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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 7:42 pm
The gay family won according the NY POST.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 8:51 pm
Well, well..... who would have thunk it in a conservative neighborhood. I bet THAT is what the Family Research Council is the MOST concerned about, even with their "people" looking like buffoons at the beginning. You know the gay couple IS supposed to be able to CHANGE according the FRC. Uggh.. pitoooooee! LOL
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, July 04, 2005 - 8:31 am
Also that seemed to be the smallest family so maybe that had something to do with the choice.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 04, 2005 - 9:15 am
I think the show should air and be used to teach a lesson on tolerance/intolerance.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, July 04, 2005 - 9:32 am
I agree ketch! I think it is too bad that people get so upset over something like a tv show (that could even possibly teach something).
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 12:31 am
Maybe if you were one of the families who was being belittled, you'd feel differently, though.
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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 10:37 am
I think the show should air just to show people how things really are, how people really are.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 10:43 am
Gotta' agree w/Sea. If I were one of the families that the "choosing" family had belittled, I wouldn't want my children being ridiculed on TV for all to see -- nor would I want them to hear what that other family had said about them. We KNOW it goes on -- I certainly don't need to see it for myself -- I need to work at preventing it from ever happening!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 11:02 am
Okay, I'm of two minds here. I would have liked to see the transformation of the existing homeowners, the change was probably very beautiful. On the other hand, what kind of lasting damage might this show have caused not just for the family moving in (I would probably have a hard time being friends and/or good neighbors if they'd said some of the things I've heard about me or my family), but if the families were really as ugly as they seemed at the beginning, for them, too ...
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 4:23 pm
Yeah.. and just the fact that through sometimes painful process, we've come to the place where we aren't supposed to be able to pick and choose who moves in next door (we can protest, as in the case of a known child molestor). I've lived long enough to remember how it was in Detroit in the fifties, when people were literally and STRONGLY intimidated when it came to selling a home in a "white neighborhood" to a black or ethnic family. I remember my parents being happy that our house sold in one day and what a "nice lady" bought it.. her name was Rosebud!! LOL.. the delicious thing was that apparently a few months later, her son got out of prison and moved in with her. Imagine! At that time Detroit was one of the most sharply segregated cities in the US. It was a big deal in 1960 that they were bussing in Italian kids from some other area and wanting the exisiting kids to share lunch tables with them at the elementary school. <gasp> So having a show with the premise that the neighbors get to give thumbs up or down to families, is sort of a flying down a wooden slide and running into splinters type of thing..
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Monday, July 11, 2005 - 11:24 pm
Anyone catch the short segments they aired of this show on The Soup on E!? I saw it earlier. I'm all for freedom of speech, but WOW the neighbors comments about the Korean family and gay family they showed were pretty brutal.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 5:00 am
Kc, what did they say?
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 11:00 am
Can't really remember anything word for word right now. The Korean family came and said a very nice welcome and brought a platter of sushi for the neighbors. Some of the family had their traditional ethnic clothing on. It switched to the neighbors talking about how they were wearing "costumes or something" and "they weren't sure what they were..Korean or something." Things along those lines. It just seemed kind of uncomfortable. Then the gay couple came with their adopted son. When they switched to the neighbors talking they were making some type of comments about how the partners seemed "really close"...but didn't make it seem like a positive thing. Just the few minutes of the clips seemed awkward.
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