re: The “someone has to be gay” rule hits another show: (Spoilers?)

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This isn't an actual thing
bullshite

There is also a "someone has to be black" rule -- an NBC memo saying this was made public a few

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There was a podcast with Joe Rogan and Jim Gaffigan where they talk about writers trying to sell scripts or shows to TV studios...

And they'll be like, this is about an Irish Family in Ireland in 1850 and the first question out of the studio execs mouths is..."but where's the diversity?"

"It's a show about 1850's Ireland."

"Yeah but where's the diversity in this script?"

The point was in the podcast, that Hollywood wants it in the show, no matter the time period, no matter the place.

He said, it's the first thing they ask...as if that's all they care about. That's the entrance exam...your script is going nowhere unless it shows all the colors of the rainbow.

And he was talking about NBC, ABC, CBS...BBC tends not to give a frick with their love of period pieces.

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And there are lesbians in the world.

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Yeah, according to TV, about 30% of all women are lesbians. Another 60% are mudsharks.

Many actors and writers are queers -- far out of proportion to their numbers in the general pop.

Blacks are 13% of the gen pop and we can't escape them in movies and TV. Yet per Wiki Hispanics are 18% but are almost invisible in Hollywood -- unless it's illegal alien propaganda.

As a gay man even I'm finding it beyond annoying. And God forbid Mr. we gotta go further gay stereotype Ryan Murphy is involved in any damn thing..he's gonna put in gay sex every chance he gets...it's like.. ENOUGH already douche bag

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They should be in around 4.5% of television and movies.

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By that logic, there are way to many murderers portrayed on tv and in movies. Plus that’s not how the 4.5% works. It would be 4.5% of all characters, not 4.5% of movies/tv

I understand what you’re trying to say, but wanting to count and crunch numbers to make sure all things are things are portrayed relatively equal to real life is absurd

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By that logic, there are way to many murderers portrayed on tv and in movies. Plus that’s not how the 4.5% works. It would be 4.5% of all characters, not 4.5% of movies/tv

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Even then it's too limiting. It's not really about how much of the population is gay, it's more about how much of the population is affected by LGBT people. Let's take 4.5% and look at that a little bit.... Another poster said that's 15 million (I'm accepting his math without checking), each of those 15 million has a mother and a father so that's an extra 30 million people, 4 grandparents is another 60 million. That's a grand total of 105 million people who are either gay or know someone who is. That's roughly 1/3 the population of America. Granted, not everyone has a full set of parents and grandparents, but I didn't include brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends or coworkers so I figure that's a good number for a rough estimate. My point really is that there are more people affected by homosexuality than most people are admitting when they throw out the argument about the "only" 4.5%.

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there is a website that actually lays out if a movie is woke or not, and rates on how woke it is.

The name of the site is Mediaversity Reviews, and it grades films based on LGBTQ representation, racial representation, gender representation, and religious (which actually translates into Islamic representation).

The curve they grade the films on is A+ through F, and basically only woke films get good grades. The “How We Grade” page breaks it all down, with A+ meaning the movie is “Woke AF” while F means that they don’t think that the movie should have been greenlit.

As pointed out by Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers, they hate films that celebrate masculinity, heterosexuality, and good storytelling if it doesn’t promote the core tenets of Left-wing agitprop.

Yes, even films like Shaft ended up with an ‘F’ rating because even though the cast is majority black, it contained the promotion of guns, promotion of women as sex objects, and it basically ridiculed today’s soy boy culture.

In the review they write…

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The simple storyline, of reuniting father with son for hijinks and growing pains, suffers under the weight of a terrible script filled with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and homophobia. Samuel L. Jackson plays a parody of himself, ratcheting up the amount of expletives used by the minute. […]

“At every turn, the script elevates the men’s quest to achieve peak masculinity in lieu of anything that could be construed as remotely “feminine”. Shaft repeatedly decries JJ’s “flaws” as the result of “his momma’s shite.” From JJ’s healthy diet, respect toward women, avoidance of firearms, and even to the way he dresses, Shaft derides the way a female authority figure has made his son ‘effeminate’.

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You would think that their harsh criticisms of the plot and character development would have centered around a more implausible facet: a black man reuniting with his son. Yet for some reason that seemed to duly escape the reviewer’s attention.

However, films like the very long and very boring Captain Marvel managed a B+ for its diversity and female empowerment.

Films like Avengers: Endgame and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood both ended up with a C-.

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You know there are gay people in real life, right?

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You know there are gay people in real life, right?

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You know it isn't a 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 incidence, though, right?

Maybe 1 in 14, 1 in 15.

And, again, typically the character being gay is about as significant as other superficial characteristic (being tall, hair color, etc.) Kind of like other intersectionalist inclusions, they drape it on characters like costumes.

It would be another analysis if it was significant to character development or to advance the plot. Otherwise, left-handedness is more prevalent in society than being gay.

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they hate films that celebrate masculinity, heterosexuality, and good storytelling

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Yes, even films like Shaft ended up with an ‘F’ 

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Is Shaft your example of good storytelling?

And there's a website for everything. How is this relevant?