Shock and Awww

[vovat]

Okay, I think I've had enough of the media covering the reactions of the old ladies who gasp, "Well, I never!" while their monocles fall into their tea. Obviously I'm stereotyping, but I hope you know what I mean. The news will tell us some anecdote that there's really no reason for most of us to care one way or the other about, like Adam Lambert grinding a backup dancer's face into his crotch or Tiger Woods cheating on his wife, and the media highlight the reactions of the sanctimonious busybodies who still bother getting indignant at such things. Come on, if you want to overreact to everything you see on TV, that's your prerogative. But why encourage such people? We already have Fox News for that; the other networks don't need to join in. Hey, you know what I'm indignant about? That homophobia is still so accepted that politicians have to claim to be against gay marriage to be able to win in what we tend to consider our LIBERAL party. But I get the feeling that a lot of the "well, I never" crowd is all in favor of homophobia.

As for Adam Lambert, though, I'm sure he's glad to have gained some notoriety. When you're a pretty generic theater kid who got famous through a televised talent show, it's probably pretty hard to distinguish yourself from the rabble. Oh, and I'd also say I have to wonder how somebody could possibly be on a show like American Idol and be anti-gay (Jordin Sparks allegedly is, and I don't think she's the only one), but then I've also heard that there are homophobes in the International Wizard of Oz Club. Some friends of Dorothy they are!

Another thing that I've been meaning to rant about recently is...well, a few days ago, bethje and I were listening to the car radio, and they were playing sound bites of kids saying what they thought was in fruitcake. So, was it automatically supposed to be funny because the kids got it wrong, and since they were kids, their being wrong was just adorable? I'm not really sure I get it. I have to say I don't know a whole lot about kids (even when I WAS one, I didn't understand any of the others), but it seems to me that no children like to be patronized. And isn't an "aww, everything these little tykes do is so cute" attitude somewhat patronizing? I guess I also feel bad for the kids when parents think it's cute to take pictures of them with their pants down or spaghetti on their faces. Maybe I'm just projecting my own childhood insecurities onto the world, though. By the way, I also don't know what's in fruitcake, although I believe they generally contain brandy.

What else? Well, Beth and I watched the movie version of Rent last night. Not being a teenage girl or someone who remembers seeing the play when I WAS a teenage girl, I don't think I got a whole lot out of it. I guess I'm not quite sure why being loud, obnoxious, self-righteous, and unemployed is supposed to be a GOOD thing. I mean, I've been all of these things before at some time or other, but I don't brag about it. Or am I missing the point?

Comments

[artmonkeygirl.livejournal.com]

Let's see, a guy with fame, money and young, probably uneducated women with low self esteem impressed by the money and fame (yeah, I'm generalizing in both cases) and we're surprised? How many times has this happened in the past? *yawn* This is a situation for Tiger Woods and his wife to work out.

Homophobia is also something that this nation needs to get over and stop using to rile people up, it's denying basic rights to a segment of the U.S. population. Adults should be allowed to marry who they love, end of story.

And I have a friend who is of the mindset that 'Rent' has basically ruined contemporary theater. :P

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I think Shakespeare ruined contemporary theater. Bring back Thomas Kyd!