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patrick star from spongebob, labled "the media", holding a large watermelon, labled "unnecessarily straight characters", over a sleeping squidward, labled "every god damn movie", whose mouth is wide open
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Every time my family brings up some character they believe "didn't need to be gay", I start bringing up movies I know they like that have unnecessarily ham-fisted romances that make no sense.
To all the people who think Pacific Rim would have been improved by Raleigh and Mako kissing at the end, you are wrong. There was 0 need for romance in a movie about giant robots beating the shit out of giant alien monsters.
Most action movies don't need their little romance subplots, yet they're everywhere.
Most movies would be mostly unchanged if you took out any romantic entanglement at all.
9/10 times, they're all unnecessary.
But if they're going to be crammed in, they should be representative. Lgbtq+ exist. They deserve representation.
My family has mostly stopped mentioning it around me.
So much this. Why does every darn movie need some romantic subplot? This crap is everywhere. It’s like heterosexuals can’t imagine a goid story being possible without cramming some random love couple in. Why?? Why was random romance needed?
A disproportionate number of songs that are total bangers otherwise are also all the same topics on repeat. Soulmate love song, upset breakup love song. Do they not know there’s more things they could sing about?
Hold on, do you think most music has romantic subplots?
Because the original argument is that a movie about giant robots fighting doesn't necessarily need a romantic subplot tacked on. It's not saying a Valentines Day romance movie needs to stop shoving romantic plots down our throats.
Maybe I'm just not well versed enough in music, but as far as I know, music producers aren't out there saying, "and now the big kiss... and moving on".
Every major pop song now features a 2 minute interlude, spoken word only, introducing new characters and lore, almost always shoehorning in a love story that nobody asked for. Jack Antonoff must be stopped.