Posted on 09/09/2011 4:23:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
For Hollywood, to push America's morality buttons is a win-win proposition. When they challenge those moribund traditional values, they not only strike a blow for the sexual revolution, they create the cherished publicity "buzz" that brings attention -- and viewers -- to their shows.
It explains why ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" named to their cast America's most famous transgender activist. Once the cute little blond daughter, Chastity, that everyone of a certain age remembers from the old "Sonny and Cher Show" on CBS is now the female-denying Chaz Bono.
ABC didn't name Bono because "he's" known as a dancer. They named "him" because he's well-known as an LGBT activist, with an emphasis on the "T." Bono has been a spokes-something for the gay-left Human Rights Campaign's, HRC, National Coming-Out Day and served as entertainment media director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD.
For its part, GLAAD is extra delighted because the cast now includes Bono and Carson Kressley, the most lecherous member of the old show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," who went on to host the Lifetime makeover show "How to Look Good Naked."
The Bono choice outraged many fans of the show, who've considered the ballroom-dancing showcase to be a sort of old-fashioned safe harbor families could enjoy -- although certainly the outfits as well as some of the dances are designed to maximize sexiness.
In a way, the Bono choice is counter-programming to last fall's casting of Bristol Palin -- who was chosen as a "star" because of her mother's fame, not her own.
Palin haters rooted against Bristol throughout the show, and when she made it all the way to the finals (more buzz, buzz, buzz), ABC and The Washington Post paid for a poll question to ask if her dancing was good enough. Can anyone imagine that they'll do a poll on whether Bono can do the cha-cha?
Bristol Palin didn't do teen-abstinence dances last fall, and there would have been hell to pay if she had, in any way, promoted her issue. Not so with the "T" issue. The cultural politics last year were really saved for bisexual activist and comedian Margaret Cho, who danced for "gay pride" in a rainbow dress on the show. Cho proclaimed to viewers, "We wanted to celebrate pride. It's a tough time for the gay community. A lot of gay teenagers have committed suicide, so we want this to end now!"
If Chaz Bono were going to perform the entire season as a man, with no reference to "his" actual gender, then ABC wouldn't be offering that LGBT educational opportunity. It is why no one should have any doubt that Chaz Bono is going to be instructing America about the need to overcome their "transphobia" -- on the show and everywhere else.
On ABC's "Good Morning America" on Sept. 6, the network used the opposition of the American Family Association, AFA, as a foil to promote the show. "It's made me realize I'm really glad I'm doing this because America really needs to see this," Bono said. "You know, it just kind of shows why for me it's important to be on the show, because so little still is known about what it means to be transgender, and there's so many just completely inaccurate stereotypes and thoughts that people have."
Four days earlier, ABC put on gay publicist Howard Bragman to call the AFA a "hate group" inspiring "hate opinions on email" that are like "people writing on a bathroom wall." AFA may as well write on bathroom walls. It's not getting a lick of airtime on ABC.
This is Bono's year of media activism, complete with a book last spring called "Transition," promoted all over the news channels and with a promotional one-hour Oprah Winfrey Network special called "Becoming Chaz," hailed as the story of a "valiant struggle of a sensitive individual to become who he really is."
Nowhere in any of this celebration is the hard reality. Despite "his" low voice, and his sideburns and his awful decision to amputate his own breasts, Bono remains a woman. It's ridiculous for ABC to argue children won't be confused by this political-correctness crusade. The entire transgender propaganda movement is confused. Indeed, there is a new sexual category to go alongside G, L, B and T --"Q" for questioning.
ABC and the rest of the media universe can do all the pretending they want, but that's not going to make Bono a real male. It's not a completely inaccurate stereotype for people to say so. Silly, old-fashioned me; I'm stuck on human beings made as males and females.
They dont need ABC airtime, they have their own network that probably has more listeners than does ABC.
Chaz is NOT a “star” and nobody wants to watch it dance.
*: More to the point, who wants to partner with he/she?
I know some sheep farmers in Montana...is there any chance they can get on the show?
America needs to see your freak ass Bono? I don't think so!
Just how effed up does one have to be to not even know one's own gender? These people are in need of psychological help - and prayer! - not surgical mutilation.
Here’s an idea: DON’T WATCH!
If ABC wants to own the “T” demographic to the exclusion of all others, let it.
The only time I watched Dancing with the Stars was when Bristol Palin was in it.
I caught hell in the last one of these discussions for my views, but what the heck.
She is a mutilated female, and I won’t be calling her a he, no matter what anyone say’s. Women have been dancing with each other at dance’s for years, we are just seeing two women dancing with each other, no big deal except one is wearing male clothes and has her vagina plugged with a fake penis.Hormones and a beard don’t make a man.
These people are looking for a dream, a nightmare really. They want acceptance and all they get is laughter behind their backs. If Chaz thinks this will make her acceptable she is crazy, 90% of straight America will be laughing, and a few goody two shoes who accept weird behavior will enjoy the freak show.
As soon as I heard that Bono was going to be on the show, I decided to boycott it from now on, no matter who they put on the show. If enough of us do this, their ratings will drop and they will be playing to the rest of the LGBT crowd.
>>> For Hollywood, to push America’s morality buttons is a win-win proposition.
Pushing buttons yes. Morality isn’t the focus.
Pro-Chaz get their strings pulled to watch and vote for her to stick it in the face of the Anti-Chaz people, and the Anti-Chaz people likewise get their strings pulled to tune in and vote her off. The show wins both ways.
That’s how Bristol Palin got her dance spot. Also Tom Delay.
There were numerous threads pushing people to do exactly this to support Bristol. Was that over morality? Memory spans seem to be getting shorter.
If Rush Limbaugh expressed interest they’d jump at the chance to get him. Pity Brent Bozell is too much an unknown to qualify. Nobody would care about him either way. Boring programming that way.
I’ll watch if they do the Romey and Michelle Dance.
I guarantee one of their goals is not just social acceptance, but to make us all pay for their surgical mutilation. Yes, whether it’s under Obamacare or your health plan, they want all of this crap to be covered under medical care. Can anyone imagine how much this costs? How much it will raise everyone’s healthcare payments.
I have a question, what happens if one of these clowns go through the “change” and after several years decide they were wrong. Their original sex was the sex they were supposed to be. Do we now have to pay for their change back to what they originally were?
Only “Chaz” still has her female plumbing down below. Yes, today you can call yourself a “man” while sporting a vagina.
I have a question, what happens if one of these clowns go through the “change” and after several years decide they were wrong. Their original sex was the sex they were supposed to be. Do we now have to pay for their change back to what they originally were?
On a previous thread someone said the "addadicktomy" part of the "change" costs about $100,000 -- and frequently fails. In which case "we" would have to pay for more surgery.
It has also been posted that C.Bono had her breasts removed but has not yet had the other surgery.
Chaz is NOT a “star” and nobody wants to watch it dance.
“It” deserves to be known as “she”, because she was born a she, and no matter how hard (surgery and hormone shots) later, she is still a woman, and deserves to be recognized as such.
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