The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don’t like are “problematic” that I’ve ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister “like siblings”.
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
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Never seen/read GOT, be right back, gotta look something up.
I STEPPED OUTSIDE OF THE FRONT DOOR OF MY OWN HOME ONLY TO FIND THE DEER THAT TRIED TO KICK MY ASS LAST YEAR STANDING RIGHT THERE IN MY FRONT YARD. BOLD AS BRASS.
AM I NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE
for those of you who were not here last year: this deer is the most obnoxious, unnatural red-orange color I’ve ever seen, only appears when it’s raining, and once chased me a quarter mile through the woods. her name is Hot Cheeto Hatred and she is my nemesis
I want to live in the world that other people seem to be living in, where we get to critique queer media from a perspective of “homophobia and censorship? What homophobia and censorship? What’s a Hays Code? No, I don’t know anything about lesbian pulps or Oscar Wilde’s sodomy trial, what’s a sodomy trial? No, any problematic aspects or things that I don’t like about a piece of queer rep are 100% objective and entirely the fault of the creator! What’s a ‘cultural and historical context,’ stop derailing!”
TBH I would KILL to see the S&P notes given to a few pieces of recent queer media, because I suspect they would shut people up real goddamn fast. Tired of watching queer people tear down queer television writers instead of, y'know. The homophobic networks censoring people.
Example: I see way more people in the Dragon Prince fandom talking shit about the Queens of Duren than I see asking the question, “how much pushback did Netflix give over it? What’s the context? This was in production right around the time Nate Stevenson had to fight for She-Ra.”
Dead queers are sometimes the only way we get to be on TV, even in modern day. I wish more people were looking at “problematic” queer rep and asking, “who censored this? Why did it happen this way?” instead of ripping apart the (often queer) artists.
Our first questions when analyzing queer media should always be, “When was this made, and who had the power to censor it? What were the common ways for queer artists at that time to code and flag in order to slip under the radar?”
