[ SECRET POST #5684 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5684 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Secret OP here! First of all: thanks for making my secret (though the aesthetic feels weird at best, lol, no I am not a chinationalist freak).

My point was exactly this: it's easy to find ways to criticize China particularly if you are a nationalist US entity or person and hate it for other reasons. But I don't see how China has been influencing the amount of LGBTQIAA+ content in recent blockbusters at all - if anything there has been more of it than ever ...

Is China particularly LGBTQIAA+ positive? No. But is it the Yemen or any other country (of which there are dozens) based on religious fundamentalism that is very anti-LGBTQIAA+ people? No. The presence of such contents in blockbusters aimed at kids read as a threat to THOSE countries for obvious reasons. China could not care less - if they don't like it, they will censor (which is as easy as removing 2 minutes of movie) and shrug tfa ... Which they have been doing for a while anyway. Which, incidentally, the US did enough of in the past too.

Sure China has a lot of people so it is a big market. But in terms of revenue and individual economic power surely NA and EU still matter more. So Hollywood has more reasons to try to please these rich markets (which also have fair shares of conservatives / religious fanatics) but of course it'd be better to not alienate every other market either since the purpose of a blockbuster is to sell heavily.

The end result are movies like Lightyear that briefly mention a gay marriage now that it is legal in these (NA/most of EU) countries, which is enough to bring in that pink money and make Disney seem LGBTQIAA+ positive to these markets, but can be easily censored (just by redubbing/cutting 1-2 minutes of movie) in countries where censorship of LGBTQIAA+ issues is usual. And global backlash delivers a clear message: this is the perfect(ly calculated) amount, people who want more or less than that are just the extremists.

Setting personal feelings on this subject aside, in short: for people to place the blame on China for lack of LGBTQIAA+ content in blockbuster Hollywood movies IMO is either ill intentioned or silly.

Also: fuck Disney :)