It was more of a thing around Brokeback and Milk. But even then the root of the complaint was A-list actors getting praise and awards for taking gay roles in these big, Oscar bait dramas while gay actors struggle to get any roles in a still very homophobic industry. There are people who have a problem with the…

your friend sounds unfortunately stupid, sorry

this sounds terrible, like the old trope of the sympathetic queer character who must die violently so that straight people can feel energized about a cause

Well done, Rich. Oscar-bait movies about gay experiences are almost always twenty years too late for their own message. Over the last 30 years, prestige studio films with gay central characters, from Torch Song Trilogy to Brokeback Mountain to Carol to Call Me by Your Name have always been period pieces and…

Hmm but in that’s state it’s pedophilia. So do you usually pick and choose the laws to suit your opinion? Convienent. 

well since my comment was about this sites handling of the story, and not about the gender of the sexual predator, I’d say you have no clue what you’re talking about. But thanks for coming and presenting the internet equivalent of yelling at a hole in the ground for making it rain. 

So what you’re saying is, he was asking for it?

First, you’re ignoring the power dynamic between the two. She’s clearly the one in control of the situation and a 17-year old would be in a tough position to defend himself.

Second, and this is important, if you give a minor alcohol and have sex with them, it’s rape. Minors aren’t allowed to drink and plying them with…

And what conspiracy is it that I’m looking for?

sexually assaulting minors isn’t “gnat shit out of pepper”

literally pointing out facts = “conspiracy”

This site also failed to put the standard ‘this article contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault’ warning on their reporting of his allegations that she “push[ed] him... on the bed and initiat[ed] oral and penetrative sex with him” so I think their attitudes and sympathies regarding this case are pretty clear.

Interesting that this site still calls it a “controversy” and yet labels all of the other sexual assault cases as “sexual assault”. It also keeps failing to mention the evidence (photo and texts) that have been released countering her arguments.

I feel like this article did not clear up anything for me, it just made me more confused about the particulars.

Also lol @ the entire thread woven throughout all of this that no intellectual or artistic endeavor could exist without academia. I just left that world and it reminds me of people who think nothing worthwhile exists outside of New York.

lol @ “if you are a woman who thinks your own subjectivity/interiority/heterosexuality can be made into narrative Art it’s most likely because of her”

Seriously. Writing is pretending on paper. Run your draft by some gay buddies if you’re concerned about misrepresentation.

So he can write and put words in the mouths of people of color in the story, but a gay character... whoa, slam on the brakes. Doesn’t make much sense.

They always say that they don’t want to shy away from sexuality, and yet they do. Heterosexuality is never erased.

You are absolutely asking far, far too much.