Unfinished work.........
So much unfinished business........where to start....... It's been about a month since I've been able to post because I've been so busy. Well peeps I have "officially" started my doctoral dissertation, however "literally" i haven't touched it yet. Somehow as you can see, my office is still overwhelmed with unfinished work that I should have had done by now. But anyway I plan to get started sometime in the coming weeks. Today though, I would like to lighten the mood a little and talk about one of the 10 topics that I briefly discussed in my very first post. I said that I would talk about these topics eventually so since this is unfinished business I think that I should start to get to it.
BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY!!!!! I hate to be the one that had to break it to you guys, but they are. I can remember being a sophomore in college when my roommate wore a t-shirt with these beloved characters on it. I told him that I liked the shirt and he then smiled and said, "Are you gay?," I was floored and immediately became defensive. He laughed it off and said he was just kidding. I asked him why would he ask me that. He then made me privvy to a piece of information that rocked my world and caused me to call into question everything that I grew beilieving was true as a child! Those five words that stumbled off of his lips at that moment would invalidate everything I grew up believing as a child (I love being overly dramatic!!!). The guy simply said, "Bert and Ernie are gay", and thought nothing of it. He said so easily, as if it were common knowledge and I was just "out of the loop". He left and I spent the next few ours pondering every possible memory that I every had of these beloved characters, and could do nothing butcome to the same conclusion. How could I be so blind?? How could I have allowed myself to not see what was so obvious?? I felt like I did when I first heard that George Michael was gay or like I did when I found out Tevin Campbell was gay. You feel like such an idiot for not seeing it early on.
Sesame Street started in the 1960s and those of us who grew up watching this program have become remarkably more tolerant and open to homosexuality than any generation before. Could this be because as children we were unconsciously conditioned to become comfortable with the thought of two men sleeping together and taking baths together and being close to one another?? Hmmm, makes you think, huh?? Imagine if Bert and Ernie were actual actors playing these roles, do we REALLY think their behavior would have been tolerated?? They wouldn't allow that today, much less back in the 1960s. Hell, they won't even let the guys on Will & Grave have contact with another man!! The power of Sesame Street!!!! Who would have thought???
What do you think??????????
GOOD MORNING
posted by E. Lewis @ 9:48 AM
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