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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (30761)2/13/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: Achilles  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I'm glad to see that so many are having fun with the tinky winky thing. Falwell's gaff is, I think, socially interesting. The creators of these characters seem to have gone out of their way to create beings that are asexual--neither explicitly male or female. This effort at neutrality, when juxtaposed with a male voice coming from the costume, led Falwell (or his 'researchers') to interpret the phenomenon as disguised homosexuality and then to imagine that there was some conspiracy to import homosexual role-models into the home. I find it interesting that fear of one unknown (tinky winky) results in it being interpreted as a form of that another unknown, homosexuality, which Falwell cannot come to grip with.
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