Short stories, Actors, and Gay characters.

Good morning everyone,


As you can see I'm trying to pick up the blogging thing again. Growing up I loved the show Degrassi:The Next Generation and I loved that it tackled teenage issues that teens faced, though sometimes it got to be a bit dramatic. Once it became "The Boiling Point" at season 10, the show just got to be a bit ridiculous but now Degrassi has just gotten ridiculous. You do not have that many gay students that come out of the closet in such a short period. To be honest they should have left the gay characters alone after Marco. However they did include Riley and Zayne. Okay fair enough, but now we have the homosexual male characters who are the girly/stereotypical queens, the transgender character, and gothic/melodramatic (well.........Ellie toned down towards the end of her run on the show) characters who are of no interest. I'm also not fond of them turning Claire into a whore just to make good TV. Anyway......................................We also had South Of Nowhere which was a good show, yes the protagonista was a character dealing with her sexuality as she later on discovers that she is not into guys. The show tackled other issues as well and unlike Degrassi, it did not need a million characters to do it. Did I mention that the actors were like in their mid-twenties playing teenagers? The youngest two actors were Chris Hunter who plays Glen and Eileen April Boylan who plays Kyla. They're both younger than I am in real life and they were college aged at the time of the show playing high school characters. Aasha Davis who played Chelsea was like 32 or 33 years old filming at the time. It seems that when you have older actors play the parts they stories are a bit more conveying but at the same time in the back of your mind you think "damn, you play 16 so well but you're like 22" lol. What I like about SON is that while the main character is lesbian, they did not make her the primary character of the show.

It seems that when gay characters are added into the mix, they seem to be the character that everybody is interested in. YES gay people exist, YES they are people, but you do not need them in every TV show just to create diversity. It seems that gay characters are now placed in TV shows simply to fill a void or satisfy a quota  and at one time it was needed, but now that we have entire channels catering to the LGBT population (teens included), the token gay guy is no longer needed in every show. If you are going to put one in, let it happen naturally and for ONCE, I'd like to see a gay character who is not over the top and does not display the ridiculously stereotypical girly manners.

Okay I've ranted enough, but I'm in the process of writing short stories, I'd like to focus on adolescents and adolescent issues similar to the shows listed, but put more emphasis on friendship and trials than sexuality. Perhaps have it a bit more family integrated as well.  I need to create a tumblr page see where that takes me. If  the stories were ever picked up, maybe some good actors could play the parts. The is IF sexuality and orientation are discussed in the series the focus would be more as a whole vs one character. I'd like for it to be raw. I think it could work out.

IT'S BEEN FOREVER

Wow,

It's been forever since posting anything and really to be honest w/ you my job had me so burned out that I had actually lost motivation to post anything for a while, however being a member of Toastmasters and in conjunction w/ needing to get it off of my chest has prompted me to begin posting. This last year at work has been a living hell. My initial supervisor left, and I was assigned another supervisor. Things were going smoothly initially however as time went by I got to see this person for the vindictive individual that she really is. To be honest w/ you I believe she may be a sociopath. She lacked empathy, she was vindictive, she saw no wrong in how she treated others, she was one of those individuals who was on a power trip, who wanted all of the respect in the world, however when it came to giving respect, she did not want to give any. Last year, there was not one day that I was not raked over the coals, for every little thing. Things that other workers in the group could get away w/, I was taken through the ringer. It was to the point that my health was compromised! I developed a huge knot on my neck that ultimately bursts ( I believe God removed it because the doctors certainly did not). It got to the point that this particular supervisor begin to nitpick anything and everything I did. She begin no only downgrading me to my coworkers, my clients, but other agencies as well (hence the reason jobs that I was a applying for at other agencies/companies were not calling me). Not only that she wanted to know all of my whereabouts at work. The demands got more ridiculous [and demeaning] until she retired. She did not return after the Thanksgiving holiday and I have another supervisor now. He's not as demanding as she was but for some reason I just do not trust anybody at the office now. I'm always walking on eggshells, and I don't get excited about much of anything anymore. Right now, I'm going to leave it at that.