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ilovekatemckinnon:
ageoftrashtruimphant:
So it’s 2016 I know, and we all have equal rights and whatever, sure. Of course we do. But International Queer Heartthrob™ Kate McKinnon was just asked in a Ghostbusters interview about her character’s sexuality and someone off camera very quickly told her that she wasn’t legally allowed to answer that question. Not LEGALLY ALLOWED to even HINT that a FICTIONAL CHARACTER in a MOVIE… MIGHT NOT BE STRAIGHT. She had to sit there, at the new height of her success, her career breakthrough, and still be told that she’s less than. And that’s…well, heartbreaking. It makes me feel a bit sick. Sony have literally hired a lesbian and then contracted her to not talk lesbian. What kind of big bowl of fuck off is that.
So Sony? You may want to perpetually portray worlds on screen in which we do not exist, but in the real one? Oh, we exist. In fact, thousands of teenage girls across the world have just been Holtzmanned. Which is a new euphemism for realising you fancy girls. Screw you.
*licks ghost gun and walks away*
*comes back for pringles*
*leaves again*
this is so important. you know kate wants to talk about it. pretty much everyone has seen the gifset where she says she doesn’t want to be some straight girl in movies, she wants to feel like she’s doing it for her people. when asked about holtzmann’s sexuality, the answer she has to give is, “it’s not addressed in the film.” do you have any idea how heartbreaking that is?
ilovekatemckinnon:
ageoftrashtruimphant:
So it’s 2016 I know, and we all have equal rights and whatever, sure. Of course we do. But International Queer Heartthrob™ Kate McKinnon was just asked in a Ghostbusters interview about her character’s sexuality and someone off camera very quickly told her that she wasn’t legally allowed to answer that question. Not LEGALLY ALLOWED to even HINT that a FICTIONAL CHARACTER in a MOVIE… MIGHT NOT BE STRAIGHT. She had to sit there, at the new height of her success, her career breakthrough, and still be told that she’s less than. And that’s…well, heartbreaking. It makes me feel a bit sick. Sony have literally hired a lesbian and then contracted her to not talk lesbian. What kind of big bowl of fuck off is that.
So Sony? You may want to perpetually portray worlds on screen in which we do not exist, but in the real one? Oh, we exist. In fact, thousands of teenage girls across the world have just been Holtzmanned. Which is a new euphemism for realising you fancy girls. Screw you.
*licks ghost gun and walks away*
*comes back for pringles*
*leaves again*
this is so important. you know kate wants to talk about it. pretty much everyone has seen the gifset where she says she doesn’t want to be some straight girl in movies, she wants to feel like she’s doing it for her people. when asked about holtzmann’s sexuality, the answer she has to give is, “it’s not addressed in the film.” do you have any idea how heartbreaking that is?
