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Those disappointed in the Supreme Court's tacit approval of Title IX won't like this further prediction from Lopiano: "You ain't seen nothin...
...prevalently accepted (as Oppenheim supposes), then why aren't there more openly homosexual characters? It is because the networks have resisted those depictions and are now finally realizing that they have to catch up and become more contemporary in their portrayals. Not to have homosexual characters would be a tacit disapproval of that lifestyle, a disapproval which is dangerous for the message it sends to a less-than-tolerant portion out there in TV Land...
Certainly, there was tension in the air--everybody's future was at stake. Those "number-one" shrieks were matched in intensity only by the tacit sorrow of their unlucky counterparts...
...center, around whom the rest of the cast revolves--structurally, Ellen Morgan is Mary Richards, except she likes girls. She provides the window into the show's comedic world; she is the character we are asked to identify with, the person to whom we are asked to give tacit approval. That's why, in a country that still has a lot of conflicts about homosexuality, this formerly innocuous, intermittently funny series is now pushing buttons in a way that other shows with gay characters haven't. It's also why, after a telephone threat, the soundstage on the neat...
...dehumanizing practice of legalized segregation is gone, but the de facto segregation of the American community persists. In fact, the reason the three white teens beat Lenard Clark is that he had transgressed the bounds of tacit segregation that many whites in Bridgeport are trying to enforce. After carrying out their enforcement they boasted of having "taken care of the niggers." Tragically, it has been 34 years since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream: instead of little black boys holding hands with little white boys, the latter are still beating the former. It was not so long...