Gay Survivor.. gay vs. straight? ooooo
I have been a big fan of survivor for a while, although I did stop watching after the all-stars survivor with Rupert and all. When I heard about the twist survivor was putting on, I was appalled and shocked. Then, at my work they have a survivor pool, which I put $5 into. Having watched the entire season of the racially devided survivor, I think it was handled well. I think it ended up suggesting, as Jonathan said (something like) ‘it has proved that who we ally and get along with has to do with personality and not colour’… like the article said, they are “smart enough not to make it negative.” But it also was an opportunity to have different races represented in a real fashion, with real people being themselves (in an extreme situation).
If you watch towards the end, they make some comments on the race factor on survivor:
Oh man, this challenge was intense, I’m not sure the people who designed this thought it would get this rough:
Thinking about the article on “Should gay people seek to cultivate representations of a unified gay identity in the media, or is it counterproductive?” I wonder how the gay community could do that. How could a vast group of people ‘decide’ on one identity. I think it would be insulting to many, and un-needed. Am I the only one that is unaware that all other groups have one identity. I just can’t think of the ONE identity for any group. Perhaps I am uneducated in that area?
March 21, 2007 at 8:19 am
Dear Writer, i completely agree with you that you can’t put people in two extremen categories anymore being famale and male. The charcteristics and cognitive persona of gender identity vary between each person uniquely. Sure we can generalize; being whats most common for each group but times have changes so much. People are more willing to share how they really feel then before when they had to go along with the norm in fear of being frowned upon. for example like a father wanting to take time off work to raise his children.
I had never seen any survivor episodes in years, the episode you posted was quite entertaining. It does look really hard; that one girl she held on hard!!
Kindest Thoughts, Be
March 21, 2007 at 9:59 am
I think what they are getting at with respect to a distinct identity is counterproductive…it would create an image much like that of the 50′s house wife, a black slave, an oriental who eats rice….every represssed group seems to have a distinct identity to outsiders…that they try to ward off saying thats not true! Women should be treaated equally and so on……
I dont have any idea why the gay community would want such a thing…they are seeking repression by setting themselves apart and saying were different and want special treatment…wheres the equality in that?
IF YOUR GAY JUST BE GAY
March 21, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Wow, not only am I a huge Survivor fan (this season and last lol) but I also commented on the gay identity article.
I think the Survivor race stunt from last season was solely to get people watching in the beginning and as soon as everyone was outraged enough to watch, they combined the tribes and it obviously couldn’t be about race anymore, which is a good thing because those sorts of separations are wrong but it was totally just to get hype generated. It’s interesting though that after they combined tribes, the final four (if I remember correctly) were all asian. And I wonder what anyone would have been saying if they had been white… And thank goodness no one talked any smack about the african tribe getting voted off fairly early on. The whole thing seemed like it invited people to revert back to eugenic discourse in their heads, ugh. UGH. It was just wrong, wrong, wrong. I think there is some specific quality of reality TV that allowed them to pull such a stunt but I haven’t completely figured that out yet so I won’t bother you with it.
As for the article, you’re completely right. I don’t think anyone could argue that Canadian, homosexual or any other culture has a singular identity. That’s way too simple. Good post!