What are your thoughts about the LGBT community being represented in the media?
I just think that there is a lot of pandering going on.
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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Torsten You know a great example of a piece of media which totally nailed racial diversity in characters in the perfect way? I know it sounds silly, but Codename: Kids Next Door was phenomenal with it. Nigel was British, Kuki was Japanese, Maurice was Jamaican, Wallaby was Australian, Abigail was Afro-American, Fanny was Scottish. And they were all obviously different races by how they looked and their accents. But it wasn't forced. It didn't feel like they were trying to get you to notice the diversity. They didn't go out of their way to point it out and constantly talk about how they were from different parts of the world, but they did sometimes show it a little bit. Like when Kuki would get especially angry, her teeth would appear pointed and her eyes would reflect flames, which is supposed to look like [i]Oni[/i], the Japanese analog of Satan.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@BlueMetalChick never heard of that show but it seems like people who write shows and comics and so on just want to put forced identity politics first and a story second. it comes of as unnatural and forced and cringy as hell.
though I did recently watch a Netflix show called "I am not okay with this" and that had some lgbt stuff in it but it was well written and didn't seem like it was put in there to force anything on anyone but in there because it was a key part of the story.
If it all wasn't so forced, I think people would be so much more accepting but for now it is just embarrassing for the most part
though I did recently watch a Netflix show called "I am not okay with this" and that had some lgbt stuff in it but it was well written and didn't seem like it was put in there to force anything on anyone but in there because it was a key part of the story.
If it all wasn't so forced, I think people would be so much more accepting but for now it is just embarrassing for the most part
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Torsten It was a very tongue-in-cheek satirical cartoon show from the 2000's about a world in which children fight against "adult tyranny" such as being forced to do homework or eat gross-tasting healthy foods. They've formed a worldwide organization called the "Kids Next Door" and utilize what they called "2x4 technology" to create amazing feats of engineering from random household objects or discarded waste. It was quite funny and endearing stuff.