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In the Article “It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV” by Amy Zimmerman, Zimmerman does a good job getting the point across that there are too few bisexuals in the television industry. The few bisexuals on television are put into one of two clichés, a man’s fantasy or an experiment, and this story does a great job documenting this with evidence throughout the article. However this article seems outdated, with facts like, there have only been two shows in the recent years with bisexuals, and this seems like an unbelievable statistic, only two in all of television. In today’s society that statistic is changing, what this article leaves out is the point that the world of television is working to make changes. With time there will be more and more bisexuals in modern television and they will be …show more content…

An example the author gives is movie Dodgeball which is a relatively older movie and at that time, the bisexual community was not as open as much to speaking their mind and demanding respect, so the fact that a comedy like this may show some sort of disrespect toward the bisexual is no surprise. The surprise is, is that the author would use such an outdated example and one that is not completely relevant. The reality is, even the LGBT characters are getting more and more roles in television today and not always as a fancy cliché for example the show Modern Family, the gay couple on the show are not portrayed as a very flamboyant couple they are portrayed as a normal couple. The author blames the world of television too much and maybe one degree to high, saying the writers and producers lack creativity. Today people are still fighting for a change in a lot of areas, areas like gender equality, and sexual orientation rights a lot of this new respect is coming for the LGBT community, who did not have respect before. The world around us is constantly changing and the television networks are now at this time in a learning

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