"Woke" Franchises

Robovski

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I don't care that it's about homosexuals; I don't care about rom-coms and I wouldn't be going to see this if it was hetero because it's a rare rom-com I have even the slightest interest in. Whining about it makes me even less inclined to ever watch it. I practically had to be tricked into watching Passengers.
 

DarthOne

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I don't care that it's about homosexuals; I don't care about rom-coms and I wouldn't be going to see this if it was hetero because it's a rare rom-com I have even the slightest interest in. Whining about it makes me even less inclined to ever watch it. I practically had to be tricked into watching Passengers.
Eh. Not a fan of rom-coms in general. The fact that it’s a homosexual rom-com takes any tiny, itty-bitty, sliver of potential interest and brutally murders it with a spiked base-ball bat.

Edit: when I say ‘homosexual’ I mean both ‘gay’ and lesbian.
 
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Jormungandr

The Midgard Wyrm
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Eh. Not a fan of rom-coms in general. The fact that it’s a homosexual rom-com takes any tiny, itty-bitty, sliver of potential interest and brutally murders it with a spiked base-ball bat.
Yep.

I'm not into two dudes kissing and being lovey-dovey.

Hilariously, I bet that if the situation were reversed, people would use the "it's just not their interest/preference" pass when asking why no gays or lesbians watched a typical romcom because the two leads were male and female.
 

Bear Ribs

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Honestly, it's just a baffling decision to make the movie as they did. Romcoms in general aren't superperforming movies, historically they peaked around the late 90s with somewhere around 10% of the box office for the year and have been declining ever since*.


So basically the romcom has no draw these days anyway. Movies in general aren't performing well, but the romcom was hit particularly hard by COVID. Couple that with it being associated strongly with couples, and gay couples being somewhere well under 10% of all couples, and the potential audience and box office take for the movie is simply minuscule. They would need a much better hook or gimmick than just plain "gay couple" to make a romcom a success in the current market.

*If you're wondering why, that's when Tom Hanks was in his romcom phase starring along with Meg Ryan and a few other other big-name actors. They catapulted the romcom to significance briefly before they moved on to other things.
 

Yinko

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Honestly, it's just a baffling decision to make the movie as they did. Romcoms in general aren't super performing movies,
There's been this notion in the public consciousness of the past five-ten years that homosexuality = creativity. You see this with the spike in trans, queer, gay, lesbian original (to a lesser extent fanfics, since those were always high) fictions on sharing sites. A lot of these aren't by authors who are sexually of that persuasion, but rather looking for a way to attract viewership.

Same thing with Rusty Quill, where they decided that two of the main characters of The Magnus Archives were gay for each other near the end, for... no narrative reason? Then in their next series they did the same thing but from the very first ep. Most narrative podcasts seem to come from liberal strongholds, so the association with sexual colonialism is inherent.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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Also googles Velma... :cautious::rolleyes::confused:
Yeah. Pretty typical. Though, to be fair, I've seen people claiming that she was after the red-head since at least the mid 00's, so this is hardly a new idea, merely a new application of it.

It's more the application that's cringe.

People marginalizing anyone atypical as being gay or trans nowadays is standard behavior that they keep finding newer and cringier ways of expressing such idiocy.
 

Yinko

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Oh I was talking from my point of view. Like how I feel making everyone from Lincoln to Joan of Arc Gay based on various atypical character traits is marginalizing their legacy IMHO
That's a good point, looking back on it I've previously bought into that set of narratives with zero proof. Given the prevalence of homosexuals in society there is zero reason to think they the rate of historical figures who are from that sector would be higher than the average of the current period (especially since the current period appears to have a far far far higher rate of homosexuality than any other era likely due to plastics and other hormone influencing chemical compounds).
 

Nemesis

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Hilariously, I bet that if the situation were reversed, people would use the "it's just not their interest/preference" pass when asking why no gays or lesbians watched a typical romcom because the two leads were male and female.

If the situation was reversed, people would still complain: "WoW AnOtHeR MoViE AbOuT A HeTeRo cOuPlE. wHeRe iS ThE RePrEsEnTaTiOn?!?!"
 

ATP

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Except that would mean acknowledging bisexuals exist, whom the regressive left despise for being "fence-sitters".
Then,orgy made by 56 people,one for each ot lgbt fake gender?
But,people would be not interested in love affairs of 56 persons.They need focus on few.
 

Jormungandr

The Midgard Wyrm
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Except that would mean acknowledging bisexuals exist, whom the regressive left despise for being "fence-sitters".
Yep.

Reminds me of a story from a while back about a really attractive college girl.

me said:
Basically, there was this really beautiful woman (IIRC she also did some modelling at least part-time) who was friends with the OP in college: a lot of blokes joined the college courses (namely the high-gear business degree she was going for) she was in, just to try to get to know her in the hopes of dating her.

When it came out she "swung both ways", girls joined the course in hopes of dating her, too.

She ended up meeting a bloke she fell in love with, got serious with him, and ended up marrying him. She dropped out of college, became a housewife, and had 2.5 kids with him.

She did it because it made her happy. She openly said that she felt fulfilled and being a wife/mother was what she wanted.

People quickly turned and shit on her for either dropping out of being a businesswoman (in their eyes she gave up on being a "strong, independent woman/Boss Babe to be a housewife") or because she dated and settled down with a man, ("she's bisexual! Why is she dating a man!" et cetera) instead of being in a relationship with a woman like she had no choice but to.

The vitriol towards her for her life-choices was honestly quite horrifying... I guess I can see why now. She made all the "wrong choices" in various people's eyes.
They typically only acknowledge bisexuality if said bisexual doesn't date or settle down with someone their own gender.

Worse still, most hate directed against bisexual women are from lesbians.
 

King Krávoka

An infection of Your universe.
Well they could always go with the love triangle route. Girl is torn between another girl and a guy.
At the time, I understood that the love triangle from Bee Movie was one man between a woman and another man, but I also assumed that Adam was already Barry's BF, so I left with the impression that it was acceptable but rare for anybody to have one female and one male romantic partner.
 

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