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So i heard #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend is trending yeah it is what is it? i was thrilled an entire movement dedicated to getting LGBT representation in an industry that is severely lacking in that department but then i started to notice it was just becoming a ship war and had basically turned into a stucky campaign now don't get me wrong would be ecstatic if that became canon but the whole thing just started to feel off to me i started thinking about what this campaign was doing and i realized it was erasing other valuable characters like sharon and sam and then people started arguing that we shouldn't be changing a person's sexuality, instead we should just bring in actual LGBT characters from the comics or use the ones we already have like deadpool d that got me thinking about why we wanted to campaign and make a canon straight character bisexual honestly don't know whether we've just run out of patience and are just grasping at whatever we can in order to get some form of representation wherever we can find it or if maybe people are just using a legitimate cause to try and make their ship canon i do know that the second option scares me because it's ignoring the actual underlying problem people are ignoring the actual cause and the actual problem they just keep shouting “STEVE AND BUCKY ARE IN LOVE" and that's not the debate we need to be having want captain america to have a boyfriend because Marvel has given us no other option I would love to introduce actual canon LGBT characters to the MCU and let them have their time to shine but if I'm being honest with myself that's not going to happen Marvel has their movies planned for the next four years and I don't see any LGBT characters in the line up sure we have deadpool but ONE superhero isn't enough especially when that superhero is in an R rated movie that kids shouldn't be watching and that really shows how Marvel thinks of these characters doesn't it? they look at hundreds of comic books and think to themselves let's go with the other straight white character because that's familiar. that's safe. they know it will work they look at the queer characters and think no one wants to see a film about them no one wants to see a film about a gay superhero they aren't important enough to have their story told' and when they make that decision they're telling hundreds of people everywhere that they aren't worthy of being a superhero i am worried about what this campaign is saying about the LGBT community LGBT is just a prop to be used to make someone's ship canon that LGBT is just a tactic for fan service that LGBT people aren't worthy of having their stories told of BEING a story worth telling i am worried that people are getting so caught up in Give Captain America A Boyfriend that they're ignoring that what we need to do is "Give LGBT the Representation We Deserve" Because the truth of the matter is Captain America doesn't need a boyfriend Marvel needs to get their s--- together and give us LGBT+ representation

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STARTING TO RETHINK THIS WHOLE THING, TO BE HONEST. P
no but really just imagine bucky killing steve and steve mutters out his name in his last few breaths and then, only then, bucky realizes, it all clicks into place for him as he remembers who he was and what they did, and he starts sobbing and tries to save his comrade but fails. and he ends up staying there, clutching onto the corpse, shaking and sobbing because he was too late. Anonymous tavrisprite: no but really just imagine my foot connecting with your face and breaking your jaw
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Marvel doesn't hate LGBT. Sorry kiddies but profit runs the world not your feelings. Sure they could add a LGBT super hero but specific countries like China, Russia, etc.. might ban it, or even forbid Marvel from showing future projects. Maybe the problem isn't that Marvel doesn't want LGBT-representation, maybe the problem is ACTUAL homophobia and ACTUAL transphobia in these countries.

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The real, underlying, problem is that Hollywood producers need to think about the international box office.

Sure, there is nothing wrong with having LGBT protagonists…but when you think as a worldwide investor things get a little complicated. You movie might get banned in China, The Middle East, half of Africa, and almost the entirety of South Asia. Thats ~35-40% of the world's population (China alone is ~16%) who will not pay a ticket to your film because it was banned there.

It's like NC-17 movies: No theater will carry them, so they don't make it. The same problem affects LGBT characters: A lot of countries will not carry them. So both options are, in a depressing way, box-office poison.

You can say Hollywood is racist/sexist/whatever…but at the core of it, they're business people. They're gonna do whatever they think will yield the higher profits. Having your movie banned in 40 or so countries because you dared be progressive is a sure way to drop those profits.

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