A quick Glee review
Nov. 29th, 2010 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficOne, Poochie Kurt needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie's Kurt's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Poochie Kurt"?
Yeah, that about sums it up. Oh, and I'm more than a little weirded out by the show's advocacy of a zero-tolerance policy on gay bullying, down to literally showing a school with such a policy as a paradisaical environment where gays and straights live in perfect harmony, lining up to listen to a capella groups.
I know we, as a nation, are kinda in shock right now, but zero-tolerance is one of those phrases that should get the same side-eye as "racial purity" or "a Michael Bay film." Remember when we were all shocked and angered by Columbine, so we put up a zero-tolerance policy on school violence, and now eleven-year-olds get waterboarded if they draw pictures of a gun? Or when we were all shocked and angered by 9/11, so we put up a zero-tolerance policy on airport security, and now you have to get dry-humped by the TSA if you want to fly cross-country?
Not saying there isn't a problem, just that it's easy to overreact when you're hurt and angry. Maybe this could be the first time that a zero-tolerance policy doesn't lead to gross incompetence and abuse of power, but I think this is more likely:
Student 1: So I was delivering some food to the homeless shelter with my two dads when I tripped and broke my ankle.
Student 2: That sucks, dude.
Teacher: Sucks? Like a gay man giving a blowjob? Expelled!
Yeah, that about sums it up. Oh, and I'm more than a little weirded out by the show's advocacy of a zero-tolerance policy on gay bullying, down to literally showing a school with such a policy as a paradisaical environment where gays and straights live in perfect harmony, lining up to listen to a capella groups.
I know we, as a nation, are kinda in shock right now, but zero-tolerance is one of those phrases that should get the same side-eye as "racial purity" or "a Michael Bay film." Remember when we were all shocked and angered by Columbine, so we put up a zero-tolerance policy on school violence, and now eleven-year-olds get waterboarded if they draw pictures of a gun? Or when we were all shocked and angered by 9/11, so we put up a zero-tolerance policy on airport security, and now you have to get dry-humped by the TSA if you want to fly cross-country?
Not saying there isn't a problem, just that it's easy to overreact when you're hurt and angry. Maybe this could be the first time that a zero-tolerance policy doesn't lead to gross incompetence and abuse of power, but I think this is more likely:
Student 1: So I was delivering some food to the homeless shelter with my two dads when I tripped and broke my ankle.
Student 2: That sucks, dude.
Teacher: Sucks? Like a gay man giving a blowjob? Expelled!
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Date: 2010-11-30 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-30 11:15 am (UTC)If officials are given leeway, people say they're too loose.
If it's zero-tolerance, people say they're too strict.
And there's usually someone who complains about having precise definitions for subjective terms.
It's kinda a losing game, really.