Word: mainstreaming
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...answer is, naturally, sex. Hollywood has a long, troublesome history of representing homosexuality as an all-encompassing identity. If you’re a gay character in a television show or a mainstream film, the only thing you’re allowed to discuss on screen in direct relation to your identity is the fact that you have a penchant for naughtiness with those of your own gender. In other words, Hollywood saps queers of any notion of a fluidity of identity—they must be gay every single second. Every motivation or action by a queer character must...
...politically correct sense. It is a reactionary industry, and besides a brief stint in the early ’70s (which was economically motivated), it has never been politically progressive beyond the most agreeable of causes. Some may think that having such an obvious allegory like Lenny in a mainstream children’s film is a step forward. But it’s really nothing new. A real step forward would be directly showing kids that queers aren’t all sex-crazed, club-kid heathens. At the moment, however, that’s about as likely...
...response to financial pressures, the Fung Wah Bus Transportation, which once offered hourly shuttles between the Chinatowns of Boston and New York City for as little as $10, has raised its fares to match those of competitors and has moved the buses to a more mainstream route...
...scant attention the mainstream American press devotes to any hurricane’s path through the impoverished islands of the Caribbean is certainly frustrating. But because of the grievous destruction in both human and material terms, Jeanne seems a particularly outrageous case—almost all attention was focused on far less deadly damage to southern Florida. After all, it’s a swing state...
...what is involved in armed conflict and is likely the only way people can find out what it is really like. With the squeamishness of the American media and the folly of embedded reporting, it is unlikely that people are going to find out for themselves through mainstream media outlets. Under current Federal Communications Commission guidelines the average American viewer would be just as likely to see the kind of graphic wartime violence shown in Fahrenheit 9/11 on network television as he’d be to see Janet Jackson’s nipple again...