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"Netflix has the gay": Fixing LGBT+ characters without any character traits in media
submitted 3 years ago by OffAndSphere from self.LGBT
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[–]holy_goat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago* (1 child)
Memes are how people voice their opinions in a fun way nowadays. It's kind of dumb to complain about people making memes. LGBT characters have been poorly written tokens for literally decades at this point, meming about it is a way of coping. I don't think anyways expects the low budget trash netflix constantly puts out to change.
Also, I feel like writing good gay characters involves, to some degree, knowing what it's like to be gay? And like... there are subtleties in writing a character who is gay. If you just take any random character and try to make them gay its going to come off as token-y. If you don't have many gay friends or aren't gay it may be difficult to write a gay character that isn't just a dumb comic relief stereotype. It's already hard to get the right mixture unless you have gay writers writing for a gay audience. And then add in that most audiences are thinking, "I am not the greatest fan of LGBT+ stuff", there is not an incentive to write fleshed out gay characters that will make them uncomfortable.
I can understand why nobody is interacting with your post on reddit because it seems a bit naive to think that this is going to change.
[–]OffAndSphere[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Ah, I see. Thanks for your opinion.
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[–]holy_goat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
[–]OffAndSphere[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - (0 children)