The accusations of homophobia/transphobia
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Edward_de_Vere — 10 years ago(March 30, 2016 07:34 AM)
Politically correct outrage is always absurd. We've gotten to the point where you can't have racial/religious/sexual "minority" characters who are anything but heroes or victims on screen without some idiot getting offended and protesting. It seems pretty self-evident to a rational person that if someone makes a film with a homosexual serial killer, he isn't claiming that all homosexuals are serial killers, he's simply acknowledging the fact that homosexual serial killers exist. However, with professional victims and protesters, you aren't dealing with rational people.
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Marmadukebagelhole — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 04:00 AM)
We've gotten to the point where you can't have racial/religious/sexual "minority" characters who are anything but heroes or victims on screen without some idiot getting offended and protesting.
Can you give a recent example of a significant outcry over a less than favourably depicted minority that wasn't merited?
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Marmadukebagelhole — 9 years ago(May 18, 2016 01:26 AM)
I don't recall any significant outcry about any of those films, apart from Braveheart's fairytale historical inaccuracy and The Phantome Menace's testing the patience and nerve of people who had grown up with the original trilogy.
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The-Last-Prydonian — 9 years ago(May 18, 2016 09:57 PM)
I don't recall any significant outcry about any of those films, apart from Braveheart's fairytale historical inaccuracy and The Phantome Menace's testing the patience and nerve of people who had grown up with the original trilogy.
Well there was although I find it difficult to believe you couldn't have heard about them. You'd have to have been living in a cave not to. Sections of the English media accused the film of harbouring Anglophobia. The Economist called it "xenophobic" and John Sutherland writing in The Guardian stated that "Braveheart gave full rein to a toxic Anglophobia". In The Times, MacArthur said "the political effects are truly pernicious. Its a xenophobic film." Ian Burrell of The Independent has noted, "The Braveheart phenomenon, a Hollywood-inspired rise in Scottish nationalism, has been linked to a rise in anti-English prejudice". Also this was another film which has accusations of homophobia directed at it for it's depiction Prince Edward as being a effeminate homosexual.
Similar criticism was levelled at
The Patriot
. another film that funnily enough starred Mel Gibson. Funnily enough,
Braveheart
itself face sharped criticism for the way it portrayed
Are both "Braveheart" and "The Patriot" anti-English (yes) or is it just "Braveheart" (no)?
Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom
was heavily for having characters that were said to be racist caricatures. The villainous members of the Trade Federation were portrayed like they were Japanese with Jar Jar Binks a Jamaican Rastafarian.
Seeing racism in Jar Jar is seeing phantom menace
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laslopaniflex — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 12:45 AM)
Also when shortly after the film came out Jeffrey Dahmer, an openly gay cannibal serial killer was caught slightly defeating the argument that gay people should not be portrayed as evil. Like Dennis Nielson before him.
Dahmer was stabbed in prison by inmates, and apparently the guards weren't exactly looking out for his protection. It is worth discussing that would a straight cannibal killer have that much hatred, or would they be more feared/respected by inmates/Florida prison guards??
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Murphed87 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 11:51 AM)
I can recall that there was also backlash against Jodie Foster for appearing in a film that was considered homophobic. She wasn't officially out at the time despite people already knowing, so the LGBT felt like it was wrong for her to appear in the film.
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AnthonySocksss — 3 years ago(December 01, 2022 05:30 AM)
People forget that James Gumb wasn’t actually transsexual or gay, he was a disturbed man who took whatever identity he thought would please him.
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(December 01, 2022 08:15 AM)
I don't give a **** about any of this ****.
That is a battle and a concern for others.
Not for me.
If it makes trans and gays feel or look bad, whatever.
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(December 05, 2022 12:37 PM)
The complaints were from a whinging minority and were unfounded in the context of the entire film.
There was no representation of Buffalo Bill being a homosexual man, only that he was transexual and his pathology was a thousand times worse as Lecter expressed. He may have been gay, but this wasn't mentioned in the film, (haven't read the book), and since Trans is not an outright sexuality and has nothing to do with homosexual men who revel in their maleness and the male form of others, homophobia is far removed from these distorted claims.
As for transphobia, serial killers come in all forms and that is just the representation here in a fictional story. And since Trans is a mental illness, this story just took it to the extreme side of the disorder spectrum.
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