The Mary Sue: In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, which covered everything from working with a green screen to putting more black people in science fiction, Tessa Thompson talked about the development of her character Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok – and one key moment that got left on the cutting room floor.
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LGBTQ deserves more representation on screen. I do agree with the article - sexuality is being suggested on screen more often in movies, however, suggested is not good enough. The millennial generation has introduced the world to a new array of sexuality terminology and everyone deserves to be REPRESENTED on screen - not just suggested. This is just another example of Hollywood being too “stuck” in old habits. The queer community needs to be more accurately and more oftenly represented in television and film. Children need to begin to see that straight isn’t “normal” and that normal is relative. While that message is important for children, it’s also a message that everyone needs to receive and understand. This will create an encouragement of diversity and a more accepting awareness around different sexuallities children might be dealing with. Film and television representation needs to happen.
This is so infuriating. They had such an easy opportunity that include some type of bisexual representation in their movie and just decided it wasn't important enough. LGBTQ+ representation in TV and film is something that is already hard to come by, but bisexual representation is practically non-existent. Freshman year I wrote my final interp paper on bisexual representation in the media and the results were honestly depressing. The reality is many people either view bisexuality as someone experimenting or a stepping stone to being gay. Even characters that are obviously bisexual will rarely self-identify with this term. Did you know that in Orange is the New Black Piper has never been called bisexual onscreen? You know, that character that has had long, committed relationships with both men and women? I'm starting to go on a tangent here but the reality is that even though this seemed like a small moment to that director and editor cutting that moment out of Thor sends a message that including bisexuals means nothing to them.
In a time where society claims to be so aware of the LGBTQ+ society, there is so little that is done to actually expose it to the real world. Implying or suggesting someone’s sexuality is different than straight is incredibly frustrating when tv shows and movies love to showcase heterosexual relationships and make them incredibly clear and prevalent on screen. There is no reason why people should not be able to see some version of themselves represented on screen, especially in regards to identifying on the LGBTQ spectrum. Recent studies have shown that bisexuality is the most widely identified sexuality on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, so why is it the least discussed? If so many people feel they identify that way, why are we neglecting to show even a form of that relationship on screen? LGBTQ+ people, with particular regards to bisexuals as stated in this article, should be represented equally in film and television, rather than just being implied as there.
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