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02 Nov 2014, 1:12 am

Gay people are news? I thought everyone knew about them. I've even met a few.


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02 Nov 2014, 1:28 am

my sibling is one.


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02 Nov 2014, 1:44 am

My daughter's Godfather is bi, and is in a relationship with a transsexual woman, while my best man when I got married is gay.


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02 Nov 2014, 7:46 am

Krabo wrote:
Do you Americans have the same problem as we have in Scandinavia? If I watch Finnish TV news, it is about homosexuality. If I switch to Swedish TV, it is homosexuality. Norwegian. Danish.

Icelandic. Faroe Islands. Greenland.

If I was one, I would join them. Please, give me reports on Ukrainian gas problem. Turkish parliament. Uzbekistan sheep. Traffic statistics in Bhutan.

Not homosexuality.

Gives people a break from depressing war and economic news, maybe. That's all I ever see on the news here in Oz ? plus the upcoming G20 summit in Brisbane (hellooooo, Presidents Obama and Putin :P). Social issues tend to make captivating personal interest stories, which makes them more relatable to people than, say, political analyses and economic forecasts. That said, I don't really hear much on the news about LGBT issues here ? well, at least until same-sex marriage becomes a political issue again. Is it regularly in the news in Scandinavia, or are TV news programmes covering something specific that's happening ATM?

(BTW, who did you mean you'd join if you were one: Americans or homosexuals? Just curious. :P )


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02 Nov 2014, 9:59 am

Krabo wrote:
I have to admit that I don't know the answer. It could be either way. My language is extremely flexible. Say any sentence in Finnish, there's always two meanings. It is like Hebrew, you can see it two ways. That's why God wrote the Bible in Hebrew. He gave us mental gymnastics.


To answer your original question: Same sex marriage is an issue. But its just one minor serving on the news buffet. Gay issues dont dominate news here.. Local elections dominate at the moment. We had an overload of foriegn crises on the media menu of the last few weeks, Nigeria, Ukraine, ISIS, but no single thing beside the election really dominates at the moment. Even ISIS has kinda fallen to the back pages.

But Im still confused about whether you're saying Auntblabby talks like a Finn, or that he doesnt talk like a Finn (or talks like Finns used to talk, or what).

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04 Nov 2014, 1:09 pm

Gay rights are perceived as the most significant civil rights issue of this generation. In 20 years the war will be over, the good guys will have won, and the fuss will be over--in the first world anyway.

It does get disproportionate attention at the moment but don't worry, there will be a new annoying thing that gets a lot of attention soon enough. That's the way the news always has been.



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04 Nov 2014, 1:20 pm

Vatnos wrote:
Gay rights are perceived as the most significant civil rights issue of this generation. In 20 years the war will be over, the good guys will have won, and the fuss will be over--in the first world anyway.

It does get disproportionate attention at the moment but don't worry, there will be a new annoying thing that gets a lot of attention soon enough. That's the way the news always has been.


I'm sure back in the fifties and sixties, people might have thought there was too much about blacks wanting their rights on TV. :?


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27 Nov 2014, 3:13 am

Murihiku wrote:
Is it regularly in the news in Scandinavia, or are TV news programmes covering something specific that's happening ATM?

Just found out that the Finnish parliament is scheduled to vote on legalising same-sex marriage this Friday.
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/politics/12828-parliament-gearing-up-for-close-vote-on-marriage-laws.html

I wonder if it is actually making news in Finland. I remember there was quite a big buildup in the NZ media before the country's parliament legalised SSM last year.


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29 Nov 2014, 12:26 am

andrethemoogle wrote:
Pretty much this. I don't see how people can be homophobic either, it makes no sense. Same with racism. We're all human under our skin and our sexual orientation.


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29 Nov 2014, 9:54 pm

Despite whatever is actually news, the networks decide what topics to publicize based on ratings.


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01 Dec 2014, 5:19 pm

If you keep watching you will soon see that they switch to a new topic. Like celebrity facelift or a big divorce case, hetero or homo. After that some big massacre will come on, then bad news about bad breath, or something. So don't worry. It will go away for awhile soon enough.



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03 Dec 2014, 10:21 am

Fnord wrote:
If homosexuality bothers you, then just turn off the telly.


...and correspond by mail instead:

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16 Dec 2014, 11:30 pm

I've read about those stamps online. I can't believe they're in actual circulation.

Also, it seems like Finland's parliament had its first general parliamentary vote last month in favour of legalising same-sex marriage. More work to come before it becomes a reality, but I think it's a step in the right direction.


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16 Dec 2014, 11:33 pm

those hyperintelligent finns are way ahead of the curve.



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16 Dec 2014, 11:49 pm

Yeah, I'm kinda envious of Scandinavian/Nordic countries across the board.

Except for the cold weather. They can keep that. :P


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16 Dec 2014, 11:54 pm

yah, I shoulda been born there. :|