Only on Reddit: posting about US voting against making food a universal right every year, and the top comments justifying it
This is why comics aren't more popular in the west, constant rebooting. I get if it happened once or even twice in all the decades, but the reboots are constant.
Catching up on a manga can be a slog, but at least I know what the chronology is without having to consult a wiki, and they basically never reboot so the catching up is actually worthwhile!
I knew of the TikTok thing, but not being from the US I had no idea your news broadcasts are so... cramped with information
Firstly, I find it hard to believe you could even provide me an example where a character is in a relationship without that relationship ever being pointed out.
Secondly, I didn't say the relationship had to be a key plot point. In my examples they are, because those were the easiest for me to remember, but they don't have to be.
The core of what I actually said is it's shoehorning if you give a character a trait but never use it, or make that trait their only reason to exist in the story. It stinks of being added for marketing, and is bad story-telling.
That's why my first example was a shoehorned in retcon that absolutely only exists because marketing, cause explain why else JKR never once touched upon it until that point.
As to hetero-normative people assuming a character's sexuality. You are right, but that's the same with literally any normative trait - race, relgion, gender, etc.. If you don't name it, people will assume it.
You get around that by defining that trait, and when you do define that trait, people will expect that your character affirms that trait in how they act.
You act like people want an essay for why an LGBT character is LGBT, when what most people want is just for the character to actually be seen acting like they are, and not for that to be the only reason they exist in the story.
I could say I'm the President of the United States, but if you never see me acting like it, I might as well have made it up - that's the crux of it.
To be fair, that sounds like an intolerance to milk/lactose, which is a pretty good excuse for cutting milk out your life.
Probably not worth pointing at now, but have you considered trying milk substitutes. Oat milk is pretty good - I keep some at home cause I like both it and regular milk.
That would be a valid reason, but that wouldn't explain the massive volume it sells at.
Seems from the comments here that some people do actually prefer skim, can't fathom why, but they do
Consider I've joked that skimmed milk is water dyed white, I can't help but laugh at whole milk being called fat water haha
Wouldn't you be better off drinking a milk alternative if you wanted a healthier drink? Oat milk is healthy and environmentally friendly(-er)
I genuinely wonder who skimmed milk is made for.
If you can't drink whole milk due to the fattiness, you'd surely just drink semi-skimmed milk (2%)
And if you couldn't drink it due to the lactose, you'd just go for milk alternative.
So who is skimmed milk for? Who's buying it?
Don't even need a face to see how done this worm is with their partner's shit
And now you're missing the forest for the trees. I could say exactly the same for any homosexual relationship in media... But it wouldn't be the same, because someone's gender/sex is also an important defining trait.
The dynamic between two men, two women, or a man and woman in a relationship, or the pursuit of one, will be different simply because of the different sexes involved.
I've given you examples to prove my point, give me examples where heterosexual character's "just exist", where their relationships have no effect on their story. You'll struggle, because when a character's relationships are pointed out, it almost always has some effect on the story.
Because when you define anything about a character, the audience rightfully expects the character to be shown expressing that defined trait, or for that trait to have some kind of impact on them.
It's not just being LGBT that has to have some justification to it. It's any explicitly defined trait a character has.
So if you point out that a character is LGBT, the audience will expect for that to bleed through in how the character acts, or for it to have an impact on the story - and it's not like that doesn't apply to straight people.
Without elaborating on that trait, it feels shoehorned in simply because it would've changed nothing if you simply never defined that trait in the first place. The trait was tacked onto the character, not made a part of them.
The arguement you just made about heterosexual relationships, while wrong in that specific instance, uses exactly the same logic that you're fighting when I say it to justify the view that creating unelaborated, throwaway character traits is shoehorning.
One, I could give you that for James Bond, but are you really telling me you think How I Met Your Mother is sexist?
Two, I pulled two prominent examples out of my head, I apologise if they weren't perfect examples by your definition.
You want other examples, pick basically any media where relationships are a thing:
- Friends, exploring the on and off again dynamic between Ross and Rachel, the more stable relationship of Monica and Chandler, or the rather innocent bachelor lifestyles of Joey and Phoebe. The characters heterosexual traits have a huge effect on how the series pans out.
- Superman, in almost every iteration of Superman, he falls in love with and pursues Lois Lane. Every iteration handles the dynamic differently, but him falling in love is nearly always subplot.
- Spiderman, his first relationship with Gwen Stacy, or rather how it ends plays a large part in how Peter handles being Spiderman, and that's without mentioning how MJ influences him in most iterations.
All three of these, the character's heterosexuality is explicit and has an impact on the story.
When I say it has to have an impact on the story, I'm not saying it has to have a huge impact and be a deep introspection into being LGBT, I just mean that if you're going to say a character is LGBT, it should have at least a minor impact on the character in the story, i.e. you should actually show them acting as such rather than mentioning it and going nowhere with it as if it's just a throwaway line.
If you're going to make a character's straightness an explicit character trait, then it should have impact.
Think "How I Met Your Mother" for example. You have three guys in the main cast (Ted, Marshall, and Barney), all of whom have their straightness pointed out right away, but pursue it throughout the series in different ways due to their other characteristics. Marshall the married man, Ted the hopeless romantic, and Barney the bachelor/player (ironically played by Neil Patrick Harris)
Or the James Bond movies, almost infamous for having heterosexual romantic subplots (lacklustre plots IMO, but still). Those subplots alwayd tend to have some impact on how the movie plays out - whether he gets tricked by her, has to rescue her, or is even rescued by her, his romance with the Bond girl always affects the story in some way or another.
Given we live in a hetero-normative society, of course most heterosexual romantic plots are going to focus purely on the romance aspect rather than the intricacies of being straight, but could you replace the Bond girl with a guy? In theory you could, but in reality Bond's sexuality is so well defined in canon at this point, you would be told you shoehorned it in if you tried, as it has had not just an affect on the movies, but also people's perceptions of Bond.
This is to say that a character's sexuality is a fundemental trait of a person, something that paints their dynamic with other people (sometimes subtly, sometimes very unsubtly). Just tacking that sexuality on as an afterthought in such a way that you could take any and all mention of sexuality away and it'd have literally no affect on the character dynamics or the story being told is just bad storytelling no matter the sexuality being exploited for marketing.
The legislature has thus perversely given less time to those who seek to exercise their fundamental right to vote and more time to those who seek to deny it
Seems like a pretty good summary to me. I wonder why the GOP always seems to be against people exercising their rights to vote? It's almost like they can't win a fair election
I'm honestly more surprised by the fact that 61% of Brexiteers still think this will ultimately turn around, than I am by this headline
We've had almost 4 years to start righting the ship, and we've done barely jackshit so far. What makes them think things will suddenly change anytime soon.
Is this really any different from the 4Chan, Twitter, and Tumblr posts you'd see on Reddit?
The internet is an ouroboros of content, where eventually all freely available content will end up everywhere.
Also, I don't know if this works on Lemmy, but couldn't you just block the sub-lemmy if you didn't want to see it's content on All? That's what I do for KBin to stop seeing other language subs.