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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 109470" data-attributes="member: 57984">It&#039;s a wee bit more nuanced than just the impact of religion and the religious on advertizers and networks -- American TV has had gay characters routinely for at least 20 years; in fact, pretty much every show has to have their own token gay, maybe even two. You can have laughably mismatched couples (like the one on MODERN FAMILY) and you can even show &quot;explicit&quot; male passion between &quot;hunks&quot; as long as the characters involved aren&#039;t really three-dimensionally presented.But when you get into the area of normal, masculine, well-developed characters the audience feels they know, there is still a reticence about showing him in a physical and emotional relationship with another normal, masculine, well-developed character the audience feels they know.It just makes it too real somehow, even in an era where we&#039;re supposedly fine with such things.There&#039;s no such constraints on the portrayal of lesbian relationships, however, where the individual or couple are portrayed as normal, feminine, well-developed characters the audience feels they know.It&#039;s the double dose of testosterone that seems to be the real, covert issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 109470, member: 57984"] It's a wee bit more nuanced than just the impact of religion and the religious on advertizers and networks -- American TV has had gay characters routinely for at least 20 years; in fact, pretty much every show has to have their own token gay, maybe even two. You can have laughably mismatched couples (like the one on MODERN FAMILY) and you can even show "explicit" male passion between "hunks" as long as the characters involved aren't really three-dimensionally presented. But when you get into the area of normal, masculine, well-developed characters the audience feels they [I]know, [/I]there is still a reticence about showing him in a physical and emotional relationship with another normal, masculine, well-developed character the audience feels they know. It just makes it too real somehow, even in an era where we're supposedly fine with such things. There's no such constraints on the portrayal of lesbian relationships, however, where the individual or couple are portrayed as normal, feminine, well-developed characters the audience feels they know. It's the double dose of testosterone that seems to be the real, covert issue. [/QUOTE]

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