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because they have sexual or graphic content-which in and of itself is queerSorry, I don't mean to immediately criticize, but the above statement as written is an opinion and not necessarily a fact. There are ways of portraying sex on film/animation without it being gratuitous, exploitative or "queer." For the less sexually inhibited *which is definitely NOT the same notion as 'perverted'* sex in film can be thoroughly enjoyable for the viewer. For example: Broke Back Mountain. Yes, it was shocking to see two guys going at it so graphically in a non x-rated theater, but it plunged the audience into their world without apology. If the movie had started with two guys noticing the way the moonlight hit each others eyes with a climax of them holding hands and moseying off into the sunset, a great deal of intensity and emotion would have been lost. There would have been no room for their anger and confusion
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You know that I am a literal person. When I used the word queer, I meant it in it's original meaning of "odd" or "strange". And I also meant that, isn't it odd to watch a cartoon where cartoon characters have sex and/or are raped. Especially the rape part. Where a female is raped and conveniently, for the male audience, enjoys being raped so that the male audience can masturbate to said rape scenes. (Or even the consensual sex scenes.)
You know that I am a literal person. When I used the word queer, I meant it in it's original meaning of "odd" or "strange".
I know we already talked about this over the phone, but just for clarification to anyone else who reads these comments, I was arguing against the word as you used it. I didn't think you were implying queer as in 'gay.' I just happened to reference Broke Back Mountain as an example of a proper use of sex on film. I mainly wanted to emphasize that 'sex' and 'rape' are two entirely different concepts. Not only that, if a cartoon is already dealing with adult content *graphic violence, profanity, etc.,* why should it be so odd that they depict sexuality?
I re-read you and realizedgreentea_winterSeptember 2 2008, 05:20:26 UTC
I should have asked first what you literally meant by "which in and of itself is queer" if you meant sex scenes on film/t.v., or the idea of protesting said media because of that type of content. Otherwise, if the latter is true, then I s'pose you can just dismiss by above statement. My bad :D
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I know we already talked about this over the phone, but just for clarification to anyone else who reads these comments, I was arguing against the word as you used it. I didn't think you were implying queer as in 'gay.' I just happened to reference Broke Back Mountain as an example of a proper use of sex on film. I mainly wanted to emphasize that 'sex' and 'rape' are two entirely different concepts. Not only that, if a cartoon is already dealing with adult content *graphic violence, profanity, etc.,* why should it be so odd that they depict sexuality?
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