Heteros Rule, Okay ?

A letter that the ST Forum will never publish :

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Dear Sirs,

I refer to the article "Bad Boy Edison Gone Good?" (Sunday Times, 1 March) and to the video clip showing an interview with him on RazorTV on the Straits Times home page.

A week ago, a part of the Oscar acceptance speech of screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was cut from the repeat telecast on MediaCorp TV because he said things that, according to MediaCorp, went against the Media Development Authority's Programme Code which "explicitly disallows content that sympathises with, promotes or normalises such a [homosexual] lifestyle from being broadcast".

Yet, last weekend, a fast-food chain (Carl's Jr) and sportswear label (Adidas) saw it fit to invite Edison Chen to Singapore to promote their wares. And the Straits Times even devoted a long article to an interview with Chen.

Chen is a minor celebrity with little recognisable talent, but had managed to stay on the Hong Kong media's radar screen in the past due to his fortunate genetic inheritance and numerous relationships - rumoured, imagined or confirmed - with HK starlets. I find it hard to accept that, while the Government-controlled media chose to silence Black, an artist with globally-recognised achievements due to his sexual orientation, it gave an utterly undeserved mouthpiece to this promiscuous Lothario whose track record happened to be a heterosexual, and hence acceptable, one.

And do note that no offspring were conceived during his numerous procreation sessions. In other words, he only had sex for fun, and that's not why Singaporeans should engage in intercourse, according to your proxies.

Lastly, Carl's Jr and Addidas - what were you thinking ???