ruebelly replied to your post: wait, when did gneil say "he draws the line at...
I don’t know how to feel, because like Frank Oz being adamant that Bert and Ernie are just friends, most of your audience loves these characters as a ship and you’re given the opportunity to just say yes and uplift an entire community, but your friendship is more important than that, it feels a bit like internalized homophobia to me. Maybe?
Exactly. There’s a certain point where your book or movie or comic or cartoon stops being entirely just about YOU the person who created it and more a cultural or personal thing for a lot of people. Like people who take the time to learn elvish or klingon are just as valid as people who are queer themselves and read two characters who may not have been INTENDED to be gay but all signs point to gay town. And to outright deny it as even being a possibility its still deeply rooted in homophobia. Obviously not the same homophobia as wanting to take the rights away or kill gay people but its still there.
This isn’t a whole.....hahaha fuck that guy he’s a bad person. Because I don’t think he is. I think he’s taking credit where he never intended credit to be do otherwise he would have changed the text enough to give people what they wanted ENTIRELY.
More people need to take the Mark Hamill approach when he was asked if Luke could be gay he was like “Why would I take this away from that person who that means so much to? If Luke is gay to you then he is gay”
