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!'
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.
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.
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Never got a gay vibe from the genie he is literally just 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?
To see his children his ex-wife wont let him see.
Okay, but now explain him in The Birdcage.
Not a kids movie and he's acting.
In what movie is he not?
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?
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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.
I just don't think that was the intent with his character.
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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.
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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.
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Completely agree with you there.
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.
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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
what the fuck are you even talking about lol
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