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The FCC Wants to Rate LGBTQ as Obscene (skepchick.org)

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But Trump’s FCC has decided that this system is no longer working for them. Last month, they released a public notice announcing that they would like to force the TVOMB to change their ratings. Why?

“Recently, parents have raised concerns that controversial gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children’s programs without providing any disclosure or transparency to parents. Specifically, the industry guidelines that parents rely on are rating shows with transgender and gender non-binary programming as appropriate for children and young children, and doing so without providing this information to parents, thereby undermining the ability of parents to make informed choices for their families.”

That’s right: parents somewhere are scared of their children simply seeing TV shows with transgender and nonbinary people or characters, and so now the federal government is stepping in to protect them by forcing the industry to adopt trigger warnings.

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[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

ull "protect the children" over my fucking dead body

[-] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

By redefining G&L content as "obscene" it is no longer protected by the First Amendment and can be eliminated entirely.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

how about we define bigotry as obscene

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm sure they'll have no issue with that if given the opportunity.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

not if i get my opportunity first

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 14 points 14 hours ago

But what if I don't want my child to know that straight/hetero/cis people exist?

[-] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

Then the government doesn't give a shit about you

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago

This could be the top comment, it doesn't need to be a reply

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Can we just get some interesting writing. Seems america still has stereo types for all the LGBTQ characters., and characters in general.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

But what about Tinky Winky, Dipsy, La La, and Po? Even sun baby is not gendered! Fucking' Teletubbies are gonna be TV-14.

[-] monotremata@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago

Jerry Falwell was raising alarms about Tinky Winky all the way back in 1999, because they had a male voice actor but carried a bag, and had a purple triangle on their head.

There are no depths too stupid for the culture wars.

[-] zorflieg@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

"There are no depths too stupid for the culture wars."

monotremata 2026

I may cite that.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 55 points 1 day ago

This is why we all should be skeptical of things like age verification. Because this is the very next step after the already vague "pornography" bans

[-] grue@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, there are many reasons we should be skeptical of ~~age verification~~ panopticon tracking, but yes, criminalizing LGBTQ expression is among them.

[-] Yliaster@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago

Yeah but all the het shit isn't "inappropriate"? Do gay parents try to hide each other from their kids cause they're "not appropriate"? Stop over-sexualizing the LGBT community to the extent where it comes off as a weird fetish.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 31 points 1 day ago

It absolutely is a fetish for them. A sick nasty shameful juicy fetish and they can’t get enough.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I was ready to get mad at your comment, but it made me laugh instead.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 43 points 1 day ago

Except they do fetishize everything that they claim their weird ass religion forbids. It's like they can only get off on things they're not allowed to be enjoying.

[-] Yliaster@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Technically they would do the same thing for billionaires and anti-immigrant propaganda too if that was the case since Jesus was with the poor people and he didn't care about treating people as "immigrants" or "illegals", but they don't even follow their scripture.

It's a joke.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 23 hours ago

I think overly restrictive religions give people a shame kink

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Man, it's a good thing I never had kids because I would never lie to them about these kinds of things.

[-] BigMacHole 20 points 1 day ago

Good!

-Log Cabin Republicans for some reason!

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

Politicians should be muted permanently. At least sensor their balls off.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Our fucking government, if you can call it that, is obscene...

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

so like now our you being served is going to have an r rating or something? how about klinger in a dress in mash? or like monty python drag. are poof jokes ok just not actual poofs.

[+] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -8 points 1 day ago

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[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

What transgender policy? Harris had absolutely no policy on transgender people besides not giving a shit what the states did individually (the exact policy position republicans are supposed to be in favor of btw).

Harris boxed herself in by refusing to take a stand for anything worth voting for. Trump's voters fell for the fear mongering like they always do.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

No, she had a policy, she said one thing about it, she would ‘follow the law’ and then went on to say ‘that’s a trump policy anyway’ as if trying to say she supports the queer community even less than trump.

So even worse than no policy.

Cant imagine why democrats don’t do better in this country, how strange. 🤡

[+] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -20 points 1 day ago

I knew all those posts about Harris being transphobic would turn out to be true!

*checks earpiece*

Oh . . Right. Well. Anyway.

[-] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

You deserve Trump and worse

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 day ago

This article has nothing to do with Harris, and it’s weird to try to turn a post about Trump’s FCC targeting queer people into a Harris stanning event. In general decentering marginalized people in order to beat your own political drum is gauche as hell.

[+] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -9 points 1 day ago

You’re right, it doesn’t have to do with Harris, does it.

Why is that?

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 7 points 19 hours ago

Because the DNC ignored polling data on what policy stances would win the election?

Because they didn't have a backup plan for if Biden became senile, and then tried to hide his senility for as long as possible so Harris was the only available candidate and the Harris campaign had very little time to get going?

Because they ran a black woman against a white man and the US is racist and sexist?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago

Because the DNC ignored polling data on what policy stances would win the election?

Interesting. What polling data would that be. Is the polling data in the room with us now? Do you believe polling data?

Because they didn't have a backup plan for if Biden became senile, and then tried to hide his senility for as long as possible so Harris was the only available candidate and the Harris campaign had very little time to get going?

Senility’s not a toaster, right, like there’s no - ding! he’s senile! And the POTUS is normally the de facto head of the party so if your imaginary DNC is gonna say “Look Joe, you’re done” then I would also like that imaginary DNC to be real but it isn’t.

He should have stuck to one term. He fucked up.

Because they ran a black woman against a white man and the US is racist and sexist?

Yeah I got nothin’ for that. Sorry Kamala. You can’t run because you’re a black woman. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah I got nothin’ for that. Sorry Kamala. You can’t run because you’re a black woman. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Ooh! That's it, that's the feeling. Right there. That's what people who stayed home because of Gaza felt.

This moral red line where you just throw up your hands and let the democratic system vote itself out of existence if this is what they want you to sacrifice in name of electability. Try to hold on to that feeling and see if you can project it onto leftists and see if you can spark some empathy.

It's interesting how you treat a factual explanation as a moral statement. The assertion that Harris lost because she's a black woman does not mean a black woman should not run. Unless, of course, you care about electability more than about morality. Can you feel the cognitive dissonance grating in your mind?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Can you feel the cognitive dissonance grating in your mind?

I can see the results very clearly. They wrote an article about it. We’re commenting in the actual thread about that article.

But I digress, you were saying something about being superior?

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago

If you have something you want to say you should say it. I’ve already made it clear what I think re: turning a thread about queer people being targeted by the Trump administration into a space to cry about a candidate that lost a year and a half ago.

[-] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 points 4 hours ago

You're wasting your time. In their comments, Optional is more concerned with browbeating people over how they voted wrongly (often with no indication there's any truth to their vague and spurious accusations) in the eyes of the almighty and infallible Optional than with actually winning elections. Facts don't matter, only that people who criticize the party get put in their place and reminded that it's not for them to rock the boat.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago

Two years ago these threads were full of ostensibly or self-described queer people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Harris. Reasons varied slightly but usually fell into either “she’s transphobic” or “she loves genocide”.

Not everyone, but a lot of posters & commenters.

Because inevitable actions such as those described in OP would be taken by trump, I found such arguments to be unfathomably stupid. Those people are still arguing it was right to not vote Harris and so here we are.

AND we will do it again in two years should Newsom or someone less than perfect get the nomination. Predictable failure to move forward.

I’m not crying my candidate lost. I’m pointing out why the FCC wants to make LGBT+ language “classified”. It’s a direct line of reasoning. People voting against their interests (or not voting at all).

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

If queer people are telling you and Democrats now, before the primary that they refuse to vote Newsom and Dems decide to go with Newsom anyway, then the party made their bed and they get to lie in it. You don’t get to ignore a marginalized part of your base and then demand they support you, that’s not how politics works. If you want an unquestionable leader that everyone must support you’re talking about religion.

All of which is beside the point when all queer people make up 10% of the population at best, blaming us for the way 90% of cis straight people voted is scapegoating horseshit. Go yell at Karen or Kevin on Facebook 9 times for every 1 you wail and gnash your teeth about how the queers didn’t vote right (despite the fact that is also a bald faced lie, as a group queer people were only behind black women when it comes to voting for a Harris) and I’ll believe this isn’t a knee jerk homophobic reaction to losing.

Newsom has already sabatoged LGBT legislation that was ready to be signed and is hostile to trans people specifically, it is fucking comical to tell me to vote for the guy that wants to defund my healthcare and expect it to happen. As long as you treat the legitimate concerns of queer people like irrelevancies they’re too stupid to understand don’t matter (to you) then you shouldn’t question why everyone doesn’t unwaveringly support them.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

it is fucking comical to tell me to vote for the guy that wants to defund my healthcare and expect it to happen

Fair enough except it’s the opposite and you’re saying you still won’t.

Okay. Then you won’t. That’s what we have now. Why that should be the desired direction escapes me, but - okay.

We all want the perfect candidate. We’re all not going to get it. Whatever candidate we do get is going to be better than the alternative. Electing the better choice is such basic common sense, it’s just baffling anyone would argue against it but, here we are.

Here we are watching the party with the most votes call LGBTQ “obscene”.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Fair enough except it’s the opposite

Oh, I’ve been getting emails from the LA LGBT Center about Newsom refusing to fund gender affirming healthcare within the state because they simply got bored and made it up?

If you have no idea about what is going on politically in a state maybe don’t try to explain it to someone who lives there. And if you want a candidate to not be relentlessly criticized by queer people then pick one that isn’t actively courting bigots and blocking LGBTQ legislation.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

The vast majority of LGBTQ people and their allies knew what was at stake. This is bad form.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago

A number of uh, vocal, voices on here were not in that majority apparently. That was bad form.

Some of them disappeared afterwards, some are still here. LGBTQ people here who didn’t vote for Harris, are you going to consider that a mistake? Or what.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

It's Lemmy. Any time it's suggested that voting for harm reduction is better than letting fascism win, downvotes follow. I'm used to it at this point.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

Agreed. It’s still stupid.

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