| THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POST |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|03:05 pm] |
All right, ladies and non-ladies who happen to stumble on this journal. I have a mission for you.
Recently, Adam Lambert gave a ~controversial performance on the American Music Awards. In said performance, Mr. Lambert proceeded to get his gay groove on with some face-to-crotch action and some mankissing. It was great. Now, despite the fact that there were several other ~sexual moments throughout the awards show, (Eminem singing about multiple rapes, Janet Jackson getting all crotchgrabby on a male dancer, Lady Gaga smashing whiskey bottles on pianos, and ladies in various states of skimpy) people are all up in a tizzy about Adam having a little fun and getting a little dirty. And while the right-wing-nutjob fundies are easy enough to ignore among their howling cries for us to "think of the childrennnnnn," it's gone a tic farther than that.
Short story: ABC fails.
Long story: The night after Adam's AMA performance, he had a performance scheduled for Good Morning America. Said performance? Cancelled. Why, you ask? Because the network was "concerned" that Adam would repeat a performance of that calibur (i.e. kiss more dudes) in an early morning show.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is only the beginning of the bullshit wafting towards your nostrils.
While Adam was rescheduled to perform on The Early Show, the failboat just keeps on sailing. When replaying clips of Adam's performance, they blurred out the face-to-crotch action (somewhat understandable) but also blurred out the kiss that he shared with his bassist. This would be slightly less of a blatant double-standard had they not shown an image of Britney and Madonna making out, uncensored.
Their reasoning for this? To paraphrase, because people have seen the Madonna/Britney before and it wasn't a big deal.
I, as well as his multitudes of fans, are enraged at this act of obvious bias and homophobia that this network has endorsed. In light of this, I present a petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/FabAdamL/
You think that those 1,500 complaints (out of 14 million viewers) was a lot from the AMAs, ABC? Well, this petition already has over 2000- and it was created yesterday. Let's show 'em what we're made of.
Sign it if you think Adam's censoring is as disgusting as I do, people. Even if you don't like Adam Lambert, support equality. Support the arts. Sign and stand up. |
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