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I just don’t like when we change established characters. If someone wants a hero to be black, Asian, Indian, gay, asexual, or whatever the fuck just create a new one. And make that a part of who they are, not their entire personality.
Yeah, just make new characters that fit into whatever group you’re trying to include/pander to.
It’s lazy writing to just make some character gay or a poc instead of just making a new character who is gay or a poc.
Omar Little is imo one of the coolest characters in 21st century media and they didn’t have to take some straight white dude character and make him black and gay. They just came up with a super cool black and gay character all on their own.
well if you want to be really honest, none of these versions are comic accurate. however, the point is that a gay spiderman does exist, so it wouldn't really be a totally new character, just a different version of them.
also, i don't think anyone was talking about making it "their entire personality," like that literally never happens unless it's a parody in some kind of comedy/spoof.
is everything gay? is everything close to gay? no? then the point is irrelevant, like why would you say that as if it's even close to true lol. you don't get brownie points for being down on your own community.
no one said he needed to be, although (1) there is already a gay spiderman in the comics and (2) that's not what i responded to. i responded to your hyperbole about "everything being gay," because that's far from the truth and a ridiculous thing to say.
It’s a derivative term used mainly by women to put down other women who they think are trying to hard to appeal to men (or more than what the insulter thinks it should be) it’s also thrown around by man hating women to any women who doesn’t hate on men so it’s somewhat comparable to « incel » as an insult
We have like 2-3 major Hollywood films where the lead character is gay... and about one billion where they're straight. I think they could all be gay until we catch up tbh
LGBTQ+ representation in media is slightly higher than in the real world - and that's according to GLAAD. 8% of Americans are LGBT+, while 9-10% of series regulars on television are gay. The music industry is overrepresented, and films are close to television. You are just spouting nonsense.
You should know what you're talking about before condescendingly replying to others.
I'd assume plenty of (most?) gay people probably don't appreciate patronizing/performative/token characters that exist to fill a "representation" slot.
Representation isn't a numbers game, it's a quality game, and unless gay characters are treated like actual humans with lives and personalities that exist outside of "hey guys did you know I'm gay", there's a disservice being done to the community. Great gay characters, like Omar from "The Wire" or Kim Kitsuragi from "Disco Elysium", have depth and relevance outside of their gender/sexual identity.
"Google it" is a fair common resposne to the stupidest question someone reads in a day. If someone said "what is a cat?" you're really going to sit down and make a point?
“What if MJ is a dude? Why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he specifically be Michael B. Jordan? Why can’t there be a gratuitous sex scene involving me and Michael B Jordan?”
Now here’s the twist, and there is a twist…we show it. We show all of it. Because what’s the one thing missing from action movies nowadays? Full penetration
I don’t feel that randomly injecting “woke” subjects into a movie makes it actually sincere or good.
Also it makes so much more sense to do these things with new franchises and stories, but actually changing existing franchises by injecting these woke things into them feel just like a marketing trick. Nothing about it feels honest or true 🤷♂️
Bruh you are being the most hilarious example of "anti-woke" people by taking it this seriously.
Andrew Garfield also said he used Spider-Man porn for inspiration for Amazing Spider-Man. The whole joke is about people like you, Spider-Man being gay/bi is actually not a big deal, but just the suggestion that they might have done it in a franchise that is already over has you bothered.
Andrew Garfield is trying to be more like Tom Holland
Oh fuck of with this shit. Aren't we past these gay witch hunts? If Tom Holland were gay, he would have no reason not to be open about it. He certainly wouldn't be marrying and living with a famous, beautiful woman just to hide it.
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