Good evening Alex Star Nation. Something that is something that is being brought up a lot in this lesbian space, like this princess conversation that I've been meeting to talk about for a while is that whenever anybody is portrayed in media who isn't a straight white male, people immediately go to seeing them as representation. And that's good. That's fine. I I like that people are feeling as if they're represented by, um, characters put into pieces of media. But where my problem lies is whenever people think that since somebody within a movie or story or movie story is being told by a person of color or, you know, somebody part of the LGBTQ community, the characters that they have in that story, not straight white men, they have to be the pinnacle or the best representation of the community. And I absolutely absolutely hate that reasoning. That narrative, that way of thought so bad. And the reason why I hate that like narrative that way of thought so bad is because whenever there is a minority character in a piece of media and their character isn't like a pinnacle or the best representation of the community because they are a character within that is supposed to be nuanced and not two dimensional, especially if they have flaws, especially if they are playing into negative stereotypes. People will get into, you know, comment sections, they'll make videos and be like, they aren't representing the community correctly. And they'll even go as far as to say that the reason why people are racist or homophobic or don't like certain members of this community is because the way that the media portrays them. When in reality, the way that minorities being portrayed in media isn't turning people into bigots. It is bigots who already don't like people of those, you know, marginalized communities, pointing towards certain aspects of media and this is why I don't like them. Me being, you know, socially politically aware, older and being somebody who likes to analyze media, I can understand that no matter that how marginalized groups are portrayed in media, bigots are going to and every excuse to continue their hate and their bigotry. And I can come to the logical conclusion that the reason that these people are bigoted isn't because, you know, they saw a shitty movie made by lesbians, like lesbians, because this movie was shitty and made by lesbians, they already don't like lesbians. They found a shitty movie made about lesbians, um, and then they're using that to back up their hatred. And I can see the comments are like, oh, so then why are we giving them more reasons to hate on us? We are not giving them more reasons to hate on us. They would hate on us no matter what. You've already seen people skew statistics and take certain things out of context, even if they aren't true. People just make up straight up lies to hate on marginalized communities. We gotta quickly move away from the idea that we have to portray marginalized communities in the best light when it comes to media and storytelling. Because if we don't give, you know, bigots more ammo to hate on our communities, when in reality, marginalized people can be portrayed in the best light in like stories, media, and they will still try and find any way to spin it to continue their bigotry. It's before. People be like, Oh my gosh, so in this movie, the the the man is the hero and the white man is the villain. And so that they're trying to, you know, race, make white people seem bad. Media, y'all. It's not the stupid and evil. And they will take anything and skew it. Way to feel righteous in their, um, nonsensical hatred of, you know, humans. We've got to stop playing into respectability politics. Why are you trying to look good for your oppressors? Your oppressors are gonna hate you. No matter what you do. So you might as well have fun. Evil. Ass and make shitty movies. Like I don't understand why we're still playing into the narrative in the big 26. And the big 26.
