Posted on 09/08/2007 8:49:55 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Gays and the Bionic Woman? Love her!
Gays and Isaiah Washington? Not so much.
What's a thoroughly postmodern gay to do when one of the iconic heroines of '70s television is relaunched on a network that eagerly embraces an actor who gets dumped from his hit show on another network after proving himself all too comfortable with a certain homophobic slur?
Okay, fine, maybe you don't get the Bionic Woman idolization. Maybe you've never been on the receiving end of the "f" slur. (What are you, one of those nine out of 10 people who "scientific research" suggests isn't gay?) But unless you'd rather be contemplating lesser, tawdrier issues -- say, the public-restroom dating habits of a certain Republican senator -- stick with us here.
NBC's new "Bionic Woman" series, premiering Sept. 26, was not without a certain amount of audience anxiety before Isaiah Washington even came into the picture.
Emotional connections to characters like the Bionic Woman can run deep for countless gay viewers who see isolation and repression reflected in heroes who must harbor secret identities and who can't show off their fabulousness in their everyday lives.
Take, for example, a misfit child in 1970s Anytown, U.S.A., who doesn't even have a name for his difference -- homosexuality -- but is deluged with cultural cues that whatever his true nature is, it's wrong. The Bionic Woman, Jaime Sommers, was a bright spot in dark times: She could protect you; she knew what it was like to not fit in; she could pull off a velour tracksuit.
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Like almost EVERY other “remake”/”redo” of an old movie or TV series, i’m certain it’ll suck. They’ll probably be trying to ‘make a point’ on some issue every week, instead of just providing entertainment like the old one did. God, I loved that two or three-parter the old show had with the computer who was out to destroy humans by starting WW3. Great stuff.
The Bionic Woman a fag hag? Who knew?
OMG....EVERYTHING is GAY....everything!......we just cancelled our Cable.....won’t be missing this!
We got rid of our cable about 6 months ago. We don't miss it at all thanks to Blockbuster Online.
Another 'news' article pushing the homo agenda lie that homos are 10% of the population. Do they really think that telling a lie often enough makes it somehow true?
I am so very happy that I don’t own a TV!
LOL! I never thought about that one.
Utterly incoherent. If the Bionic Woman were a gay icon I would have heard about it by now. This is completely made up.
Jaime Sommers was not a weirdo outcast with superpowers. She was a total everywoman, a junior-high schoolteacher who only wanted to live a normal life and find a decent boyfriend but who had to continually take time out of her class schedule in order to save the world to pay back the gummint for her super-charged prosthetics.
I think they are 10 percent now days because we are teaching in the public schools. It’s all okay now.
” Do they really think that telling a lie often enough makes it somehow true?”
I suspect perhaps they think if they tell it LONG enough, they can convert enough to make it true.
Uh oh. Look out Bionic Woman - Xena’s gonna be pissed if she loses any of her girls to you. I see a catfight.
And she got to meet Bigfoot!
I think the show looks rather promising. I saw a trailer for it tonight (on a show hawking many new NBC premieres), and it looked pretty good. At least now, we get special effects, rather than slow-motion that is suppose to simulate speed. It looks a lot more action-oriented and intense than the old show(s).
Padget writes like a faggot. I couldn’t make sense of most of it, but it sounded pretty gay.
In what episode did she ever get to rumble with the alien’s robot sasquatch?
Sasquatch was Steve’s playmate exclusively!
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