Hey there, it’s me. This is just me sharing my opinion on the new special since it panders towards me in a sense.
I agree with every point the special is making; not every movie needs to be this big preach.
Like, as a gay person, I’m tired of Disney, HBO, Netflix, all these big companies that make a blank state out of great material.
Of course there is great gay shows - (The Owl House, Atypical mm.) but those have something else to keep you watching where the gay is front and centre.
Let me use The Owl House as an example. A teenage girl is thrown into a world of demons and must traverse her way back to the human realm.
Cool plot point, right? However by Season 1 episode 16 “Enchanting Grom Fright” it’s made clear that there is going to be a lesbian relationship between the human girl and a demon girl name Amity.
However, they address this in Season 2, Episode 8 “Knock knock knockin on hooty’s door” where Amity and the human girl -Luz get together.
And that’s the last time that it was brought up and the show continued like normal, just with them being in a relationship
I’m getting sidetracked, my point is - there can be homosexuality and social issues in a show with out it “pandering”.
And it also feels like by Disney that they’re trying to “make up” for past homophobia so now they’re really just pushing gayness on to everything they can and use it as a sort of shield, if that makes sense.
Anyway, this is just one gay person’s opinion, feel free to comment your own - straight or not. If you read all this - thank you.
I agree about the lazy pandering, but there are so many people out there who really need to take Cartman's words to heart -- it's just as lazy to hate everything woke on principle. It's very frustrating that now, any time we do something gay with a character who wasn't presented as unambiguously and explicitly flamingly homosexual in their first appearance, it's going to be accused of pandering. Tim Drake (a.k.a. one of Batman's "Robins") is a sixteen year old boy who recently came out as bi. Lots of people don't come out of the closet before age 16 -- there's nothing weird about a character coming out of the closet at any age, but there's especially nothing weird about a character not coming out of the closet until their teen years. But nobody seems willing to accept that Tim likes dudes too. They have to scream and cry about how it's "pandering." Which is just silly. Tim is allowed to kiss boys.
Fr,a movie can be “woke” and not be pandering and have a compelling MC who happens to be gay, how’d have thought? A gay character doesn’t automatically make a movie “woke” or “pandering” IF THEY ACTUALLY WRITE THEIR CHARACTERS PROPERLY