AfterElton Briefs: Rob & Arnie's "very special episode", Harvey Milk has his day in school, and more!

I always love it when it's a snicks day for Briefs - he has the most incredible taste in men.  It seems to match mine!  ;)

WOW!! Good for him! Quite the courage! 

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R.I.P.  Heath

JEFFREY WRIGHT for "MLK Jr" biopic!

I keep having this image flash through my head from a long ago Will & Grace episode wherein Jack was pretending to be Cher and his line was: "My daughter's a what!?".

and this guy, the face looks a little like Freddie Prinz Jr..... or am I the only one dreamin here!???!!  I love it when Snicks does anything.....

in response to the chasity bono thing, an old friend wrote me:

 'so liz, when will you become a boy?'

i emailed them back and said 'never. i enjoy being a woman, except when i'm cramping like a bitch' and then we went and had this annoying debate about the whole "well, if you dress like a boy, and look like a boy" thing.....

I personally am not a 'girly' dresser, but i also don't dress totally like a guy....but reading the emails, i did think "oh great, i just know people are gonna start thinking lesbians secretly want to be men..."

almost reminds me of the article today about 'effeminate' men and how some think gay men want to be women. frusterating.

As apologies go, that seems pretty decent. It didn't look like a PR-speak apology.

Just for the record, I have zero idea why I have spent any time accepting what these people say or why I've defended their trolls. It must be some intuitive thing that I'll only understand later. Weird.

I'd be able to swallow thier apology easier if they'd made it before their jobs were threatened. Not a word of apology until they'd lost 12 sponsers? Seems to me the higher ups are trying to run damage control. 

People that actually whistle while they work deserve what they get.

Rob took pause several times to specifically spank the bigoted fans of his show who have been logging into sites, like AE, to rant about Free Speech rights. (that's how he started the show) He lumped the lice into the same group (both on the side of the road) with people like me, who would gladly see him fired.

But an even bigger admission to me was another fact that Rob took pains to mention several times: that his decision to air an apology was not about money nor the opinions of advertisers, "it is not about dollars and sense." Methinks the profound egotist doth protest too much. It's a transparent lie.

Think about it, after a dozen of your largest advertisers pull all their ads from your station because of one show, even if it's your stations most popular show, any station manager would be an idiot if his first response wouldn't be to cancel the show. It is that glaring of a situation, especially seeing that several other advertisers would likely follow suit if amends were not made.

It might not be only about the money for him, but Mr. Ego-For-Hire would have had his show canceled otherwise, because for the station it is about the money. Blow hards of his ilk are a dime a dozen and there is no way in hell he would find another job or fan base like the one he has if he were canned from this job. It was grow up or get out. He made the intelligent choice, I grant him that.

That station may still have to work hard to get new advertisers or get the others to return., to pay for thier losses and believe me, other station managers are listening

Yeah, Rob did the right thing because he was forced to do the right thing. But the way the show was conducted was remarkable. Intelligent and informative. I doubt that a show on the issue of trans gender issues was so anticipated in the region and the show certainly reached more people because of the flap and for that we must be grateful. Rob and Arnie sounded completely contrite. Their main issue, of course, wasn't gender identity or transphobia, but child abuse. They made that clear. I mean, they would have gotten off the hook if they had been talking about adults and beating up adults. I am pretty sure that this is an issue that they won't be talking about in the near future.
I do have to give kudos to GLAAD, who I have critisized in the past. This time thier model did work, and I am grateful for that.

 

in the green trunks is SOOOOO cute!!