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Was just watching part of an episode of "Everwood" on TV... the episode description said something along the lines of "After Kyle has a bad date with a girl from school, Ephram's suspicions are raised." Which piqued my interest. And the plot did turn out to be what I thought, that the Kyle character admits to being gay.
But how long till we have a show like that, where instead of the character coming out as gay, they come out as asexual? Why is it assumed that when someone doesn't enjoy dating people of one sex, that they must be attracted to the other sex? Why can't one of these characters come out and say "I have no interest in going out on dates with girls or with boys, nor in sex, and I don't think I ever will. I can't understand why my friends are interested in all this dating and kissing and sex stuff. It seems weird to me." etc.
It seems to me that in TV shows, the age at which boys and girls are portrayed as being interested in dating and the other sex has dropped significantly since when I was growing up. Nowadays, they even show 5-year old youngsters wanting to go on "dates" and to kiss (even if at that age, it is only shown as a peck on the cheek or lips). And I wonder if this a reflection on reality, or if kids, in watching these TV shows, will feel like doing it because it is being portrayed as the "normal thing"... ie., if reality will start reflecting TV.
When I watch shows on TV, sometimes I can't tell if certain scenes are supposed to be believable or not - if they are supposed to accurately portray how real-life people might feel & act, or if the scene is supposed to be an over-the-top parody - because the scenes do not seem believable from my own viewpoint. I was channel-surfing recently, and came across an episode of "Seventh Heaven". This is an odd, over-the-top show to begin with... (in this episode all the characters were using the euphemism "to have an adult relationship" instead of saying "to have sex")... but in this episode, the youngest girl of the family, now a teenager I guess, has a boyfriend... and he walked into the room where she was, they looked at each other for a brief moment, and then they grabbed each other and started tongue-kissing as if they'd been YEARNING to do so.
Apparently this was supposed to be funny. But it seemed weird to me. Would a boyfriend and girlfriend (etc.) really be yearning to tongue-kiss each other that badly, that they'd go after each other like that, just on the spur of the moment? I don't know.
But how long till we have a show like that, where instead of the character coming out as gay, they come out as asexual? Why is it assumed that when someone doesn't enjoy dating people of one sex, that they must be attracted to the other sex? Why can't one of these characters come out and say "I have no interest in going out on dates with girls or with boys, nor in sex, and I don't think I ever will. I can't understand why my friends are interested in all this dating and kissing and sex stuff. It seems weird to me." etc.
It seems to me that in TV shows, the age at which boys and girls are portrayed as being interested in dating and the other sex has dropped significantly since when I was growing up. Nowadays, they even show 5-year old youngsters wanting to go on "dates" and to kiss (even if at that age, it is only shown as a peck on the cheek or lips). And I wonder if this a reflection on reality, or if kids, in watching these TV shows, will feel like doing it because it is being portrayed as the "normal thing"... ie., if reality will start reflecting TV.
When I watch shows on TV, sometimes I can't tell if certain scenes are supposed to be believable or not - if they are supposed to accurately portray how real-life people might feel & act, or if the scene is supposed to be an over-the-top parody - because the scenes do not seem believable from my own viewpoint. I was channel-surfing recently, and came across an episode of "Seventh Heaven". This is an odd, over-the-top show to begin with... (in this episode all the characters were using the euphemism "to have an adult relationship" instead of saying "to have sex")... but in this episode, the youngest girl of the family, now a teenager I guess, has a boyfriend... and he walked into the room where she was, they looked at each other for a brief moment, and then they grabbed each other and started tongue-kissing as if they'd been YEARNING to do so.
Apparently this was supposed to be funny. But it seemed weird to me. Would a boyfriend and girlfriend (etc.) really be yearning to tongue-kiss each other that badly, that they'd go after each other like that, just on the spur of the moment? I don't know.