Andrew-Austin
07-15-2011, 07:48 PM
I was reminded of this after seeing the subject of gay stereotypes come up in the threads about Bachman's allegedly gay husband.
I stumbled across this show a couple nights ago on TV. While watching I had no idea he was gay, and I wouldn't have ever guessed it. I only found out at the end when he told the story of him not being allowed to join the Marines after winning.
Show wasn't half bad, better than anything else on at the time. Checkout it out if you see a re-run.
Link to story:
http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/07/one-man-army-review
The testosterone is running thick in The Discovery Channel's new reality show One Man Army, which claims to pit "four of the deadliest men on the planet" in rigorous competition for the title of "One Man Army."
They're making it sound a little like that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man, aren't they? But the men aren't in competition directly against each other here — not hand-to-hand anyway. Yes, they do variations on the usual reality show tests, but these tasks rely more on brute strength and gun skills.
The "operatives" are a weapons instructor, an army force para-rescue member, a S.W.A.T. team member, and a U.S. Military Marshall. It's all hosted by a man named Mykel Hawke, which sounds like a porn star name, but he's actually U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and former Green Beret. He couldn't be more somber and campy and wonderful.
So who will win in the premiere episode? Will it be the grizzled veteran? The gun nut? The cocky, but green upstart?
Here's what I can say: there's a twist at the end that pretty much rivals the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense. And it's gay.
"I've been asked why didn't I join the military?" the winner says at the very end. "And the truth is, when I wanted to go in, they said they didn't want gays. I'm a rule-follower, and I wasn't going to be able to lie. I've spent a lot of my life battling that. I hope that I've changed people's minds. Maybe there's more than meets the eye."
Not all of the article was quoted above, click link to see more plus a quick interview of the winner. The winner is the guy on the far left in the pic.
This story just reminds us of the limitations of stereotypes and of issuing judgments upon a labeled collective.
I stumbled across this show a couple nights ago on TV. While watching I had no idea he was gay, and I wouldn't have ever guessed it. I only found out at the end when he told the story of him not being allowed to join the Marines after winning.
Show wasn't half bad, better than anything else on at the time. Checkout it out if you see a re-run.
Link to story:
http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/07/one-man-army-review
The testosterone is running thick in The Discovery Channel's new reality show One Man Army, which claims to pit "four of the deadliest men on the planet" in rigorous competition for the title of "One Man Army."
They're making it sound a little like that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man, aren't they? But the men aren't in competition directly against each other here — not hand-to-hand anyway. Yes, they do variations on the usual reality show tests, but these tasks rely more on brute strength and gun skills.
The "operatives" are a weapons instructor, an army force para-rescue member, a S.W.A.T. team member, and a U.S. Military Marshall. It's all hosted by a man named Mykel Hawke, which sounds like a porn star name, but he's actually U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and former Green Beret. He couldn't be more somber and campy and wonderful.
So who will win in the premiere episode? Will it be the grizzled veteran? The gun nut? The cocky, but green upstart?
Here's what I can say: there's a twist at the end that pretty much rivals the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense. And it's gay.
"I've been asked why didn't I join the military?" the winner says at the very end. "And the truth is, when I wanted to go in, they said they didn't want gays. I'm a rule-follower, and I wasn't going to be able to lie. I've spent a lot of my life battling that. I hope that I've changed people's minds. Maybe there's more than meets the eye."
Not all of the article was quoted above, click link to see more plus a quick interview of the winner. The winner is the guy on the far left in the pic.
This story just reminds us of the limitations of stereotypes and of issuing judgments upon a labeled collective.