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Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:43 pm to bhtigerfan
And when your kid or grandkind, brings home their gay husband/wife?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:43 pm to Joshjrn
quote:Probably 15%.
I know no one has an actual tally. I'm curious what the estimates would be
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:43 pm to Joshjrn
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If you counted every person in every commercial, over the course of a month or so, and then counted how many of them are gay, what do you think those two numbers would look like?
more than the % of gays in the population but not as overrepresented as interracial couples or black people in general
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:44 pm to bhtigerfan
Touché, I’m just taking shut for the hell of it on a Saturday
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:46 pm to Sao
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I got caught up watching Joe Dirt on MTV tonight. They bleeped the words queer and homo in two scenes.
The most vulgar, gruesome, and inappropriate scenes are allowed on tv, but THIS is what they censor?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:46 pm to BigoBoys
quote:Well that will never happen because I don’t have kids.
And when your kid or grandkind, brings home their gay husband/wife?
And by the way, I don’t hate gays. I’m actually a supporter of gay marriage. I’m just sick of the pandering and over representation of gays on television.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:48 pm to lsuguy84
quote:Go frick yourself.
Touché, I’m just taking shut for the hell of it on a Saturday
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:49 pm to bhtigerfan
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:52 pm to Jake88
quote:
Probably 15%.
Gays 33%, trans maybe 10%, mixed couples 60%.
Reality 3%, .01%, 5%
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:52 pm to lsuguy84
quote:Dipshit, do you realize you’re being a homophobe by accusing someone of being gay?
lsuguy84
Am I supposed to be insulted by you accusing me of being gay?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:53 pm to bhtigerfan
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:54 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:Exactly.
Gays 33%, trans maybe 10%, mixed couples 60%.
Reality 3%, .01%, 5%
These fricking ad agencies need to be reined in.
This post was edited on 4/8/23 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:54 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:quote:
quote:If you counted every person in every commercial, over the course of a month or so, and then counted how many of them are gay, what do you think those two numbers would look like?
Gay, trans, mixed couples would be like 25x overrepresented than in reality
When are Logo TV and other gay or lesbian focused programming like soccer going to overrepresent straight people, couples, and sex to same extent in their programming and advertising???
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:54 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
Gays 33%, trans maybe 10%, mixed couples 60%
Not even close. Off by at least a factor of 10.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:55 pm to fallguy_1978
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Like 75% of them to me but that's just where we are now
Ok, now you're just intentionally avoiding the question
I watch very little TV these days, so I certainly don't claim to be an expert. But I have a sneaking suspicion that some observation biases are in play here. Now, that's not to say that I don't think gay people, or black people, or whatever, aren't over-represented in advertisements; I think they likely are. I just don't think they are over-represented by nearly the factor this board seems to think they are.
I framed the question like I did because I think the average person would vastly underestimate the number of commercials they watch, and the number of unique individuals in those commercials. And because of that, and because of the fact that they keenly remember any commercial that upsets them (by including gay people), they are over-estimating the percentage of commercials that have gay people because they are under-estimating the number of total people in the commercials they watch.
I don't care enough about the subject to do a deep dive, but I did a quick google search regarding the kind of TV I do still watch: live sports. This article is old, but I found it interesting: LINK
BCS title games, and March Madness basketball games, probably have more commercials than the average game, but considering this was from years and years ago, I imagine the average game commercial count has crept up to this point, at minimum.
Well over a hundred commercials in a football game. Just over a hundred commercials in a basketball game. Now, are there repeat commercials? Of course. And some commercials don't even contain a single human. But some contain a half dozen or more. So we're easily talking dozens, if not well over a hundred, individual unique humans in commercials in a single sporting event.
Estimates beyond this point would obviously be utterly skewed, but I was anticipating people to estimate the number of unique humans in commercials they saw in a month to be a few dozen, instead of the likely several hundred or more that it is in reality.
Because no, 75% of the people you see in commercials definitely aren't gay
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:57 pm to bhtigerfan
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If a person not from this sick fricking nation were watching television, they’d think that half of this country is gay, trans, or interracial.
Almost twenty percent of relationships are interracial relationships. They also have nothing to do with gay or trans, so maybe stop lumping them all together like a retard.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:58 pm to Joshjrn
Actually I think you'd be the one that's surprised..
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:58 pm to 0x15E
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Know how I know you’ve never left the country?
What do you mean by this?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 9:58 pm to brgfather129
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Not even close. Off by at least a factor of 10
Maybe so. Maybe half of TV couples are gay and 25% trans, but it's not reality.
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