A fine city

Just what is so glamorous about a gay couple needing help redecorating?

MediaCorp fined for airing show featuring gay couple
THE Media Development Authority (MDA) on Thursday fined MediaCorp TV Channel 5 S$15,000 for airing a show that depicted a gay couple and their baby in a way that 'promotes a gay lifestyle', MDA said in a statement on its website.

The station aired an episode of a home and decor series called Find and Design that featured a gay couple wanting to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby.

If depiction is promotion, how about the other values promoted on TV that MDA has omitted:

MDA's Lapses in Media Development

Despite the MDA's commendable efforts, I find that the MDA is not doing enough. All too often, undesirable lifestyles are depicted by local TV shows.

Over the years of watching TV, I have seen the following being depicted (either in fiction or not):

1. Couples who divorce

2. Men who have mistresses and even have children with their mistresses

3. Premarital sex

4. Abortions (Murder)

5. Men who castrate themselves and become women after practicing some weird kung fu

6. Rape and Molest

7. Potential romantic love between long-lost siblings (Incest)

8. Liang Po Po (disgusting old drag!), Liang Xi Mei (uncle in drag having two children!), and not to mention the infamous B B Belachan (Transvestitism)

9. Tomboys and effeminate men who are accepted simply because they are not lesbian or gay [Surely Singaporeans are too conservative to accept tomboys and sissies because of their transgressive, unconventional behavior?]

10. Men who look at women lustfully (adultery)

[And I'm not even listing vices such as smoking, drinking and gambling.

Will be having a hard time explaining Singapore politics to people in Shanghai. For example, ministers who are paid private sector salaries + bonuses and are not accountable for the mistakes under their watch.