Monday, February 21, 2005

WARNING: THIS ENTRY MENTIONS GAY CARTOON CHARACTERS. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED
Last night's rather ho-hum episode of The Simpsons was preceded by a parnetal discretion warning. Why? Because the show dealt with same-sex marriage. This is the same cartoon that routinely plays sexual behavior, extreme violence, irresponsible behavior, alcoholism and drunk-driving, racial and ethnic stereotypes, divorce, adultery, and Thomas Pynchon for laughs.

I took offense at the advisory. Am I being overly-sensitive? Or was Fox overly-sensitive? Whatever. The sop to the Religious Right was stupid and annoying.

That's all. I have no further thoughts on the subject. I just wanted to rant for a few seconds. Go back to whatever you were doing...