REALLY, DISNEY? FUCK YOU!

[alexseanchai]

There is a spoiler on Facebook for Disney's Beauty and the Beast (2017). To wit: LeFou is explicitly gay.

...You know, Disney, when we said we want queer representation in Disney films?

WE DID NOT MEAN THE FUCKING VILLAINS.

(We have Scar and Ursula and etc for that!)

Comments

[the_rck]

I think it's worse than that-- LeFou isn't even a villain. He's a joke, a comic relief toady.

[niqaeli]

I saw this on Twitter, oddly enough and all I can do is just lay my head down and laugh. It's not a happy laughter. It is a bitter, resigned, angry laugh. It's not that LeFou being gay is INHERENTLY a problem, except for every single cultural contextual piece outside of it and the fact that that's YOUR ONLY POINT OF EXPLICIT QUEER.

How about Bell, bookish young man. Or why not have Beast be a fucking lady? OR HEY YOU COULD EVEN JUST MAKE LUMIERE AND COGSWORTH CANONICAL. THAT ALONE WOULD MAKE US HAPPY.

[longmagpieroads]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeah.

I cannot even.

[alatefeline]

headdeskheaddeskheaddesk

[we_are_spc]

...and then I have a friend of mine when I said some of this that says that she wouldn't want to esplain homosexuality to a five year old )Which I love the girl, but wtf?)

...

And that wasn't even going into the polly stuff (Which makes her extremely awkward and uncomfortable like for serious)

...

(Jay had his own opinions, but I think I might let him speak them tomorrow when he's not so obviously annoyed by all this.

We're palyamorous in-collective (Not physically because no partner who seems interested yet) so this irks him a bit.

-Fallon~

[silveradept]

That's got extra implications when the token queer is on the villain side, and I want to give it a solid Hulk Smash.

[syntaxofthings]

And, like, they don't get points for "look he is gay because we say he is! Look how great we are at queer representation!!!"