Jaicee said:
I'm a woman and I didn't need one. And pretty much nobody wanted THAT romance arc (the one between Rey and Kylo) to judge by the audible audience reaction in the theater I attended. Mad Max: Fury Road, for example, was a major action film released this last decade that did just fine without specifically heterosexualizing its female lead. I felt like Disney could've just treated Rey the same sort of way if they didn't want the controversy that would inevitably have followed giving her a girlfriend or something. They didn't have to do anything more. They just had to NOT give her a male love interest and I could've at least imagined her as a lesbian. But no. Also, what about Little Women? Unlike The Rise of Skywalker, who's audience has been two-thirds male according to ComScore's exit poll of moviegoing audiences, Little Women's audience has been two-thirds female according to the same poll. The lead female character, Jo, in Greta Gerwig's version of the classic novel, never marries or anything. Audiences loved it, gave it 5 stars out of 5 in that poll, a 92% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes (for those who inexplicably trust that more), all that. Also also, what about Elsa even? Frozen 2 is Disney's other major holiday movie of the season. No romance arc for the lead character, Elsa. Elsa's pretty clearly supposed to be a lesbian character. I mean the whole core plot of the movie is that she's chasing after this mysterious female voice that she describes as her "true love" and even dedicates a whole coming out song to. We're even given a specific character who appears to show interest in her early on. But then, to prevent conservatives from leaving in protest, the voice inexplicably turns out to be that of her deceased mom instead. That way it stays safely about family and everything because Disney. But anyway, my point is that at least they didn't actively DENY the possibility that Elsa is lesbian by giving her a male love interest. They just left her as-is. Why couldn't the same company do the same thing for Rey? Anyway, also predominantly a female audience for this movie. The success of both of these films at the box office, driven by women, shows that women do NOT, in fact, need for their female leads to always fall in romantic love to be satisfied. |
The adding of LGBT stuff by Disney so lazily done it is too obvious just for cookiepoints from the media,if you want to represent diverse groups then you better do it decently.This just feels useless to be thrown into the viewers face looking at it plotwise.
The fact that this so low effort done by the company as Disney stings even more because they just adjust their diversity in order to get more sales from China.
See the Hazbin Hotel animation,that one also has different sexual orientations but it does really tie it in with the story so does not bother.
Last edited by Immersiveunreality - on 12 January 2020
