S66 2-4-1 : Discussion & Chat

(09-09-2012 01:41 )eccles Wrote:  Its odd that Ofcom say GG interaction risks widespread offence. This seems to be blatant antigay discrimination - they would not say that its offensive for a man and a woman to snog, otherwise the entire James Bond genre would have to be banned. And its OK for two men to snog in family soaps. What makes it even more odd is that their own detailed study into public attitudes supported the same rules for gay and straight and did not object to kissing.

Ofcom are making it up.

I suppose there is the factor that the supposition is not that these women are gay but that they are heterosexuals exploiting a heterosexual male fantasy of girls kissing each other for male pleasure.

If the babechannels hired outright gay women to engage in realistic lesbian interaction (e.g. without breaking off to attend to an imaginary phallus every couple of minutes) then the antigay discrimination angle could be more interesting.

But as any realistic portrayal of lesbianism would involve telling the panting male wanker on the phone to feck off, it's probably not workable.