'Grace And Frankie' Looks At Life Unexpectedly Alone [TV: More Homosexuality & Broken Marriages]

npr.org ^ | 5/8/15 | Linda Holmes

[SoFloFreeper]

The opening credits of the new Netflix comedy (maybe comedy-drama) Grace And Frankie lay out the show's high concept using the song "Stuck In The Middle With You" and a set of wedding cake toppers. You see two couples, then two couples with kids, then the husbands kissing, then the abandoned women falling through the broken cake.

....two women with a tense acquaintanceship who find out that their husbands — played by Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen! — have been in love with each other for decades and want to take advantage of the age of same-sex marriage by getting married at last. So that'll be two divorces, no waiting.

[Tanniker Smith]

What gets me is if these two guys were portraying a black couple, everyone would be up in arms. But they’re playing a gay couple, and everyone’s okay with it? The producers must be homophobic anti-gay wackos if they insist on casting straight guys in guys roles. Do they have aroblem with gay actors?.

[DiogenesLamp]

The Birdcage was actually entertaining and pretty true to life. I grew up with a gay man and most gay shows are just cheap laughs from stereotypes.

"The Birdcage" didn't feature typical gays. The bulk of them want nothing to do with monogamy, the monogamous ones are the outliers. It presented a relatively heterosexual version of "gayness", and not an accurate one of the norm.

Three’s Company did not have a homosexual in it. He was pretending.

But it came out during a time when homosexuality was far more taboo than it is now. "Three's Company" made it into a joke, and non-threatening while presenting the taboos against it as silly.

It pushed back against the envelope of Bourgeois morality. Do not doubt for a moment that this effect was intended.

[DiogenesLamp]

Exactly! Now I know why my father was so aggravated with “All in the Family” way back. And I just saw a commercial for a new reality series on ABC Family about a teenage boy & girl who both have fathers “becoming women”. The snippet seemed to say the girl was “ok with it” but the young man was having problems ( and rightly so in my opinion).

They have to normalize this stuff to advance their agenda, and they do so by portraying it as "normal" in movies and other entertainment. They only get away with it because the entire entertainment industry is a monopoly populated and ran by Liberals. Nobody gets to hear an opposing viewpoint or entertainment with an opposing message.