Jesse "the Body" Ventura is right, organised religion is for fool

[Rob]

Everyone Bisexual?

> oh god , are you fell on your head this morning???

> what's the point with that issue??
> in a certain way,we are all bisexual ; when we feel attracted by
> someone else, it's not firstly because the person in front of us
> is a handsome man or a beautiful women.
> otherwise, life would be easier!!!!

I don't agree with this. You would be hard pressed to find a genuine bisexual. They are rare. People are usually exclusive one way or the other. Yes, they might be attracted to the other on occasion but being in love with someone is what we are talking about. We would like to think that the intense love is so universal but it's usually not, it is limited to one sex.

 

[Paul]

Re: Jesse "the Body" Ventura is right, organised religion is for

> Religion is not the problem.

> In France, you have abortion and abundant birth control. Their
> catholic population is 98% of the country. As we know, the
> catholic church doesn't believe in sex except to conceive a
> child.

> We believe what we choose to believe.

> It's much more fun to pummel poor trash right wingers who hold
> absolutely no power in society than the government for ending
> affirmative action and restricting welfare for poor people and
> instead give it to rich corporations. Then, there are still TV
> shows and movies with stereotypical images of homosexuals. I'm
> sure that helps their cause. And let's not say that right
> wingers are to blame. Any time you see a homosexual on TV, they
> are either a flaming fairy, or are in a serious relationship
> which one of the partners is dying of AIDS. Other than that, you
> don't see too many gays on TV.

What can you really expect from huge corporations like the network television studios who are run by mostly, ta da, white, heterosexual males who are driven by advertising money from companies owned by mostly white, conservative corporate execs? And if anyone can prove to me otherwise why homosexuals and minorities do not get hardly any representation in television shows and movies from the big 4(i.e. NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX), my ears are open to some insights. And please, don't give me some B.S. argument that these shows are representing the racial demographics of this country like some representatives of the T.V. networks are giving.

 

[Land shark]

I work at a TV station and here is the big secret:

> B.S. argument that these shows are representing the racial
> demographics of this country like some representatives of the
> T.V. networks are giving.

They aim their programming at the people who actually turn their Nielsen ratings books back in. The ratings is what they use to set their advertising dollars on.

After that, they still skew it towards white yuppies because they are the ones with enough money to blow on Sony Play Stations, an evening out to the Olive Garden, and a brand new Jeep Cherokee.

Shows like Seinfeld and Ally McBeal tend to get written up in the newspaper more positively than Living Single because they are viewed as qualtity TV that their target audience with lots of money gets into. Newspapers also have target audiences. They looked at the zip codes of who gets their newspapers and aimed the content towards them.

As so does the TV news. Whenever they do a fluff story on one of their new prime time programs, they gravitate towards Ally McBeal because it's a yuppie program. Just like their intended audience. Also, any program with a minority cast has the problem of age old stereotypes and could attract negative publicity. Such as whenever a black comedian appears on Saturday Night Live and they must pull out the 7 second delay because you never know what those crazy black people like Richard Pryor and Martin Lawrence will say. Or whenever a Spike Lee film opened circa 1992. The news crews had their cameras set up in Harlem or Los Angeles for when a riot would break out at the opening of "X". But as you witnessed after Woodstock '99 when a riot erupted over $5 water by a bunch of outraged white college kids, the white people have their heads on straight and don't cause problems. After all, the white people are too busy trying to solve everyone else's problems. Such as in Kosovo, Iraq, the "at risk youth", and with Ireland and England.

 

[Wild ea Wake]

Re: I work at a TV station and here is the big secret:

> They aim their programming at the people who actually turn their
> Nielsen ratings books back in. The ratings is what they use to
> set their advertising dollars on.

> After that, they still skew it towards white yuppies because
> they are the ones with enough money to blow on Sony Play
> Stations, an evening out to the Olive Garden, and a brand new
> Jeep Cherokee.

> Shows like Seinfeld and Ally McBeal tend to get written up in
> the newspaper more positively than Living Single because they
> are viewed as qualtity TV that their target audience with lots
> of money gets into. Newspapers also have target audiences. They
> looked at the zip codes of who gets their newspapers and aimed
> the content towards them.

The networks react to the financial potential of the viewing audience.
It isn't too difficult to understand where their target audience is.

> As so does the TV news. Whenever they do a fluff story on one of
> their new prime time programs, they gravitate towards Ally
> McBeal because it's a yuppie program. Just like their intended
> audience. Also, any program with a minority cast has the problem
> of age old stereotypes and could attract negative publicity.
> Such as whenever a black comedian appears on Saturday Night Live
> and they must pull out the 7 second delay because you never know
> what those crazy black people like Richard Pryor and Martin
> Lawrence will say. Or whenever a Spike Lee film opened circa
> 1992. The news crews had their cameras set up in Harlem or Los
> Angeles for when a riot would break out at the opening of
> "X".

It is easy to generalize all of these situations. There are many others that do not hit these generalizations. You only hear about the ones that are publicized and reported by the media. Negative makes better press than positive.

 

[Lifeguard Sleeping]

To an extent,, SURE! (IMHO)

> I don't agree with this. You would be hard pressed to find a
> genuine bisexual. They are rare. People are usually exclusive
> one way or the other. Yes, they might be attracted to the other
> on occasion but being in love with someone is what we are
> talking about.

No, it's not...not exactly, anyway. The word is biSEXUAL: a sexual attraction to both genders; Love isn't exactly a factor in this.

 

[Rob]

Re: To an extent,, SURE! (IMHO)

> No, it's not...not exactly, anyway. The word is biSEXUAL: a
> sexual attraction to both genders; Love isn't exactly a factor
> in this.

Yes, but that was the idea I was replying to.