So,
I was watching Timeless this week. I'm a fan of time travel stories.
I've been following this show and hoping it doesn't get canceled for
more "reality" TV crap.
In
this episode, the lady who put the group of three together invited
Lucy, one of the time travelers, to have dinner with her. You see,
after the first episode, something the travelers did made Lucy's sister
disappear. She remembers her, but to everybody else, her sister never
existed.
The
boss agreed before this episode that they would do what they can to get
her back once the plot to mess with time was thwarted. She had an
ulterior motive for inviting Lucy to dinner. You see, she is married
and has a child, and she worries that they may disappear because of
something related to a future trip back in time.
The
boss's significant other is very friendly and admits that the boss
never invites people from work or discusses work. Therefore, Lucy must
be special. The whole point of the dinner invite was to give Lucy a
flash drive with pictures of the boss's family so she won't forget if
the timeline changes to make them disappear.
She
didn't want to forget her family. I found the scene to be touching, but
I knew it would cause backlash. Why? The boss is married to a black
woman, So, automatically this becomes the "gay agenda" being forced on
people. I'm greatly disappointed in the "loving" Christians who threw a
fit over this 5 minute scene. However, I'm not surprised to see it.
IMDB's Timeless Message Board was hit with complaints.
What
exactly bothers them about that scene? Had this been a straight
married couple, nobody would have batted an eye. The real point of the
scene, the loving wife wanting to make sure she never forgot her family,
would have been understood. Since it's a lesbian couple, it's an
outrage to some. Why?
Are
they worried that this will "normalize" same gender relationships?
Well, this is going to happen anyway. Are they worried that the scene
depicted a lesbian couple having a normal dinner like a straight couple?
Does it bother them that they aren't having sex and telegraphing how
gay they are? Newsflash to those who are so worried, a lesbian or gay
relationship isn't merely about sex.
I
know this may shock you, but sex is only a part of a relationship.
True, some couples are having more sex than others. Some people who are
worried about gay couples have this false idea that gays are having sex
at the drop of a hat. Some may be, just as some straight people are
very promiscuous, But, sex is only happening for so long before you put
your clothes back on and live your day to day life.
Gay
and lesbian couples are in those relationships not just because of the
type of sex they prefer, but because these are the people they want to
have a caring and loving, emotional relationship with. It's the same
reason straight people get married. They've found their life partner
and want to build a life long relationship.
here
was this supposed "fact" in a comment that gays only make up 3%-5% of
the population. Reality is if those statistics do exist, I guarantee
you there are some within the LGBT community who lie about it. Why lie
in 2016? You can still get fired, harassed, abused, killed, disowned
and all the rest because of the shame religion puts on being gay,
lesbian or transgender.
Normalizing
a gay relationship is not a bad thing. It is a loving relationship
between two consenting adults. The only thing this does is sends a
message to the younger people in the LGBT community that it's okay to be
you. You don't have to hide and be ashamed. You don't have to pretend
to be accepted. You don't have to enter into a relationship that will
fail in the end because you can't live the lie anymore.
That
happens now, and it's not just unfair to the person in the closet.
It's unfair to the person they married. In the case of the suppressed
transgender person, there's a whole other level of complications that I
wish I could get into here. There are certainly some heart breaking as
well as happy stories about those transitioning later in life and being
divorced of being accepted as their true selves.
The
point is, the uproar over this little scene in the show is ridiculous.
Was it put in there as a message in support of LGBT rights? That's
very likely. Was it a lie? Are there no examples of happily married
same gender couples? Of course there are. There is this fear in the
anti LGBT movement that somehow they are coming to get them and force
themselves on them. There is the fear in the LGBT community that
religious types will try to exterminate them if they can. So, both
sides push hard and sometimes overstep.
All
that needs to happen is a little common sense. The overwhelming
majority of people, however they see themselves, just want to live and
be happy. You don't have to agree with everything another person says
or does, but you should have enough respect to let hem live their lives
in peace. The scene in Timeless wasn't part of some evil "Gay
Hollywood" agenda, It simply showed the reality that a same gender
couple can be happy together and live life just as any straight couple.
I fail to see any problem with that.
