• Gloomy
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    -111 months ago

    Calm down.

    You don’t need to go into full attack Mode here. Im happy for you, that you felt repretented. I did not feel the way they handled it felt like good representstion. I’d be happy to see more representstion in general, I just wish it would be embedded into a better told story. If you are cool with the way it’s done: Good for you.

    I am getting slightly tired though of seeing people who aren’t part of the community saying that the representation of us ‘feels forced’. Our mere existence isn’t forced. Moreover, are you really the one who gets to judge this? After people trying to kill us for decades, and then using us for marketing purposes, now y’all wanna judge whether our existence is “forced”?

    This is a beautiful example of heteronormativity at work. You can disagree with me on how and if Discovery did a good job of representing LGBTQI+. topic or not without assuming my sexuality or implying thst I called out for the war on gays, thank you very much.

      • @LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
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        1111 months ago

        I feel like often criticism of how representation is done in media is really just veiled criticism that it’s normalized in the show.

        It’s like representation should only be blatant and pandering (so it can be called woke by the same people) or so far in the background it’s easy to ignore it or not catch it if you’re not who’s being represented.

        I love that it’s just business as usual in these shows and the representation is organic, because that’s real life.

      • Gloomy
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        011 months ago

        I’m fine, thanks for your concern.