Posted on 12/29/2018 8:47:17 AM PST by EdnaMode
Never necessarily said Hogwarts was Catholic, I just used that as an example of an English boarding school type that couldn’t have used homosexuals as the heads.
As far as “right in the open”, yeah, I don’t know about that. All that spoke to me was that Dumbledore placed a lot of trust in Grindenwald and got burned for it. Obi-Wan also was like that with Anakin as well, heck, Anakin to Palpatine, for that matter, last I checked, both those guys were heterosexual.
You and me both. I actually dislike the practice of rooting for villains and try to avoid that whenever possible, so the fact that Lucas by his deciding to make America into the villains, and worse, make Vietcong members out to be the heroes, and brags about it constantly pretty much forced me to root for the “bad guys” from here on out. Not even Metal Gear did that, and I also was disgusted with Kojima depicting America as the bad guy (not to mention Peace Walker infamously having Miller and Big Boss becoming Che Guevara fans despite the fact that he nearly caused a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis). Heck, not even Linda Woolverton’s revelation that Maleficent was supposed to push the same themes as Beauty and the Beast (which, knowing what THAT film was like, pretty much retroactively tainted Beauty and the Beast as a film, even without the subtle hints that I realized on my own when dealing with several far-left professors in College that left me deeply cynical about higher education as a result), that’s how badly I took that revelation.
Well, okay, maybe not as far as not watch another episode again (I did watch Rogue One, though I rooted for the Empire largely thanks to Lucas’ revelation. In fact, I learned of that from Chris Taylor’s How Star Wars Conquered the Universe. I didn’t watch The Last Jedi or Solo, although that was partly because I was already boycotting Disney thanks to their making LeFou gay, inserting gay scenes in Star vs. The Forces of Evil, and also their mishandling of Jemele Hill at Bob Iger’s request.), but it definitely shook me to my core.
I was 9 when the first Star Wars came out and if any character was a homosexual I guarantee no kid that age would have seen it more than once if for nothing else the fear of your friends calling you gay. Or not seen it at all once word got around it had a homosexual in it.
To me, Star Wars is whatever. I honestly was fine that at one time I had one every three years. I guess I am not obssessed enough to chase after mostly Star Wars movies. Besides the story is over as far as I am concerned.
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