MAD MEN UNDER FIRE FOR GAY SCENE
An episode of the American television series Mad Men has upset conservative groups in the US over an intimate scene involving two men.
The Parents’ Television Council has complained that the episode should have garnered a rating for mature audiences, instead of the TV-14 rating that accompanied it.
The season three premiere episode showed a scene where closeted gay character Salvatore Romano, played by the openly gay Bryan Batt, and a hotel bellhop kissed and touched each other.
Time TV critic James Poniewozik said the conservative group had not complained about the previous two series of the show which showed similar scenes between men and women.
He suggested that the fact the scene featured “a big old gay kiss, between two gay men, kissing gayly in the gay manner” was the real reason behind the attention.
Stupid Americans. It is times like this where I hate americans even more. Stupid hypocrites.
Also, it never seems to amaze me how quick straights and churches and old housewives are up in arms when they DARE show two men kiss, although when two women kiss, it is okay. Why, because that actually turns straight men on. THEN they can look past the fact that they are the same gender etc etc. Even here, we can gladly show you The L-Word on television, which, I might add, can get quite explicit, but can you imagine the “perverse” comments and raquet there will be if they DARED to show Queer as Folk on SA TV!