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1444 points feross | 5 comments | 29 Aug 22 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jurassic ◴[30 Aug 22 02:14 UTC] No.32645906[source]▶
As an LGBTQ person, this makes me very sad. Just look at fandom twitter and you will see how much even a small amount of representation on screen means to people like me. I wish everybody could experience that.
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Banana699 ◴[30 Aug 22 03:42 UTC] No.32646390[source]▶
Why does it matter to you that your sexuality is depicted on screen? Sounds like a bizarre thing to worry about.

And US studios already has you covered for centuries worth of "representation" heavy film and TV, why is the Chinese allowing them important?

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1. carapace ◴[30 Aug 22 16:25 UTC] No.32652211[source]▶
Your question is the answer to itself.
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2. Banana699 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:01 UTC] No.32655017[source]▶
Is this supposed to be a coherent answer?
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3. carapace ◴[31 Aug 22 15:54 UTC] No.32663933[source]▶
Did you see the episode of South Park where the boys go to Afghanistan to return a goat and the boys there tell them that "Half the world hates America." And they're like "Why?", and the kid says "Because you don't realize that half the world hates you!"
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4. Banana699 ◴[31 Aug 22 17:21 UTC] No.32665422{3}[source]▶
No, I didn't. How does this relate to my comment ?
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5. carapace ◴[31 Aug 22 17:42 UTC] No.32665714{4}[source]▶
It's a pretty good episode. Cartman does a whole Bugs Bunny bit with Osama Bin Ladin as Elmer Fudd. Anyway, I was trying to illustrate what I meant in my original comment.

You asked "Why does it matter to you that your sexuality is depicted on screen? Sounds like a bizarre thing to worry about."

The fact that you find it a bizarre thing to worry about could be seen as indicating that you're unfamiliar with the lives of LGBTQ people, which condition would presumably be improved by seeing more depictions of their lives in mass media.