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LGBT characters in GI Joe
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10-11-2020, 01:17 PM
MFJayman
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Agreed.
Now that we have been talking about this subject for a day or two, I have been personally questioning what is worse for a kid to be exposed to: sanitized war or sanitized relationships.
No cartoon is going to show (at least kids cartoons) same sex or opposite sex physical relations (i.e. actually showing anyone getting it on), so what then is harmful about (I’m making this next scenario up) Lady Jaye rescuing her girlfriend Jinx from Cobra? How this that any different than showing Duke rescuing his girlfriend Scarlett? It could be seen that some people on this forum are ok with showing the Duke/Scarlett scenario, but not the LJ/Jinx scenario. Given that no sex or kissing will ever be shown whether it’s same or opposite, what’s the harm?
I hear people commenting that nothing should be sexualized, but it’s already sexualized towards opposite sex couples. It’s light weight sexualization, but it’s still sexualization.
Lol per your example, I think the main thing people would freak out about would be Lady Jaye not being into Flint (including me, as that is one of my fav relationships in Joe!!)
One of my favorite things in GI Joe media was the relationships. That includes the buddy-system used in the cartoon, such as the Alpine Bazooka Quick Kick buddy team. The romantic pairings, like Lady Jaye and Flint, was just a buddy team, with the added spice of implied romance. Did they even ever kiss, or outright say, "that's my boyfriend, Flint"? A same-sex relationship should be handled similarly, perhaps with even more subtlety.
Subtlety is really the key to all this. Also, not shoving it into everyone's face and making it into a political statement etc. is key. You know, be tasteful. I, like many others here (probably), fall into the camp of being very quickly annoyed, when this sort of thing is overdone or done for, like I said, an obvious socio-political agenda. You know what I mean, I'm sure.
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