Terminator 3 and its Anti Gay Bias

Phoenyx

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Where to start where to start....

Arnold walks up to the male stripper and the stripper who is gay talks in a highly effeminate voice.

Arnold after taking his clothes walks out of th ebar. Reaches in for some sunglasses and the are the Elton John light up bright type of glasses. Arnold throws them down with disgusts and steps on them..

To sum It seems that gays are flamboyant and should be terminated this film says.....




Or am I reading to much into it.
 
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I don't know one gay man that owns a pair of sunglasses like that, but my ex, straight, boyfriend did.
 
i do think this is sort of sad ... people don't realize how powerful media is
 
it's probably just as unfair to assume that all gays are flambouyant as it is to assume that they were making a statement about all gay men.

i don't think it was meant to make a general statement about gay men because the joke with the glasses took place outside of the club with no other reference to the stripper other than the fact that he took his clothes. which was in the previous scene. i see separation there. i can see how it could be taken offensively though. I laughed. but i look at it like this: i tend to take it more personally when i see a joke about chinese drivers. i laugh a little more easily when the joke is about korean or pakistani drivers. some jokes just hit a sore spot...

I owned glasses like that.... but i was 5.... hehe
 
Phoenyx said:
Where to start where to start....

Arnold walks up to the male stripper and the stripper who is gay talks in a highly effeminate voice.

Arnold after taking his clothes walks out of th ebar. Reaches in for some sunglasses and the are the Elton John light up bright type of glasses. Arnold throws them down with disgusts and steps on them..

To sum It seems that gays are flamboyant and should be terminated this film says.....




Or am I reading to much into it.

Holy Fuck, a flamboyant STRIPPER!

No way, this is big news.
 
Yeah, or an effeminate gay man....thats news too.

I think you are reading too much into that scene Phoenix.

But then again, I am not gay, and may be less than sympathetic to the sensativities of the gay community.

-or so I have been told-
 
lovely...let's just keep pushing the stereotype of the prancing queen as the only incarnation of the gay male in our society.
 
I didnt see it and I dont plan to since every penny Arnold makes on it hes going to spend to run for governor of California.
 
I try to read into various things in the media and their underlying message...

I did notice this as well. The part itself, was written by a writer, for the production studio. He added the scene for humor content, and it was humorous. The fully packed audience had a pretty good laugh at the whole Sunglasses scene, and I did as well. It wasn't meant as a gay-slander... they were just trying to get a cheap laugh.
 
Does that mean Terminator 1 had an anti-punker bias since they portrayed Arnold's first 3 victims (the punkers with the telescope) as assholes, two of which were then killed?
 
LarzMachine said:
Does that mean Terminator 1 had an anti-punker bias since they portrayed Arnold's first 3 victims (the punkers with the telescope) as assholes, two of which were then killed?

Hey maybe.
The whole point of Arnold movies is for people to get a thrill out of watching the kind of people they dont like getting their ass kicked as far as I can see.
 
I shudder the thought

of AArrrnould being our next Burgermeister er I mean governor.
 
I don't think Skynet programed terminators with a 'gay bashing' sub routine. More likely a 'human bashing' sub routine.

Some people can laugh at the image of arnold in star shaped sun glasses, and some can't. I thought it was kind of a cheap laugh.
 
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I don`t know if this helps but isn`t T3 set in 97? I don`t remember much from back then but maybe that`s how things were back then and i don`t think the film meant to appear gay bashing but the guy was playing this machine from the future and didn`t know the proper ettiquette of that era..

I hope that helps..:D
 
Here's an interesting one for all of ya.

In Star Trek: TNG there was an episode where they introduced a new alien race called the Trill. They were a symbiotic race that live inside the bodies of humanoids. because of their nature, they could outlive their hosts, so they would have to be transfered into a new body eventually.

Now, the ships doctor fell in love with one, not knowing his nature. He was in an accident, and only then, to preserve his own life did he tell her what he was, and what she had to do to save him from death.

The first officer played host to the trill for a short time, while the doctor tried to figure out her feelings for him. She realized she did love him. But in the end, the new host that came for him from his home planet turned out to be female. The doctors claim was that she just couldn't keep up with the way he switched bodies...

If any of you have seen the episode, I've probably not done it justice, but anyway, what do the rest of you think of this story?
 
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