Just about every major movie release these days will be boycotted by me and by large numbers of normal Americans.
Posted on 02/06/2020 8:40:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Just about every major movie release these days is scrutinized about whether or not it will feature an obvious LGBT character. Ever since the live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast,” and a bit before, Disney has been sprinkling LGBT characters generously across its film properties.
Even the most recent installment of “Star Wars,” (now owned by Disney) features the franchise’s first, albeit strangely placed and obviously forced, same-sex kiss. And, Marvel Studios (also owned by, you guessed it, Disney) has joined the cause, including a gay character in its upcoming movie, “The Eternals.” The studio also recently announced a new film currently in production that will feature its “first ever transgender superhero,” marking what will likely become an endless parade of token “Ts” following in the wake of the “Ls” and “Gs.”
“Token” is the right word for what we are seeing. What most stands out about all these characters is just how tacked-on they feel. Few are essential to the stories being told. In some cases, they even detract or, at least, distract from them. Disney and other studios aren’t making movies about LGBT identity or lifestyle, they’re capitulating to character quotas—virtue signaling to the loud and influential LGBT lobby in order to keep protests down and ticket sales up.
The whole thing is reminiscent of Dave Barry’s satirical history of the U.S., “Dave Barry Slept Here,” in which he ends several chapters with the obligatory closer that “around this time women and minority groups were accomplishing a great many achievements, too.”
In no way am I suggesting that we shouldn’t expect more overt LGBT stories in the future. We certainly can. But in the meantime, the reality is that even a “woke” entertainment titan like Disney is not so much pushing a cultural agenda as they are bowing to it. Nor am I suggesting that their obvious capitulation to these imposed character quotas is ineffective sexual propaganda. As Brett Kunkle and I said in our book “A Practical Guide to Culture,“ ideas are often most powerful not where they are the loudest, but where they are made to just appear normal.
Since the TV show “Will and Grace,” the most commonly advanced message has been that gay people are just like everyone else and just want to live and love in peace. Cultural acceptance of same-sex relationships grew steadily until Obergefell was enshrined into law. From there the demands only grew, from cultural power to legal power. Though many in the “G” and “L” camp were satisfied with “living and loving in peace,” the movement itself was far more ambitious, first demanding affirmation, then conformity and even participation from charities, public employees, bakers, florists, schools, and t-shirt makers.
Now, transgender characters are being introduced into big-budget films as characters who just want to live in peace. If this sounds familiar, it should. The “T,” which has almost nothing in common with the larger acronym and even contradicts the other letters in several places, has assumed enough soft cultural power to demand representation nearly everywhere. The question is: Will it also make the transition to legal power?
The strange tale of J. K. Rowling leaves some doubts. In early December, the multi-billionaire author of “Harry Potter” tweeted her support for a researcher in the U.K. who was fired from her job for saying that male and female are biological realities.
When a judge at an employment tribunal upheld the firing, calling the researcher’s views “transphobic,” and “unworthy of a democratic society,” Rowling tweeted that while she supports loving whichever consenting adult you choose, firing Maya Forstater for insisting that women are real was a bridge too far for her. Despite the intense backlash and calls for boycotts, Rowling still hasn’t retracted the tweet.
As Rod Dreher points out, this raises an interesting question: If all the soft power in that movement can’t move Rowling, can’t other entertainers say “no,” too? Maybe the claims of the transgender movement are just too radical. Maybe the “T” fails culturally where the “L” and the “G” largely succeeded?
We’ll find out soon enough. Until then, token transgender characters at the movies are an ironic reminder that this is a movement still trying to gain acceptance. Which means there’s still time for dissenting voices—even very influential ones—to say “no.”
Originally posted at breakpoint.org
That or a female in a hijab.
I have a library of several thousand titles - enough to last the rest of my life. I don’t need degenerate hollyweird.
I haven’t been in a movie theater since one time in 2010, one time in 2009 and one time in 2008.
Just one more reason to never waste my money on movies.
The LGBTQXYZ folks are represented by about 2-3% in our population. And I believe that the ‘T’ people are less than 1/2 %, in our national population. This pushing of the people with some amount of mental health issues is how Hollyweird normalizes deviant behavior.
Ask a Millennial what the percentage of LGBTQ, etc., people is and they will answer around 25%. It is pushed so virulently they just assume that the percentage must be pretty high. Biased education is what will kill our country. The horse is out of the barn and we have to figure out a way to get the truth out before our culture dies.
[[The horse is out of the barn and we have to figure out a way to get the truth out before our culture dies.]]
You can’t get the truth out anymore- The ‘New Truth’ is that lgbtq makes up a majority of the people, therefore we should cater to their whims-
The left create ‘New Truth’- and drown out actual truth- Science no longer even matters-
Who is doing the "scrutinizing"?
A very small number of "woke" snowflake millennial dipshits with Social Justice Studies degrees and a few homosexuals?
I mean, really, who else would give a shit?
Sooner or later, the backlash is gonna knock a whole lot of these idiots flat on their ass.
We're winning more and more every day...so it's inevitable that this silliness will end up being the downfall of a lot of Hollyweird types, because their movies will not be watched by anyone other than the other wierdos and faggots.
It's a matter of time.
I know I haven't spend one dime of my money on any of the crap.
What little I have watched has been more or less accidental, or was already paid for by someone else.
This stuff will die of it's own accord.
Funny part is, if they'd just shut the hell up and make movies, no one would notice...I mean look at Rock Hudson and a few more that made good movies and their faggotry was not a part of it.
They entertained for financial gain, whatever it took to do so...whereas these mooks nowadays just want it to be all about them and their perverted ways and by God, you had better accept it...or else.
But there is no "else"...I just turn the crap off.
Just about every major movie release these days will be boycotted by me and by large numbers of normal Americans.
It’s almost as if these quotas are being mandated.
I mean...EVERY stinking show and commercial.
Disgusting.
Well, at least she said “partner” instead of “wife”. The appropriation of the terms of traditional marriage, of words that describe a complementary union, grates upon me.
Homosexuals are the power base in Hollywood
I’m sick of it
The irony about Midway
Directed by a true german homo freak known for his perversions
Roland Emmerich makes good movies on occasion
The Patriot
Enemy propaganda. Has been for decades, and not just whatever they are pushing this time.
Virtually every movie. What a coincidence. That’s the same number I don’t watch.
The pendulum will swing as box office revenues decline. There is already a noticeable decrease.
I thought the word “Token” was Tolkien.
But a week or so before, a Canadian woman on Jeopardy said she was on her “honeymoon” with her “wife.”
I figure that’s why homosexuals support laws forcing parents to accede to their confused kids desire to shrink their brains by taking puberty suppression drugs, plus hormones, so much. Plus, since so few trans go through a lopitoffame, so many kids and adults will find themselves in bed with an actual male.
Even Blazing Saddles?
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