Smithers: Keep It In The Closet

Springfield's most confirmed bachelor Waylon Smithers will finally come out to the withered object of his affection, Mr. Burns, in the next episode of The Simpsons, "The Burns Cage."

But Mr. Burns, being the oldest man alive, has remained either oblivious or completely ignorant to Smithers's feelings—until episode 17 of season 27. According to the episode's official synopsis:

When Smithers is devastated by Burns' lack of affection towards him, Homer makes it his mission to find him a boyfriend. Meanwhile, after Bart orchestrates the removal of the lead in the school's stage production of Casablanca, Milhouse serves as a terrible understudy, which frustrates his co-star, Lisa.

“In Springfield now, most people know he’s gay, but obviously Burns doesn’t,” executive producer Al Jean told TV Line last September. “We deal with that in two episodes.…We actually do a lot with Smithers this year; he gets fed up with Burns not appreciating him and considers his options.” ...

Out.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

The whole point of Smithers is he's in thecloset.

This is as dumb as making Homer Simpson smart.

Sex Panic: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?!

Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or a group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to; the condition then disappears, submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible. Sometimes the object of the panics is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight. Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society conceives itself...

Folk Devils & Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen (1972).

Ban the internet! Ban electricity! Ban children! Ban Page 3! Ban lads' mags! Ban the body! Ban sex! Ban twerking! Ban wanking! Ban fun! Ban fag packets! Ban cheap booze! Ban legal highs! Ban video games! Ban ask.fm! Ban Twitter! Ban travellers! Ban benefits! Ban squatting! Ban gay! Ban the niqab! Ban the BBC! Ban Stoli! Ban Sochi! Ban Russia! Ban rational thought! Ban brains! Ban the bum! BAN THE BAN!
Brass Eye Paedophilia special, Channel 4, 2001 - a satire on media-driven hysteria and moral panics.
You gotta laugh to keep from crying...

Update: More Pornballs - Compulsive users of porn show the same signs of addiction in their brain as those hooked on booze or drugs, according to researchers The Daily Mail.

• Sex & Censorship conference organised by @PornPanic, London, Monday September 23rd.

B&B Bigots: Some Very Sad News

 

Daily Mail.

Oh, this is just terrible.

Poor show THE GAYS!

PS Richard Littlejohn - the thinking man's Bertrand Russell - wades in.
"Not for the first time it's obvious that those 'liberals' who preach 'tolerance' are themselves the most vile, intolerant bigots imaginable."