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    11 days ago

    Disney never comes right out and says these things about their cartoons. Ursula is based directly on the drag artist Divine, but you won’t catch a Disney executive admitting that.

    But yes, Scar is basically the gay uncle.

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        11 days ago

        https://time.com/6282514/little-mermaid-ursula-drag-queen-divine/

        Ursula is pretty easy to understand, because that’s so 1:1 with Divine and there are direct confirmations.

        With Scar one of the supervising animators, Andreas Deja, is openly gay (now, not at the time because it was the 90s) and has spoken about adding campiness and other gay influence to his work.

        With other examples it’s a bit more difficult, because to understand it you need to understand how the Hays Code affected the portrayal of queer people on screen. The short version is that queer people weren’t allowed to be overtly portrayed at all, so any characters with queer coded behavior (by 30s to 60s standards) wound up as villains. As this becomes more entrenched in media, these mannerisms became shorthand for villain, so by the time the 90s rolls around the people referencing these tropes might not be familiar with their origin.

        For the long version, see the documentary The Celluloid Closet.

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            10 days ago

            Out of curiosity, did you copy the link from someone else’s comment on another instance? I’ve literally never seen a Blahaj comment get caught by a censor filter for anything, much less a .com

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              10 days ago

              Turns out there’s a spam filter on blogspot links because spam bots very frequently send links to them

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                10 days ago

                I’mma be honest, I’m struggling to trace your intended source. https://queeringthenetautumn2014.wordpress.com/ doesn’t work, WordPress tells me it doesn’t exist. https://queeringthenetautumn2014.com/ (which is what your earlier comment implies it should be) doesn’t exist in DNS. Google searching for “queeringthenetautumn2014” and for “gender-representation-in-lion-king” and similar turns up nothing useful.

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                    10 days ago

                    Ah right, thanks. It’s been a long time since I’ve come across a Blogger page! I wonder if I can link to it…

                    https://queeringthenetautumn2014.removed/

                    edit: ah, well it seems to work on my instance and on most others, but then get censored in federation to Blahaj. Which I guess is better than getting censored in all instances, but ah well.