The trailers on YouTube and Facebook really don’t portray these actors as very able or proficient so it’s obvious they were not cast for their talents. Watching a few videos to confirm that I wasn’t being unfairly biased, I really started to get angry.
What I find disturbing is this double standard that the show seems to promote.
Singapore has little tolerance towards homosexuality with media owners being fined whenever any episode promoting a homosexual lifestyle is aired yet MediaCorp gets away with this kind of programming.
I remember years ago when Singapore had it’s first series featuring a gay character. The words used by the authorities monitoring the script-writing was that it’s OK to have a gay character so long as he’s negatively portrayed and he dies in the end. Such narrow-minded, unfair & one-sided portrayals of gay individuals have spurred my outrage and need to speak out. Seeing that TV script-writing in Singapore can produce such gem’s like Polo Boys only saddens me & outrages me more. TV has sunk to new lows in the pursuit of easy ratings as it unashamedly uses abs, dimples and skin to appeal to a group they are not allowed to promote the lives of.
It’s OK to milk us for ratings and revenue. We should be grateful we’re not actively criminalised after all … 377A only criminalise us in spirit and isn’t intended to be actively enforced.
