(Watch your volume on this one.)

[This commentary pertains to a video that I have deleted from the channel, from the now-disgraced plaigarist James Somerton. I'm keeping this commentary here because it's still relevant. Even more so now in 2025...]

Seriously, fuck Disney for pulling this kinda wishy-washy shit. The media in general is long overdue for having accurate, positive, and unambiguous queer representation. Preferably by actors, actresses, actrites, and actroids who consistently treat others with the dignity they wish to receive.

As a queer kid who came of age in the late nineties and early aughts, I can personally testify as to how... goddamned lonely it was. The only explicitly queer examples I had in the media I was exposed to were... Whoo, damn. Er... Mr. Humphries from Are You Being Served, Inara from Firefly, Captain Jack from Doctor Who, and... Thirteen from House. I know there were other characters, like Mr. Garrison from South Park and Will from Will and Grace, but I never watched those series.

As a fat, nerdy guy on the autism and anxiety spectra, I kinda had a tough time identifying directly with the dapper Humphries, the reckless Jack, the elegant Inara, and the brilliant Thirteen, though I found them to be indirect role models in other ways.

Ugh, I need to get to bed, and I'm rambling. But yeah. Disney, quit it with the wishy washy shit and relying on "Queer-coding" rather than having people who are open and honest and... Dare I say, functional? Because there's always the risk, as demonstrated by all of the above but Inara, that queer characters are portrayed as *only* being their queerness and nothing else. I mean, it's a damn important part of someone's personality, but it's not the only part...

Eh, sorry for the derail, I just kinda have strong feelings about this.

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