I just read this article on Fox News about a gay right’s group who is complaining that “American Idol” is homophobic. What is the offense?
…Cowell told one male contestant to “wear a dress” and Jackson asked another, “are you a girl?”
This is, of course, bashing the male contestant by questioning his masculinity. But is that the same thing as homophobic “gay bashing”? The gay rights advocates in GLAAD think so, stating: “The real offense here was in the producer’s decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant’s gender expression into the butt of a joke.”
But look at the flawed presupposition here. GLAAD presupposes that joking about a “gender expression” is equivalent to homosexual bashing. This is false for obvious reasons.
Take me for an example. I am a male and I express my gender as masculine. If someone were to joke about my “gender expression” it is by definition not joking about homosexuality as I am a male who is heterosexual. If you are to jokingly question my masculinity, it in no way implies that I am suddenly homosexual. Sexual conduct has absolutely nothing to do with joking about my masculinity.
The bottom line is that questioning someone’s masculinity does not have anything to do with questioning their sexual preference in the first place. And even if it did, there’s another more fundamental presupposition that GLAAD makes here:
They presuppose that it is wrong to question someone’s sexual preference in the first place.
For a relativistic organization (one who implies there are no morals dealing with sexual preference), it is highly interesting that these people suddenly have objectivist morals when regarding whether or not it is proper to joke about something. Does their presupposition allow this sudden shift to objectivism? Of course not. But that won’t stop them because consistency isn’t the point with them.
Scoring political points is.
