Disney Partners With Equalpride To Make more LGBTQ2SIP+ content
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I seem to remember “we just want to be left alone”.
We went from "who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?!" being a joke on a sitcom in the 90's, to it being reality twenty years later.
A baseball player refusing to wear a pride jersey is lambasted as a bigot. (As if the people complaining would wear a crucifix jersey to support Christians.)
Those players aren't trying to make fucking crusty butthole illegal. They simply do not want to wear the pride flag. They'd never even talk about it if they weren't forced to.
This is all heading in a very bad direction.
And don’t forget the hockey player. Incidentally that was one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes
Oh yeah, hockey is even worse than baseball when it comes to this fag shit.
The problem I have found is those who do want to just be left alone (like my bisexual fiancé) moved on with their lives. It is only the ones with chips on their shoulders and/or radical agendas who keep pushing these things, at the expense of others they supposedly side with (there is a reason my fiancé despise the modern LGBT movement).
I forgot where I saw it, maybe on the tweets where the leftists were ranting about a video of high schoolers filmed in 2002 (“EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO WOULD HAVE CALLED ME A FAGGOT!!!”), but wherever it was, someone pointed out that if you reduce an online activist down to their core, you find someone who never got over their high school experience. That seems to be the difference between a gay person trying to get through life, and a gay person screeching about a 20-year-old video on social media and (to the OP point) demanding every character on TV be gay: the former has gotten over any bad shit that happened in high school if any, while the latter has not. Insert “trans” in place of “gay” and it’s probably the same.
It is probably more true than not. You can see it with them being all about their cliques, being obsessed with things like prom, and their usage of what is typically high school tier insults. Hell, I would go so far as to argue their hatred of "White Male Nerds" its for that reason. After all, we were the target of all the bullies in high school for not fitting in, but then everyone got interested in nerd hobbies. What better way to continue the bullying into adulthood than by breaking our favorite things?
I meant to add that in. There are those who do want to be left alone but unfortunately the small amount that wants to keep pushing it out have a ton of power. I personally have zero to little interest in lgbt content but there are those who do so why not make a service specifically for that. But that wouldn’t achieve their goal I guess
I figured. In her case, while she still doesnt dislike LGBT content (she was quite fond of The Owl House, which was heavy on those themes), she does think it gets overused, doesnt like it when them being LGBT is literally the only thing about their character, and she hates it when they retcon characters to be LGBT when they can just be their own thing.
There is a reason that one of her favorite characters in that regard is Veronica from Fallout: New Vegas, where her being a lesbian is brought up, but is a fairly minor part of her character.
Also when there is an agenda to overrepresent a group that becomes annoying. Like blacks and race swapping. But you are right. They would rather check a box than create a well thought out character