Richard Florida has made a career out of the study of urban renewal and created the “Bohemian-Gay Index” which finds that high concentration of gays in urban areas brings increased prosperity, jobs and home values.
Once blighted areas have been reborn with the work of gays moving into run down neighborhoods and sprucing it up.ĭr.
While that idea may have worked in the times of white flight, modern cities have experienced a resurgence. They hoped to bring hope into young people otherwise stuck in a cycle of urban decay. Sesame Street was originally conceived to be a show that could appeal to low income kids living in the working class neighborhoods of urban America. The lack of a female companion likely set up to avoid the “living in sin” fundy accusations, has fed suspicions that Rubber Ducky isn’t the only one making bath time lots of fun.īut if two men living as roommates is the basis for being gay then 40 year old World of Warcraft players living in their Mom’s basements are the epitome of straight manhood. Two men sharing dwellings for years can get suspicious. Bert and Ernieīert and Ernie are the go-to guys for the gay agenda scaremongers. While there are cases of admitted homosexuals (Dumbledore) and ones where it’s just plain obvious (Snagglepuss), several characters have had otherwise innocuous behavior or traits blown up into ‘proof’ that they are representations of the gay lifestyle. No matter how innocent or carefree a show is someone somewhere will find dirty undertones, especially gay themes. People project their anxieties or shameful desires onto other objects.Ĭhildren’s’ television shows are fertile ground for such distortion. In his study of the unconscious Freud found that the ego distorts our view of ourselves and the world around us.