Was literally watching castlevania season 3, and they introduced 3 strong, independent female characters, and I was just sitting there thinking "wait for it. waaaaiiiiiiiit foooooor iiiiiiiiiit."
Lenore, Morana, and Striga. Of the 3 of them, 2 are gay. There's also a fourth female vampire who seems to hate men (because you can't have "empowered" female characters if at least one of them doesn't hate men I guess?) Haven't finish the season yet so who knows, maybe she's also gay
Eh. I don't care that they are lesbians. So far they haven't gone all preachy which is really all I'm looking for these days. They DO seem to have traits that extend beyond this.
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I just dislike how a lot of the time if there's a character that's female and independent/strong/aggressive then most likely she will also be either gay, a man-hater, or extremely preachy. It's a trope I noticed a few years ago and it's not one I've ever been a fan of
I think it's more about shoddily written gay characters. Brooklyn 99 has pretty well written gay characters and it never feels forced because their sexuality isn't a massive focus point and doesn't consume the characters.
And you know what?
I've heard from THREE SEPERATE PEOPLE
"Oh, I wanted to watch that show. I hear it has representation"
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE
YOU GAY SHEEP
STOP GIVING THEM AN EXCUSE TO NOT TRY
another thing, can you tell when someone walking down the street is gay? Do they have to be overly gay to be represented? Why can't a character just be gay without having to be "gay"?
Unpopular opinion. Theo from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was annoying as hell. The character felt poorly written, whiny, and completely unnecessary. The actor had about as many emotions as a turnip. I skipped almost every scene they were in.
Are they unnecessary characters? Or are you saying the characters are necessary to the show, but they shouldn’t be gay? Because that’s close-minded and homophobic since the fact that they are gay bothers you to the point that you need to make a meme about it.
In my case with Theo, they just felt tacked on and unplanned. I’m all for representation, but not just for the sake of it. Like, ooh!!! If we put in LGBT characters we’ll get more money type thing.
Wait, is Theo the trans that was bullied or something?
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But yeah, I take "unnecessary" to mean "unnecessary."
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Being gay, like everything else, doesn't validate a character's existence in a story. It is almost always irrelevant, tbh.
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a bad character is a bad character. A bad plot or subplot is a bad subplot. Subverting an entire storyline to announce how acceptable it is to like having sex with specific people is not good writing. And putting a Lbtq person in a story to fill a statistic is no better than pulling a woman, POC, purple frogs, or anything else.
Often times it leads to:
-so heavy-handed it becomes a distraction, which is the exact OPPOSITE of of what any story/fictional media outlet SHOULD be trying to do
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-writing so lazy the character is a cartoon. And when it comes to that, people literally end up supporting it because they tick some box. The minority IS represented, but at what cost? I can tell you right now, nearly every Lbtq person I've seen is royally offended over Marvel's "new warriors."
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I just dislike how a lot of the time if there's a character that's female and independent/strong/aggressive then most likely she will also be either gay, a man-hater, or extremely preachy. It's a trope I noticed a few years ago and it's not one I've ever been a fan of
I've heard from THREE SEPERATE PEOPLE
"Oh, I wanted to watch that show. I hear it has representation"
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE
YOU GAY SHEEP
STOP GIVING THEM AN EXCUSE TO NOT TRY
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But yeah, I take "unnecessary" to mean "unnecessary."
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Being gay, like everything else, doesn't validate a character's existence in a story. It is almost always irrelevant, tbh.
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a bad character is a bad character. A bad plot or subplot is a bad subplot. Subverting an entire storyline to announce how acceptable it is to like having sex with specific people is not good writing. And putting a Lbtq person in a story to fill a statistic is no better than pulling a woman, POC, purple frogs, or anything else.
-so heavy-handed it becomes a distraction, which is the exact OPPOSITE of of what any story/fictional media outlet SHOULD be trying to do
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-writing so lazy the character is a cartoon. And when it comes to that, people literally end up supporting it because they tick some box. The minority IS represented, but at what cost? I can tell you right now, nearly every Lbtq person I've seen is royally offended over Marvel's "new warriors."