Respect Where It's Due
27 Sep 2006 20:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patentdragonIn Today's Episode: It's Mane-of-Night and Razor to the rescue in the latest chapter of The Darkhawk Diaries, but with the obstacles ahead, can they reach Mane-of-Night's Wyridaen friends in time...?
Meanwhile... British "Oprah" Jeremy Kyle is well known for taking no crap and never sugar-coating the solutions to the problems people bring to his daytime show, and I respect him for it, but today, he earned even greater respect from me. On this morning's show, he tried to reconcile a married couple who were having "trust issues" - namely, she thought he was concealing from her the fact that he was gay.
But that's not all of it. They met several years ago when she was an escort, and he came to her to indulge his fetish for PVC and latex, and that situation only served to cement their relationship. The guy was incredibly open about his life, revealing that he'd been inspired by The Avengers when he was a teenager, but when he mentioned that he felt he needed "help", Jeremy was quick to say "hey, you don't need help for your fantasies, that's just who you are" - the kind of reaction that is so woefully rare in the world, especially in the light of recent "outrages". The whole "gay" thing appeared to come from the fact that the wife found a photo of a man in a rubber skirt on the husband's mobile - to which the husband replied that it wasn't the man that turned him on, but the skirt...
Some of the audience clearly found the whole thing hilarious, but Mr Kyle was, as usual, stoney-faced serious. He got straight to the real heart of the matter - an erosion of the trust that'd developed between the two of them - and not once did it dissolve into a fetish-bashing session.
Mister Kyle, this fetishist (and I still hate the word) salutes you.
And finally... The dust has barely settled on the Lost Season Two finale, and already people are whining about there not being enough answers to the show's growing catalogue of mysteries. For fuck's sake, that's what the whole show is about, dumbasses. If you can't hack it, go and watch "B!g B*****r" or some other oh-so-predictable "reality TV" shit. Put in some frigging effort, willya?
Meanwhile... British "Oprah" Jeremy Kyle is well known for taking no crap and never sugar-coating the solutions to the problems people bring to his daytime show, and I respect him for it, but today, he earned even greater respect from me. On this morning's show, he tried to reconcile a married couple who were having "trust issues" - namely, she thought he was concealing from her the fact that he was gay.
But that's not all of it. They met several years ago when she was an escort, and he came to her to indulge his fetish for PVC and latex, and that situation only served to cement their relationship. The guy was incredibly open about his life, revealing that he'd been inspired by The Avengers when he was a teenager, but when he mentioned that he felt he needed "help", Jeremy was quick to say "hey, you don't need help for your fantasies, that's just who you are" - the kind of reaction that is so woefully rare in the world, especially in the light of recent "outrages". The whole "gay" thing appeared to come from the fact that the wife found a photo of a man in a rubber skirt on the husband's mobile - to which the husband replied that it wasn't the man that turned him on, but the skirt...
Some of the audience clearly found the whole thing hilarious, but Mr Kyle was, as usual, stoney-faced serious. He got straight to the real heart of the matter - an erosion of the trust that'd developed between the two of them - and not once did it dissolve into a fetish-bashing session.
Mister Kyle, this fetishist (and I still hate the word) salutes you.
And finally... The dust has barely settled on the Lost Season Two finale, and already people are whining about there not being enough answers to the show's growing catalogue of mysteries. For fuck's sake, that's what the whole show is about, dumbasses. If you can't hack it, go and watch "B!g B*****r" or some other oh-so-predictable "reality TV" shit. Put in some frigging effort, willya?
