She said "call your ass out." That's a bit more charged than just calling it a weakness in his craft.

It wasn't a question about what's happening only the surface, though. In my original post, I said LGBTQ+ directors tell LGBTQ+ stories. That's not the same as saying LGBTQ+ directors tell stories about LGBTQ+ people. In making his X-Men movies an allegory for the gay experience, Bryan Singer told a gay story even if…

Honestly, have you never heard of auteur theory? What impact do you think a director has on their movie?

Right, I don't understand why a story is not about its subtext, especially if the story is an allegory.

Three men wrote Wonder Woman. A woman being in the director's chair made a big difference. I say the same of Bryan Singer and his X-Men movies. Zack Stentz has explicitly said the movies' gay allegory has a lot to do with Bryan Singer's experiences as a gay man.

That's kind of a weird point because not only is that sort of movie a bit exaggerated, but I would actually want to see that movie. I love digging into a work's references and themes.

He wrote the movie, though. The X-Men have a tradition of standing as an allegory for an oppressed group, and Bryan Singer wisely chose to base anti-mutant sentiment in his movies on homophobia.

The point is that LGBTQ+ people in Hollywood will tell stories that reflect their experiences, even if those stories are often allegories.

You didn't. Elizabeth Banks did.

It counts for adults, too. You don't think there are LGBTQ+ people who identify with the X-Men because they saw their struggle reflected in them?

Allegory is an effective way to get people to see past their biases and other pre-conceived notions and see something from a different perspective.

LGBTQ+ people know what it's like to come out to people who probably don't understand what they're going through, and then far too often deal with the change in how people they care about perceive them.

Since when does allegory not count?

Then call it a weakness in his craft. Stephen King gets criticized for how many of his protagonists are authors from Maine, after all. But Spielberg doesn't have some social responsibility to tell stories he doesn't want to tell.

They're queer allegories.

Has the Wachowskis both coming out as transgender not changed how we look at The Matrix? Do you think it's a coincidence that Bryan Singer bases anti-mutant sentiment in his X-Men movies on homophobia?

People work from what they know. Male directors tell stories about men, female directors tell stories about women, black directors tells black stories, LGBTQ+ directors tell LGBTQ+ stories, and so on. The problem I think is more with a lack of prominent women directing in Hollywood than with any particular director's…

Also, Bachelor in Paradise films in Mexico. So this would be in Mexican authorities' jurisdiction, right? Does Mexico have a different legal definition of rape?

Then they'd get in trouble for the same reason the producers aren't saying "rape."

This entire piece is really disgusting.