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

[niqaeli]

LIKE. THIS WASN'T HARD. Lumiere and Cogsworth is not a fucking LEAP for *ANYONE* that is aware things other than heterosexuality exist to make. Not personally actually sure how you read the original animated without assuming something there, but also I am SO FAR FROM THE FIRST PERSON TO NOTICE THIS. Even some of the fucking straight people have noticed the potential!

But, no. It's the fucking comic relief villain. Not even the main villain! NOPE. Joke character villain. Are you fuckin' kidding me.

[alexseanchai]

LUMIERE AND BABETTE THOUGH. Because bisexuality doesn't exist, apparently, and neither do love triangles or serial monogamy, never mind poly.

[niqaeli]

Obviously Lumiere is bi! And bi and poly exist. But like. I would honestly have been... well, okay, not totally OK with them collapsing some various implicit shit, but at least at peace with it, if it gave us canonical Lumiere and Cogsworth.

But no. No, we're gonna go with the lazy, not even a tiny bit revolutionary option of textualising queer coding. SURE. WHY NOT. Why should anyone hope for something more than scraping the absplute fuckcing bottom of the barrel re: representation. *BITTER LAUGHTER HERE*

[alexseanchai]

ACCURATE.

Still waving the "canon queer Elsa" flag for Frozen 2, but, well.

[syntaxofthings]

Well, the most repulsive part is that they keep saying this is revolutionary when it is not. Because we always had the implicitly queer Lumiere and Cogsworth, and this character is still fairly implicitly queer from what I've heard. (He doesn't do anything but swoon over the other man I think??)

[alexseanchai]

That sounds accurate, yeah.