Hollywood can also stop with tHe MeSs@g3. Does every action hero have to be Keanu Reeves? No. But I’m not going to believe that the fat gay black woman is going to drop the seven foot body builder.10 I will not accept waif fu unless we’re in comic books or supernatural fiction. Gay folk are maybe 3% of the population, I don’t need them to be 50% of the characters in media. Stop turning every fantasy world into downtown Manhattan. [footnote: See … any fantasy on streaming. Sigh. No. Really.] I can go on.
You know what I saw in the theater this year? A Working Man. Why? Because I like Chuck Dixon and I wanted his film to do well.
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As a bonus: this isn’t the first time Declan has stated his inability to conceive of gay characters existing.
https://declanfinn.substack.com/p/diversity
And? What about them? Seriously, to call LGBTBBQ a minority is a gross exaggeration. They’re not even big enough to be a minority. I’ve seen numbers that suggest they may top off between 1% and 2% of the planetary population. I’d need a cast of nearly a hundred to justify having one. In my books, I’ve had three—but that’s only because I had characters in San Francisco.”
A guy who puts “Vatican Ninjas” in his books can’t conceive a cast full of gay people? Major skill issue there.
At this point, every right-winger who endlessly complains about “the message” in pop culture is someone who I mute and block out automatically. There is no “unified woke agenda”, alright? Society is just getting more progressive and accepting that LGBTQIA+ people simply exist and shouldn’t be hidden away. Likewise, a lot of stuff that you idiots think “suddenly got woke” were already that for several decades by now.
So as long as these haters keep existing, I’m going to keep enjoying the “woke stuff” that they hate for what it actually is. Because in the end, the entire purpose of entertainment is to be enjoyed, not to be nitpicked and hated.
Also, his inanity reminds me of this quote from Hazbin Hotel Season 2: “I’m not homophobic, I just hate gay people!”
♪ 'Cause anyone who finds love in Hell
Song here
Every story is a message of some sort. It’s like politics, choosing not to play is itself a political choice. In ways John Wick is just as unrealistic as a whatever gay character has this guys anxiety up. Real assassins tend to be weird loners, not smooth operators. No Country For Old Men is more realistic in that regards but nobody wants to be Anton Chigurh.
“Gay folk are maybe 3% of the population, I don’t need them to be 50% of the characters in media.”
Well, there’s always adult animation to turn to.
How’s “Helluva Boss” grab ya, Feckless Din…?! [/@Timjer ]
Gay folk are maybe 3% of the population, I don’t need them to be 50% of the characters in media.
Are they really “50% characters in media”? Somehow I doubt the accuracy of that statistic. Then again, though, I don’t keep tabs on that sort of thing, since it doesn’t bother me.
@TheKingOfRhye #242258
From very rough estimate, I’d personally say that even these days LGBTQIA+ people aren’t even 20% of all characters in media. But then again, to bigots like the OP they see ONE gay person on screen for five seconds and its “all of them everywhere all the time!!!!”
If you don't know any LGBTQ around you, it's likely that they don't want to let you know, not that they don't exist. Those around me didn't want me to know either when I was in a cult. Even if 50% (dubious) of popular films included a reference to their existence, it has nothing to do with a claim that 50% of the population would be, that would never happen anyway. But it's plausible for more than 50% of the population to know of some LGBTQ in the real world, unless they either have no society or are blind (like I was).
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