CBS, NBC Join Bush Gay Bashing Campaign
If this sort of thing continues, we'll be back in the closet or dead within 10 years.
Since I posted that sentence earlier this evening, I've wondered whether to consider it an expression of hysteria. Reading that both NBC and CBS refused to air an ad from the United Church of Christ because the ad states that the UCC welcomes all people -- including gays -- brought my physical surroundings in sharper focus. The air felt colder than it had a moment prior, as if someone had left a door or window open in an adjacent room.
"Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations," reads an explanation from CBS, "and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks."
Am I being hysterical? God, I hope so.
For what it's worth, CBS can be contacted at:
CBS Television Network
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Main Number:
(212) 975-4321
CBS News
555 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Main Number:
(212) 975-4114
Sorry to be so morose. Maybe I'll feel better after sending a letter or making a phone call.
3 Comments:
Jay,
I know what you mean. There's a reason I've been under a bit of psychic stress lately, which is manifesting itself in various ways, including in my writing. Since (and before) the election, it's felt like a good time to become an absurdist, I don't know. I hope things will prove to ultimately be "just scares." It's frightening.
Thank you, Laura. It's good to know I'm on the only one with that low-level anxiety buzzing around the background of my day-to-day life . . .
Absurdism -- and I don't have a lot of historical knowledge of absurdism to draw on, I'm simply riffing on the concept -- does strike me as something like an outraged response to an outrageously offensive world. Maybe an outright refusal to go on trying to make sense of anything, or even make anything better. This reminds me (though it's the same thing) of something Sloterdijk mentioned in his book on cynicism. Some factions of the avant-garde in pre-WWII Germany publically affirmed war as something desireable from the standpoint of artistic production (not that specific war, necessarily, but any war and all wars). I can't recall the argument, but I'll try to find the quote . . .
where I said, in parenthesis, "though it's the same thing", I meant "though it's not the same thing"
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