Quote: (05-28-2015 04:18 PM)8ball Wrote:
Quote: (05-28-2015 10:23 AM)TomArrow Wrote:
..yet why did it work and who profited from it? why would the media be invested in that? why did the public not reject that opinion?
i am interested in the intricacies of the process. "the media did it" may be true, but it's too simplistic for my taste to really understand how it happened and what the motivations of all the involved parties were.
There are multiple reasons:
Gays have always had a disproportionate representation in anything related to art. There are various reasons for this which including genetic, social and cultural. Straight artists who often work with gays and who can't see past their own world(high levels of narcissism) don't see how the normalization of the gay lifestyle could be damaging to society. In film school students are taught to write/direct what they know and if all you know is other artists and gays well you can be sure at least one of your characters will be gay.
I think this is a significant reason and I'm surprised it doesn't get brought up more often. The reason why gays get favored over say polygamists even though the reasons for supporting gay marriage, namely that consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want to do with each other also support polygamy is simply because homosexuals have a lot more allies in popular media. Gays are seen as part of the urban "tribe" along with hipsters, SJWs, and other assorted artsy fartsy "cultured" peoples while some Mormon or Muslim guy who wants to have multiple wives come from cultures that they hold in contempt. I'm don't that there's some sort of organized conspiracy to push homosexuality, to me it seems like a more organic thing. If some sort of industry is filled with people of a particular type and the allies of those people, it's not a big stretch to imagine that they'll try to increase their influence without any sort of central planning.