Kurt’s back! Santana’s despicable plots are actually still kind of cool (and could they make Krofsky a better person sometime soon?)! Awesome songs! Did I mention that Kurt is back? I loved nearly everything about the “Born This Way” episode of Glee last week. From the Gaga to the t-shirts, the Barbara Streisand flash mob to Rachel’s acceptance of herself (heck, nearly everyone’s acceptance of his or herself), it was epic glee. The only thing I missed was the bumblebee music from the first season that often served as the slushie soundtrack.

I did have one problem—the whole fat girls wanting to vote for Lauren, then Quinn, because she “overcame,” as if being fat was something to overcome, like cancer. I’ll continue rooting for Lauren, because like she says, she keeps it real, and she’s pretty much awesome, unlike Quinn, who might have many redeemable characteristics but ultimately has lied and cheated quite a bit in her time. Doesn’t lying to the not-father of your child for nearly nine months count for something, anyway? (Not to mention her cheating on just about all of her boyfriends, being a complete bitch to Rachel (and other Glee girls), and plenty of other high-horse crap.)

So I figured that might be the talk of the town the next day. I’m getting into the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement and I figured I’d see this whole “overcoming” issue online the next day.

I didn’t, however, expect to find so much hate directed at the “gayness” of the show—particularly when we’ve had so many suicides attempted and executed by gay teens lately. If anything, I thought that people might embrace the show for these reasons.

How wrong I was. Fox News—of course if anyone is at the bottom of this, it’s Fox “News”—questioned whether or not Glee is “too gay” following the episode. Then came a full six minutes of “debate” about whether or not such “gay television” could negatively impact teens, and like a statement released by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said, the entire segment was outrageous. Why indeed do we continue to have these so-called debates in the first place?

Gay characters were referred to as “product placement,” akin to placing sodas in films and making the rest of the audience “thirsty for them.” Wow, I’d better never watch another film in my life, just in case I get thirsty for something I see in it.

This is laughable, since I’d say it’s hockey moms we see as product placement the most these days. In fact, we don’t see enough gay characters; until we have regular commercials and TV shows that include gay people and couples, it won’t even be close to adequate representation—let alone product placement! The “opponent” of the issue went on to say that being gay carries “enormous psychological and physical risk,” and equated the so-called propaganda to drug use.

Many are calling for Fox to apologize for this ridiculousness, myself included. If you’d like to contact them about the segment, please click here.