ya he's pretty cool.
He did a letter to his 14 year old self thing on twitter talking about how he promised never to come out and never to be "that sort" of gay guy.
Glad he's just going what he wants.
Queer-coded all the villains for generations
Jesus, I didn't even realize but once you point it out it's obvious. Article on it here. Another one.
Never got a gay vibe from the genie he is literally just Robin Williams who was straight.
Robin Williams who was straight
The guy who had a whole movie where he cross-dressed as an elderly child-care worker isn't queer coded?
In every other movie I can think of and definately ever kids movie he is in he is playing a straight man. One role did not make all his other roles queer coded. Did One Hour photo make ever role he played a stalker?
I don't know if you can really count David Bowie either. I'm not saying the character doesn't have some queer qualities but I think that's because David Bowie himself did and people love him for it. It wasn't like, 'hey look the evil goblin king is kind of gay.' so much as 'hey look it's David Bowie!'
Doesn't matter why he was cast he he still part of a broader pattern of villians being queer coded.
Saying his character is queer coded implies intent. I think people analyzing the goblin king and coming away believing there's some villainization of queerness are simply wrong.
Within any field. The fact that it's called coding implies an attempt to communicate something indirectly. Of course within the context of this post it literally says conservatives queer coded these characters for the purpose of making kids think gays are going to hell, which is what I was responding to.
It's never ever used that way when analyzing media. No one gives a fuck about authorial intent because that's a really boring way to discuss things.
Ok but that's literally what it means. Also authorial intent is interesting and obsessed over in academia.
lesbian coding for ursula or gay coding for scar
I never got either of those things.
Ursula, in the cannon at least, is Triton's ex-wife. Not coded-as-lesbian but coded-as-unfuckable-and-therefore-evil.
Meanwhile, Scar has the Big Incel Energy. He desperately wants to fuck Mufasa's harem, and so murders his brother and nephew in order to clear to way to raping his sister-in-law.
I wouldn’t say she’s lesbian coded, but Ursula is definitely queer coded. She was literally based on the drag queen Divine
I never got either of those things.
Ursula, in the cannon at least, is Triton’s ex-wife. Not coded-as-lesbian but coded-as-unfuckable-and-therefore-evil.
what the fuck are you even talking about lol
one of my favorite roger ebert moments was him getting all pissy that the south park movie was offensive and his gay black guest reviewer saying Satan in it was one of the rare positive portrayals of a gay guy in animated comedy
Nicholson's Joker was supposed to be a cartoonish high ranking hitman-turned-crazy-mob-guy. He was never coded as queer. Just rich.
Yeah no Joker isn't gay, but I know I'm not the only one who got gay vibes off Scar.
Scar is definitely queer coded. In an older timely Elton John kinda way
Minority communities embrace the hell they're told they're going to all their lives and everyone loses their minds.
Thing is, I don't think most people who perpetuated those tropes were conservatives.
Everyone was conservative when it came to gay rights until like a decade ago.
i'm pretty sure these tropes have been around longer than modern conservatives have existed
Well yeah the point is that Hollywood is an arm of the ruling class that determines public sentiment.
