There is absolutely no difference from what you’re about to read below and those who defended the Motion Picture Production Code. These people are prigs, censors, and humorless moralists of the highest order:
To me, the series premiere of ABC’s new, Tim Allen-led sitcom Last Man Standing seemed simply annoying, what with its low-brow and overly testosterone-fueled humor. Macho jokes about what it means to be a man? Simply not my cup of tea, I thought. I was going to turn it off a few minutes in, but I kept watching half-heartedly until the show’s lead character Mike — played by Allen — uttered a “joke” somewhere near the end of the first half hour. And that’s when I lost it.
Let me set up the “joke” for you: During a conversation about his grandson’s daycare, Mike Baxter (Allen) laments that his daughter’s choice of schools is “hippie-hippie rainbow.” Fine, sure, it’s a stupid comment, but it gets worse. Mike’s daughter Kristin (Alexandra Krosney) explains to her dad that the teacher at this school “teaches sensitivity and tolerance.” Then comes Allen’s seemingly homophobic bomb: “I just don’t think your kid should go to that school,” his character Mike says, filled with disdain. “You know how that ends up: Boyd dancing on a float.”
I’ll reiterate the offensive part: “You know how that ends up: Boyd dancing on a float,” said with total disgust, as if a boy dancing on a parade float is an unacceptable, bad thing. My response: Huh? How is a boy dancing on a parade float anything but a joyful thing?
And that’s just the beginning; this joyless crybaby goes on for SEVEN more paragraphs.
How is that joke any different than the sitcom shots taken every quarter-hour at conservatives, Christians, tea partiers, and anyone who refuses to worship the State?
And where was EW’s priggish outrage the other night when a sitcom called “2 Broke Girls’ made this “gay” joke about Rep. Bachmann’s husband: “He is more stiff than Michele Bachman’s husband at a Chippendale’s”?
I guess some “gay” jokes are more equal than others.
Considering the insane amount of bile directed at Mr. Bachmann, you’d think that EW would be opposed to that. After all, if he is gay as everyone keeps insinuating, this is the equivalent of quite a bashing.
But, as usual, when the target is right-leaning, you don’t need to defend them. However you’re attacking them, they deserve it.
If the target is left-leaning, then you’re a bigot.
Some targets are more equal than others.