Often times in media the only queer representation is a villain.
It’s actually difficult to find characters that are gender non-conforming and good or at least neutral in any media before like 2006. Only having queer people show up as villains subtly hints at your brain that something is wrong with queer people, that you should be wary, that they are bad. This is held out in scientific studies and also applies to bipoc representation in media too.
I’m all for queer and bipoc villains but we also deserve to be heroes.
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“Him”, a villain from the show
Bean was a cool villain. Are they problematic and I’m just not aware at this point?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/DepravedHomosexual
“Villains can’t be queer or it’s bigotry” is the worst take. Gimme badass queer villains. Human stories are human stories.
Nah the take is:
Often times in media the only queer representation is a villain.
It’s actually difficult to find characters that are gender non-conforming and good or at least neutral in any media before like 2006. Only having queer people show up as villains subtly hints at your brain that something is wrong with queer people, that you should be wary, that they are bad. This is held out in scientific studies and also applies to bipoc representation in media too.
I’m all for queer and bipoc villains but we also deserve to be heroes.