Yep. I believe IMO a lot of times the press for these movies taints them because that usually is what tries to make things like sexuality and gender or muh diversity central to these movies when maybe it isn't. So it puts that perception out there before the movie ever comes out. It doesn't help that a lot of times the actors or actresses play into these kind of things as well even when it's not the intention of the film makers.

That said there are also plenty of people involved in making entertainment content explicitly saying they have an agenda.

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Posted by QJenk

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Posted on 3/22/23 at 10:55 am to JasonMason

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That said there are also plenty of people involved in making entertainment content explicitly saying they have an agenda.

Absolutely. I don't disagree with that at all. There's definitely forms of content where they make a gay character front and center, and nearly every other word out of their mouth is, "did you know I'm gay, as a gay man, Hey i'm gay, i'm not attracted to women, only men". For these type of things, the character only exists just for the sole sake of being gay, and the character usually doesn't have much depth beyond their sexuality.

I'm mainly pushing back at the idea that simply having a character be gay in a movie/show, even though that isn't something that's really highlighted, and their character played a bigger role in the movie/show beyond their sexuality. In general, their character was treated the exact same as every other character.

I don't see these 2 instances as being the same. But that could be an unpopular opinion, maybe.

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