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I watched "The Truth about Gay Animals" and frankly I was appalled. It was the worst kind of rubbish I'd ever seen and completely disgusted me. The fact is that there's a really important issue there. It's all to do with whether or not homosexuality is perceived as something that happens in nature or whether it's a purely human thing - a thing of choice, of 'morality' rather than something that happens cross-species.
It may be a facetious thing to have to argue, but a lot of people around the world still believe that homosexuality is an unnatural practice perpetrated by the godless and the evil. It cuts over issues of sexuality, issues of morality, issues of genetics, issues of society, prejudices of science. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Scott Capuro in my eyes looked all the way through it like he was bored out of his mind and spent a good proportion of his time being cruel to people from previous generations who were taught that gay people were disgusting and evil. The peopel he was being cruel to were themselves trying to be as nice as they could, even though they clearly felt uncomfortable.
I was actually EXCITED by the prospect of this program, that it was on at all! I thought it would be an interesting insight into scientific prejudice, origins of sexuality and the like AND have a few laughs in it. All in all the best kind of documentary. But in the end, I turned off about 2/3rds of the way through in disgust. There was NOTHING to redeem it in the parts I saw. And I was essentially offended by it. I have even written to Channel 4 to complain! I mean - I *never* do that shit! |
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