When I first saw this picture I wanted to scream "yes! Finally!" The media in our country needs to focus more on global injustices, like that of the starving children shown, instead of trivial issues, like that of the male couple. The media in our country is responsible for the ill feelings towards homosexuals. Honestly, if the media didn’t portray gays as villains or sinner more people probably would be accepting. There are worse things in the world than a man marrying a man. Don’t get me wrong social issues should be considered but not in the media. They should be focusing on raising issues that are important. What’s that the original purpose of the media, to expose the injustice going on in the world today? Where is the injustice in gay marriages? They should be focusing on children who need our help overseas or foreign issues arising between our country and another- not the stupid issues of gay relations. Who’s goddamn right it is to tell one person they can’t love another? Not anyone on this planet and the media needs to stop fueling the flame of all those ignorant assholes who think they have this right. Does the media seriously have nothing better to cover than gay marriages? What about the hungry children? What about the soldiers in Iraq? What about how our president doesn’t do a damn thing? Personally, these issues should take prevalence over a silly issue like gay marriage.
Some really good points here, you are totally right about marriage equality, it is a topic brought up by candidates just to divide and make it look like they are getting something done. Hot button topics, I think that is the idiom for that.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this picture reminds me of Mohanty's article as well. It others people from third world countries (I can't think of a non-condescending name for it because the discourse is so loaded). This exact image is sent around the internet countless times; I've seen it at least a hundred times. It is meant to shock you, to make you think "Man it is so much worse there than here", but this erases the national issues here. We are in the middle of a protest across the nation, police brutality towards peaceful protesters, our prisons have historically tortured people (not to mention the police outside the prisons) but these images allow us to feel like the saviors (white man's burden, don't mind the name but it is similar to the ideas of Mohanty in some ways)who should be fixing other countries. I know you aren't specifically saying that, but the image brings to mind the Oriantalism and cultural imperialism that is purveyed by the U.S. Rather than seeing how bad it is for others and trying to "fix" that situation, we should focus on our society, it is the only one we can speak for.