with dancing in heels I'll tell ya :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    If they let Pat Robertson's racisem, sexisem, homophobia, and christofacisem on the air, I think we can stand to watch chaz bono gliding across a dance floor.

    I bet there are alot of southern baptist who already wouldnt let their kids watch the show... some of them are so fundementalist that they view as dancing to be a form of sexual relationship, and ban their kids from doing it until after they are married.
     
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    I'm usually not a huge fan on Bill Maher but he made a good point about this on twitter "To the morons attacking #Chaz Bono for being on DWTS: we sure wldnt want a transgender person to taint a macho institution like DWTS!". Just made me laugh, because really folks, it's just freggin Dancing With the Stars.
     
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    Well said! :eusa_clap