{"id":93251,"date":"2016-07-09T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/09\/greencarnations-samwilson-okay-like-im-not\/"},"modified":"2016-07-09T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:08:22","slug":"greencarnations-samwilson-okay-like-im-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/09\/greencarnations-samwilson-okay-like-im-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

greencarnations<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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samwilson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Okay like I\u2019m not gonna lie.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really upsetting to me that George Takei is openly against Sulu being gay in Star Trek Beyond.<\/p>\n

Like I respect he\u2019s allowed to have opinions on a character he once played but I 10000% agree with Pegg that introducing a new character and making them gay ran the very likely risk of them becoming The Token Gay. It takes a lot of time to establish a new character and if you introduce a character and the first thing you know about them is that they\u2019re The Gay One then that\u2019s all the average audience is gonna absorb about them. They\u2019re the Gay Character. That\u2019s it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But when you reveal that a long standing, established character, with a long history, also happens to be gay, like that\u2019s a big fucking deal.<\/p>\n

And not only that but this great, well loved character is a POC, and not only is he gay but he\u2019s married, with a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That makes a statement. That sends an important message to the audience. Queer people are everywhere. They\u2019re your barista and your taxi driver and your doctor and your lawyer and your neighbor and your friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now they\u2019re the senior helmsman of the USS Enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I mean, I think a lot of it comes from George Takei being from a different generation. No, really, it applies to gay men too. I run into a lot of older gay male Sherlockians, for instance, who don\u2019t get shipping. They\u2019re perfectly happy with that \u201cclose friendship\u201d thing. It\u2019s a very important relationship to them, but they don\u2019t always really get why it would be important for the relationship to be explicitly romantic. The desire for media representation is very generational.<\/p>\n

Also, I think Takei is also looking at it like this: if Sulu is gay, and was never shown as being so in TOS, than Takei was playing a closeted character, which he\u2019s not happy about.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I\u2019m thinking it through, anyways.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s what George said, that he wouldn\u2019t have wanted to play a closeted character.<\/p>\n

Personally I think we could just say Sulu is bi and cover both bases…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

greencarnations: samwilson: Okay like I\u2019m not gonna lie. It\u2019s really upsetting to me that George Takei is openly against Sulu being gay in Star Trek Beyond. Like I respect he\u2019s allowed to have opinions on a character he once played but I 10000% agree with Pegg that introducing a new character and making them gay … <\/p>\n

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