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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
Yeah but if they make a shitty movie they don't make any money.
Marketing 101: Aim for everyone without risking isolation. Trying to fit in a character for everyone like ticking off a check list isn't inclusion, it's pandering and horrible for any story. If anything its an insult to any minority demographic unless it is done well or naturally.
You can make the argument that there are not enough strong gay characters in movies. I would even agree with you. But that is on movie producers not accepting scripts for these stories. You don't fix that by making Rick Blaine (humphrey bogart) in Casablanca gay for some reason. Does making Daniel Larusso in Cobra Kai bissexual help the story along? No, they didn't do that because it would be a ridiculous distraction from an already established character.
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We'll said however:
A) You haven't seen the movie - you don't know if it's shitty
B) You're attributing a Gay character as being politically correct, instead of just representing part of the real world we live in, that shows your bias. In your mind there can never be a character that's Gay without it being politically correct.
C) A character who's sexuality was never established, now being established, isn't retroactively doing something politically correct, it's expanding a character in many ways, one of which happens to be their sexuality.
This kind of thing doesn't matter to me personally. I've never been a flag waving homosexual I just live my life by example I don't fit into the Gay society because I'm a single parent, I don't fit into straight society because I'm Gay pornographer with a kid, and that's fine with me. I've never forced my sexuality on people and I don't think it's right that people do that or that they force their ethnicity on people Etc.