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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gabriel Maxwell" data-source="post: 365019" data-attributes="member: 121">I actually wouldn’t have a problem with this “Ryan Murphy pleasuring himself” approach if they came up with at least semi-plausible idea how this could have happened in the 1940s.But, that’s the problem in this piece of fiction — things just magically happen. The movie with non-white leads just magically becomes not only the biggest hit of 1948 but a record-shattering hit and everyone involved including all people of color gets an Oscar; Rock Hudson comes out (and with a black boyfriend!) and he’s still magically destined for stardom; and a romantic comedy about a gay couple magically gets greenlit (meanwhile, back in 2022 a movie dubbed “the first major studio gay romantic comedy” called BROS bombs hard at the box office).And this is where woke smugness kicks in — by making it so easy, it’s as if they’re communicating: well, I guess you people in 1948 just didn’t try hard enough, if you were a little more relentless like us 2020s woke warriors, things would’ve just happened. Of course, if they could’ve just happened, they wouldn’t have been a problem in the first place.Young people would’ve benefitted from a more realistic approach, perhaps even with a tragic ending, to learn - if they haven’t already - what it was actually like back then and how much has changed and how much hasn’t.As I said, I thought they had a more-or-less good thing going in the first episode with the gas station storyline, perhaps Corenswet’s character could’ve been gay, they could’ve stayed away from real life characters like Rock Hudson or Vivien Leigh, just mention them for backstory, except, maybe Henry Wilson or a Wilson type of a villain. He makes it huge, but then has to live in the closet and fear outing, blackmail, FBI “vice squad,” etc.I think a story of being gay in the 1940s/50s Hollywood is fascinating enough without resorting to any infantile wishful thinking, as even the recent Rock Hudson documentary on HBO proves.And the wokeness makes it all the more confusing. Apparently, they’re supposed to cast only gay people for gay roles, trans people for trans roles, etc. I thought actors were supposed to… you know, act.That hot guy from the Sicily-set season of WHITE LOTUS, what’s his name, the one who got killed off by Lady Mary with her devastating charm on DOWNTON ABBEY, he was recently announced as the actor who will be playing George Michael in an upcoming biopic (following the success of Elton John & Queen movies). I do think he exudes the right looks and confidence for the part. But, cue the screeching whining from Adam Lambert, who would ideally cast himself in the role, because he believes gay roles should only go to gay actors.Haven’t people like Michelangelo Signorille, campaigned for decades for gay men to be allowed to play heterosexual leading male roles? But if we go by woke logic, only heterosexuals should be allowed to play heterosexual roles. Or is that an exception because they are oppressors who are not allowed to participate in the woke Olympics?</blockquote>

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