Posted on 09/04/2011 4:22:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While many people, especially in the LBGT community, have lauded the addition of Chaz Bono to the "Dancing with the Stars" cast, others are concerned, disappointed, and just plain angry – and they went to the show’s online message board to let producers know how they feel.
One of the main concerns was that transgendered contestants will be confusing to children and inappropriate for a family program.
“I personally do not mind watching Chaz,” wrote Callisandria2. “The problem is that I watch this show with my 10 year old daughter. I am sure the show will talk about Chaz and the controversy, and I am not ready to explain all of that to her yet. We just barely covered the birds and the bees. We always watch one show together, in the fall it's DWTS, and in the spring it's American Idol. Looks like we will try X-factor instead this season.”
Other fans were more blunt.
“Manufactured genitalia is not the conversation I want to have with my children,” said trident606.
Some fans had moral issues regarding Chaz Bono’s gender reassignment and refused to accept Bono’s “male” status.
“I have never missed a season, and I won't miss this season,” sandimac65 said. “That being said, when Chaz Bono is on I will not watch his/her segment. All these people who think it's a choice - if you don't like being the sex you're born, just go change to the sex you wanna be...oh no! Sorry! As the old commercial used to say, 'It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!' If God had meant for her to be a him, that's what she would have been born.”
Jan Pizzolato shared that sentiment.
“I cannot watch this season. I am disappointed in the cast,” she posted. “Chaz Bono was born a girl. What she/he has done is her/his decision to change God's plan for her. It makes me sad to think that what was once valued as morals has so deteriorated as people have gotten so oblivious to what is right and wrong.”
However, other fans came to Bono’s defense.
“It didn't take long for ignorance and bigotry to rear its ugly head. Calling Chaz Bono a 'he/she' or 'him/her' or 'freak of nature'. now THAT is disgusting,” cathieil said.
“What he is doing requires a ton of courage and I wish him well on both the show and in life,” she added.
“I am disappointed in all the judgment about a person none of you even know," dstaner wrote. "Chaz is just trying to live his life as all of us are. You aren't going to watch the show because he is on it. Get a life. As for explaining to your kids....please. come up with a better excuse than that. Tell your kids his mother is Cher ( who is very famous). Until you have walked in his shoes you have no right to judge. What would Jesus do? You are mostly all a bunch of hypocrites. Clean up your own backyard.”
Many posters were less concerned with Bono’s gender status than they were with the fact that he is not really a “star” in the first place.
“The name of the program is Dancing With the Stars. Since when is Chaz a star?” said an anonymous poster. “Okay, he starred in his own documentary about his transition to male, but other than that what has he done with his life? Stardom? Not hardly. I think I'll pass on watching this season. Maybe they'll get some stars next season.”
“OMG. I was so looking forward to the new season of DWTS. But what were they thinking when they chose this cast?” said sassyred55. “I know why they chose Chaz.... Not because he is a Star, But for the reaction that most of us fans are feeling. His mother is the Star. This is the worst cast so far!”
Another fan chose not to single out any one cast member – none of them were appealing enough.
“Where are the promised A-List celebs?” the fan wrote.
“With apologies to Kathy Griffin (who would have been a great contestant) the show should be titled, ‘Dancing With The D-List.’”
Actually I didn't call you to ping it. I made a snarky comment about "face tightening". ;-)
That said, sex deviates on the screen make me ill, and with that plan they announced to accomodate a mal-adjusted deviant, who mutilated her body to "find her inner self" just proves my point of TV being a cesspool of pandering sludge.
There was a thread posted on FR and she is hesitant about completing the surgery as it isn’t always a success.
Oh, I know. It was all by superior arrangement. I knew in my heart I was supposed to ping this out.
It’s all part of the larger plan.
:-)
In all honesty I am very sorry for Chastity. What chance did she have of growing up anywhere close to normal? None.
I remember when she was born, my mother commented, “Chastity?!? What a stupid name for a baby. She will never grow up normal.”
Who could be normal with two self-obsessed, self-indulgent weirdo parents, Cher clearly seriously identity-confused about her own body.
Chastity/Chaz is a victim of her parents, or lack of parenting. She is confused and desperate and is a classic candidate for an untimely death (God forbid). I feel sorry for her.
Did you say the same thing when people had an issue with Bristol Palin being on the show? Only famous because of her mother..same thing.
I feel very sorry for her too.
I also don’t want her to influence others to ruin their lives, so she should receive utterly no publicity about her life, ever.
She could get back to some semblance of normalcy but I fear she will not take that route.
Exactly - I was going to add that women have to have mastectomies sometimes and they manage to recover and live lives as normal women after that. There is even some measure of corrective surgery possible in some cases.
It’s her mind and heart that need correction, and she has to want to do it.
Who the hell IS GOING TO BE HER PARTNER....cHERYL???
Not with her crazy mother around.
Yup. And I think she gained all that weight in order to look more masculine. Then again it may be drugs she is taking because she does have a beard. Let me tell ya, THAT was an ugly pic!
As for the woman who watches this show with her 10 year old.....lady, the costumes the women wear are borderline porno....can't you find something better for your kid to do?
OMG! She was PRETTY!!!
I think it’s the hormones that make her puff up like a toad that way.
Yes, I said “her”. She’s female, she’ll always be female.
besides- who wants to watch AN UGLY FAT GIRL WHO LOOKS LIKE AN UGLY FAT GUY DANCE????
Wow, was that asserted by Chaz? I hadn't ever read about it.
Sonny wasn’t crazy....actually he was pretty conservative, but i remeber when Cher did tht TV special almost NAKED!! I was appalled but my friends thought it was funny and I was just a Square!! Sonny is rolling over in his grave.
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