Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Well, I guess I shoulda seen this coming


I'm always a day behind watching The Walking Dead, because I'm too old to stay up that late in a school night. But last night, when I saw the two new characters Aaron and Eric


all I thought was "are these going to be good guys or bad guys? 'Cuz they seem a little too good to be true, especially that Aaron, no one's that nice, especially after a punch in the face."

Somehow, I didn't think "oh, this is going to be controversial!" Mainly because I was under the impression that this was 2015, not 1955.



Well, wrong again, Professor!



Because today I started seeing this kind of shit on the interwebs:





Oh, fer fuck sake!
This is what might get you to turn off The Walking Dead?
Like, not this:

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140102071448/walkingdead/images/4/4c/Walking-dead-zombie-kill-gif-4.gif


That won't get you reaching for the remote, but this:

http://imgick.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width620/img/ent_impact_home/photo/17095437-mmmain.jpg

is too disturbing for you?







Oh, that's gross?
This is not too off-putting for you

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbx1clAkeQ1qdqopvo1_500.gif

But two dudes kissing is where you draw the line?






Right. Gross! Why can't they just go back to showing guys killing each other?

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/318/files/2014/10/1-871.gif

Now that's wholesomE!




Oh, that's lame?
No, Hershel was lame.
Because Rick chopped his fucking leg off with a fucking axe.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/11/hershel_walking_dead_amputation_a_p.jpg

But that didn't disturb you, two dudes in love, that disturbs you. Wow!







http://media.giphy.com/media/sfhqr29zoT2SY/giphy.gif






Seriously, these people are perfectly fine watching re-animated corpses feast on the flesh of the living as they scream in pain and terror. They're fine with a little girl stabbing her little sister to death and then Carol putting a fucking bullet in her head.

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2014/03/TWD_14-Carol-Kills-Lizzie.gif

They're fans of a show featuring murders, cannibalism, domestic violence, dismemberment, children dying and heads being sliced in two with a samurai sword, but the sight of two men kissing, that their delicate sensibilities just can't handle. How pathetic is that?





3 comments:

anne marie in philly said...

guns and gore are fine; humans loving each other is obscene. yeah, I don't get it either.

Bob said...

What AM said ... times ten.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

And that's how loved the GLBTQ community still is.