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I dunno... one reason the anti-queer rethoric is so prevalent is because in much media, but mostly comics, theater and movies, there is a tradition of queer-coded-evilness, and often it reads as evil-queerness. Mainly due to the american "code for media decency" preventing potraying queer people in positive light for many years.
This came to associate queerness with perversion and malice and all the prejudice some people still associate gay people with today. And I don't know if media-creators should play into that trope again.
I mean yes, Scar, Jafar and Ursula were resplendend and fascinating in their fabulous evilness. Sophisticated, oozing sexuality, theatrical and intelligent. And that makes them fascinating, wonderful characters but damn... I'm just so fed up with the media vilifying queer- and trans-coding.
And not only that, vilifying intelligence, the dramatic, sexual confidence and sophistication... or just british accents. The 90s Disneys movies were really really bad about all that.
Okay but weve all seen what makes these people cheer, so I dont think i cpuld sleep at night if they didnt think i was evil.
Thankfully it was mainly childrens shows that do this. Grown-up movies were busy doing it to Arabs instead.
Except Bond movies or some Hitchcock's and plenty of others. Queer coding villains is not only cartoon thing. But I don't despite this. I even like, it's ok as long as we can also have gay protagonists (can we?)
Every movie that had Alan Rickman in it ever... it's just more subtle when it's not a cartoon.