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Originally Posted by Annuga

"It's pandering!"
If you use this argument you can suck a salty sausage at McDonald's because you don't realize the risks. Russia is anti LGBT so the movie is all but guaranteed to flop there and a theatre in Alabama outright BANNED Beauty and the Beast just because there was a gay character. Christ, next they'll be people in the Marvel thread whining how that in Spidey's school there's a lot of ethnical diversity like a real school and call it pandering

Amen, brother!

I also love how straight people think they get to decide what's pandering to gay people and what's not. They have no idea what our lived experiences are, and thus do not get to qualify our (paltry, infrequent) representation.

And as we've both pointed out -- pandering to what end??? So that a movie can alienate large portions of the global audience and risk making significantly less money? If the almighty gay dollar was so important, you'd see all sorts of gay characters in every Marvel, DC, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, etc etc etc movie. But reality check: there have been two "blink and you miss it" gay characters in modern blockbusters, confirmed by one half-second shot in Beauty and the Beast and one campfire scene in Power Rangers where Trini doesn't even say she's gay.

The people making these ludicrous pandering claims are living in some bizarre alternate reality where gay people are apparently so powerful that movies must pander to them in order to be successful. Please, open a portal to this alternate universe and I will gladly join you in this, apparently horrifying, gay dystopia.