TV3 Toy Show, inappropriatally sexual for a kids show?

newmug

I had a look for a thread on this, but I couldn't find one. I'm sure there's one somewhere though.


So anyway, apart from the fact that it was rubbish, does anyone else think that what the gay was fella saying about his action man toy was way too overtly sexual for a kids show? He said that action man was his favourite in such an "OOoohh Matron" kind of way, then he said he used to undress him, and then CROSS dress him! Even if it was true, why would you say that to anyone?


If you're gay, you're gay, whatever, I don't care. But I don't want my kids to know about things of a sexual nature for a few years to come yet. If that was a straight man saying his favourite doll was his sisters Barbie, and that he used to undress her for pervy reasons, there would have been uproar.

Ave Sodalis

Didn't see the show but since when was cross dressing sexual or pervy?

newmug

sup_dude wrote: »

Didn't see the show but since when was cross dressing sexual or pervy?

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Since the day it was invented

Ave Sodalis

newmug wrote: »

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Since the day it was invented

Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections. Again, I didn't see the clip but I'm assuming he didn't specify that there was anything sexual connected to it. In which case, is this just a case of being outraged for the sake of being outraged?

seventeen sheep

Didn't watch it (who watches those things?!), but I don't see anything wrong with it?

You seem to think that he said Action Man was his favourite in a sexual or pervy way, maybe that's just your own interpretation. Nothing wrong with the statement, maybe if you had a link to the show, it would help?

And, erm, we all undressed our dolls (the male and the female ones) ... that's kind of the point of them having removable clothes, and different outfits, etc? And if I'd had an Action Man or a Ken doll, I'm pretty sure I'd have gotten great craic out of dressing them up in my Barbie's tutu. Is that weird? (I'm straight and female, by the way.) It's just what kids do!

degsie

Here is your lookup word for today. Homophobia.

SEPT 23 1989

Dont think young kids understand or care about cross dressing action men

stimpson

newmug wrote: »

I had a look for a thread on this, but I couldn't find one. I'm sure there's one somewhere though.


So anyway, apart from the fact that it was rubbish, does anyone else think that what the gay was fella saying about his action man toy was way too overtly sexual for a kids show? He said that action man was his favourite in such an "OOoohh Matron" kind of way, then he said he used to undress him, and then CROSS dress him! Even if it was true, why would you say that to anyone?


If you're gay, you're gay, whatever, I don't care. But I don't want my kids to know about things of a sexual nature for a few years to come yet. If that was a straight man saying his favourite doll was his sisters Barbie, and that he used to undress her for pervy reasons, there would have been uproar.

You are obviously projecting. I think you have unresolved issues from your childhood.





Tell me about your mother.

MagicMarker

newmug wrote: »

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Since the day it was invented

What sexual gratification would a gay man get by put a skirt on an Action Man?

Saipanne

You're children aren't homophobic, why are you?

Ave Sodalis

MagicMarker wrote: »

What sexual gratification would a gay man get by put a skirt on an Action Man?

And since it says "used to", I'm guess it was when he was a child.

Oops69

Homophobe , I suppose you'd prefer to teach your children homophobia then,COP ON !

newmug

sup_dude wrote: »

Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections. Again, I didn't see the clip but I'm assuming he didn't specify that there was anything sexual connected to it. In which case, is this just a case of being outraged for the sake of being outraged?

I'll give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt here, seeing as you continuously state that you didn't see the show. It was a GAY man, telling the story of how his favourite CHILDHOOD toy was Action Man. Grand. But then he went on to say how he used to undress him (why would you do that, if not for some sort of twisted sexual thrill), and also cross dress him, into female clothes. This guy was layering it on thick, it was obvious that he had a sexual motive for doing these things. It was all so skin-crawlingly obvious that he loved saying this.


And as for "Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections.", come off it, will ya? Of course it has a sexual motive. Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

deise08

I saw it and was very unimpressed!,
He was talking about his topless action man, becoming his bottomless action man. For obvious reasons he was saying. then about it becoming his action man being dressed in Barbie clothes and the rest is obvious.
I thought it Brian being Brian! I also thought it was inappropriate.
Very misjudged by Tv3.

r3nu4l

So many people who didn't see it, commenting on this thread.

The OP is perhaps not phrased as well as it could be but I agree that the segment was overtly sexual and unsuitable for young kids.

Plenty of comments about it in the thread dedicated to the show in the television forum.

Nothing to do with Brian being gay. Had it being a female saying how much she liked having Barbie's Ken with his shirt off and leering at the camera the way Brian was, it still would have been unsuitable for the show.

Ave Sodalis

newmug wrote: »

I'll give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt here, seeing as you continuously state that you didn't see the show. It was a GAY man, telling the story of how his favourite CHILDHOOD toy was Action Man. Grand. But then he went on to say how he used to undress him (why would you do that, if not for some sort of twisted sexual thrill), and also cross dress him, into female clothes. This guy was layering it on thick, it was obvious that he had a sexual motive for doing these things. It was all so skin-crawlingly obvious that he loved saying this.


And as for "Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections.", come off it, will ya? Of course it has a sexual motive. Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

Ohhh dear....

MagicMarker

newmug wrote: »

I'll give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt here, seeing as you continuously state that you didn't see the show. It was a GAY man, telling the story of how his favourite CHILDHOOD toy was Action Man. Grand. But then he went on to say how he used to undress him (why would you do that, if not for some sort of twisted sexual thrill), and also cross dress him, into female clothes. This guy was layering it on thick, it was obvious that he had a sexual motive for doing these things. It was all so skin-crawlingly obvious that he loved saying this.


And as for "Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections.", come off it, will ya? Of course it has a sexual motive. Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

As a young boy I sometimes walked around in my mums heels.

Thanks to you I now know it was because I was sexually deviant.

DoYouEvenLift

on the topic of dolls

Macavity.

degsie wrote: »

Here is your lookup word for today. Homophobia.

I think, perhaps, it should be your lookup word for today.

stimpson

newmug wrote: »

Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

They do. They're called Furries.

seventeen sheep

r3nu4l wrote: »

So many people who didn't see it, commenting on this thread.

The OP is perhaps not phrased as well as it could be but I agree that the segment was overtly sexual and unsuitable for young kids.

Plenty of comments about it in the thread dedicated to the show in the television forum.

Nothing to do with Brian being gay. Had it being a female saying how much she liked having Barbie's Ken with his shirt off and leering at the camera the way Brian was, it still would have been unsuitable for the show.

Fair enough, but seeing as he didn't post a link, we can only go off what he posted in the OP.

If it was in the TV forums, fair enough, I wouldn't comment without having seen it. But this is AH ... I think it's a bit farfetched to assume many of his target audience have even seen it ... yet he wants opinions. If he had posted a link, I would have watched it before commenting.

kneemos

stimpson wrote: »

Tell me about your mother.

Please don't.

nxbyveromdwjpg

Some of the replies here are funny, it's like the guy gets a free pass for sleazy sexual innuendo on a kids show because he's gay

Ave Sodalis

nm wrote: »

Some of the replies here are funny, it's like the guy gets a free pass for sleazy sexual innuendo on a kids show because he's gay

This was coming from never having seen the show and going by the OP. However, given the post below, I'm not quite sure it's unjustified, even if the guy on the show was being overly sexual.

newmug wrote: »

I'll give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt here, seeing as you continuously state that you didn't see the show. It was a GAY man, telling the story of how his favourite CHILDHOOD toy was Action Man. Grand. But then he went on to say how he used to undress him (why would you do that, if not for some sort of twisted sexual thrill), and also cross dress him, into female clothes. This guy was layering it on thick, it was obvious that he had a sexual motive for doing these things. It was all so skin-crawlingly obvious that he loved saying this.


And as for "Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections.", come off it, will ya? Of course it has a sexual motive. Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

Cienciano

A gay tv presenter using sexual innuendo to get laughs? I'm shocked

degsie

degsie wrote: »

Here is your lookup word for today. Homophobia.

Are you equating homosexuality with transvestitism? That's pretty poor form.

kneemos

nm wrote: »

Some of the replies here are funny, it's like the guy gets a free pass for sleazy sexual innuendo on a kids show because he's gay

Depends how he said it.
Maybe the OP is picking up sexual innuendo because he is gay.
Or "the gay fella"as he calls him.

newmug

seventeen sheep wrote: »

Fair enough, but seeing as he didn't post a link, we can only go off what he posted in the OP.

If it was in the TV forums, fair enough, I wouldn't comment without having seen it. But this is AH ... I think it's a bit farfetched to assume many of his target audience have even seen it ... yet he wants opinions. If he had posted a link, I would have watched it before commenting.

Eh, why? Its only national TV like?

Cienciano wrote: »

A gay tv presenter using sexual innuendo to get laughs? I'm shocked

ON A NATIONAL TV KIDS SHOW!!!

Un Croissant

And then a couple of drag queens arrived on.

Tv3 pushing the global gay agenda and conspiracy, transvestite something something.....

Oops69

If he was inappropriate then tv3 should be reprimanded for it whatever his sexuality , suggesting that gay people get a free pass with this behaviour , if inappropriate ,is in itself homophobia.

kneemos

Un Croissant wrote: »

And then a couple of drag queens arrived on.

Tv3 pushing the global gay agenda and conspiracy, transvestite something something.....

What are Pantos made up of?

Un Croissant

kneemos wrote: »

What are Pantos made up of?

I hate Panto.

Louder!

I said I hate Panto!

What's that?

I HATE PANTO!

I can't heeear you.

deise08

Un Croissant wrote: »

I hate Panto.

Louder!

I said I hate Panto!

What's that?

I HATE PANTO!


I can't heeear you.

OH NO YOU DON'T!

Un Croissant

deise08 wrote: »

OH NO YOU DON'T!

OH YES I DO!!

Ad nauseam..

Saipanne

Nothing more sexually suggestive than a pantomime dame...

fineso.mom

If you had said ' the presenter' instead of saying ' the gay fella', I would have taken the rest of what you had to say more seriously.
Based on what I've read elsewhere I agree that his comments were inappropriate, but
not because he's gay. He's just not a particularily accomplished presenter.

tk123

Just watched in on 3 player. He says putting Barbie's clothes on action made him like playing with Barbie "and the rest is history" I didn't find it pervy or see him leering at the camera?! I wasn't a barbie/doll kind of girl but remember my cousins dolls were always naked

OP kids know what gay is from a young age without you telling them - you should ask them and see what they say.

We asked my 5 year old nephew one time when he said somebody on tv (big brother maybe?) was gay which is was

"Do you know what gay means!?" - he doesn't have english as his first language so we were intrigued as to what he's come out with
"YES?! It means he likes girls for friends but not for love"
:pac:

Macavity.

The OP definitely could have been phrased better. Mentioning he was gay wasn't really relevant, but what was aired was certainly not appropriate for children IMO.

humanji

Stop with the insults, folks.

padd b1975

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Dont think young kids understand or care about cross dressing action men

Let's keep it that way.

padd b1975

Un Croissant wrote: »

And then a couple of drag queens arrived on.

One of them was Glenda Gilson I think.

Paulzx

This was a kids toy show. Was a clip with sexual innuendo actually needed as part of the show? Not on your nelly was it.

It's basically Brian Dowling doing his "look at me, look at me, I'm gay thing" Personally, I don't give a **** about a persons sexuality. It's irrelevant to me. What I find nauseating is the attention seeking in an inappropriate place.

I think that clip was prerecorded as well so you have to question the production staff actually feeling it was relevant to a kids toy show

aidoh

Had to go look for that clip on the TV3 player to see what all the fuss was about.

It's at 1:12:33.
http://www.tv3.ie/3player/show/694/87226/1/The-Christmas-Toy-Show

I think it's inappropriate for a childrens show. At the same time though I don't know if kids would pick up on the kind of overly-sexual vibe he was putting out.
See for yourselves sure.

Zamboni

Is Brian Dowling gay?

cruais

I have a very dirty sense of humour so no risk of me getting easily offended.

However, i remember raising my eyebrow and thinking it was a bit risqué when brian was speaking. It was a case of saying one thing, meaning another

padd b1975

Zamboni wrote: »

Is Brian Dowling gay?

Gay as Christmas.


Ironically.

Frank O. Pinion

newmug wrote: »

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Since the day it was invented

Invented?

newmug wrote: »

And as for "Cross dressing is dressing in clothes designed for members of the other sex. It doesn't mean it has any sexual connections.", come off it, will ya? Of course it has a sexual motive. Why don't people go around dressing up as walrus's then?

Women's panties are really comfortable, you know. Nothing sexual about being comfortable.

Cienciano

Zamboni wrote: »

Is Brian Dowling gay?

He's not only gay, but he's the only gay in the village

P_1

If it aired after the watershed (9pm) then no harm no foul in my eyes.

PopePalpatine

newmug wrote: »

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Since the day it was invented

I take it you were protesting outside the local Xtra-Vision when Mrs. Brown D'Movie came out on DVD? :rolleyes:

MistyCheese

Well I've certainly worn mens undies before for comfort. Not old undies, I bought a pack of mens boxers. I wouldn't have considered myself a transvestite really. Maybe I am.

Come to think of it I have worn mens jumpers on occasion too. Never shoes or pants though.