Bay Ridge vs. Lesbians: I Am an Army of One
Thank god (the good, Christian one, not the bad one who helps out Bob Novak) for Bay Ridge, the little red state tucked inside our big blue city. Where else but in unhip New York do people defend morality and think of the children? Take the brave "people" up in arms about bus ads for The L Word.
As The New York Daily News reports:
A bus shelter ad for the cable TV show "The L Word" has Bay Ridge residents seeing red and blue. They want the ad removed immediately.
"There are 12 women with no clothes on," complained Arlene Rutuelo, a lifelong Bay Ridge resident. The mother of three, who owns a deli a few blocks from the bus shelter, said she considered the ad "blatantly sexual."
"I'm offended, and other people are, too," she said. "We are a close-knit community. These are things we try to keep our children from being exposed to."
Amen to that, Arlene! This ad is very sexual. Blatantly so. (It's also similar to this. Blatantly so.)
But, one question for The News: We always thought 'residents' was plural. If so many are outraged, how come no one else from the community is quoted?
