[ SECRET POST #4451 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4451 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The MCU is ready for a gay superhero, yes. That doesn't matter.

The Chinese government does not allow gay characters in movies. Any movie with gay characters cannot be released in China. They also disallow ghosts, which is why Ghostbusters wasn't released in China.

So as long as China's a huge market segment for superhero movies, which it is, nobody will be gay, the Ancient One won't be Tibetan, and they'll insist on extra footage in stuff like Iron Man 3, all about how much better China is.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh hi China hateboner!anon

[(Anonymous)]

Then they need to actually admit that's the case rather than play this game of having big-name producer, director, or actor talk up how they're ready to do it on the publicity circuit.

[fishnchips]

"BECAUSE CHINA" isn't a great excuse though. I mean, yes, Chinese censorship is ridiculously shitty, but they do release movies with gay characters, provided they can cut out all the gay parts (like they did just recently in Bohemian Rhapsody). And that would still really suck on the Chinese side of things but as long as the creators made it so that it can be edited out, they could absolutely make a character gay. But they won't because they don't actually want to - "Oh drat, them evil, homophobic Chinese people are to blame, we would totally include all the gay if it wasn't for them boohoo" is just a lazy shifting if blame and a very convenient excuse.

[(Anonymous)]

What crosses the line to "queerbaiting" IMO are the pre-release publicity statements. If Disney isn't going to follow through, why are Gunn, Kasdan, and Alonso given the liberty to talk about LGBT representation? (And yes, Disney does dictate some of the terms of what people contracted to them can say in publicity interviews.)

[fishnchips]

Yeah, that's the annoying part and it's absolutely queerbaiting. Maybe not intentional on the creators parts every time though.
See, I do think some of the creators would actually not mind including gay characters but the company on the whole doesn't want to do it, not really anyway. So by giving their people the liberty to talk about it it's basically virtue signalling which also ties in with the whole "we totally want to but China" thing. Maybe not intentional on the creators' side, 100 % intentional on the company side.