Queer Erasure - Blog Posts
Hello, yes, I think this addition is extremely important.
There is almost twice as much written in the exclusionist tag, let that sink in.
So if y’all like writing fanfiction...
Say what you like about weird, cringy, or bad ao3 tags, I’ve found the absolute worst one ever, nothing can beat the horridness of this tag
Fuck you yes he fucking is. Stop erasing his identity you asshats
Hey, DC-
You made such a big deal out of creating your first trans masc superhero.
Give him more than f%cking 3 comic appearances.
making basil and dorian siblings in the netflix adaptation is just… offensive. the picture of dorian gray was literally used in court to incriminate oscar wilde of homosexuality
netflix how are you going to explain this
Which is also the excuse that proshippers use but i doubt they are okay with that, so why is erasure okay then?
- “its just fiction” i love how u guys use that excuse every time u erase gay rep 💀
Reblogging this so people get reminded
Reminder: Michelle in the book is a lesbian. They erased that part of her in the movie adaptation for no reason at all. Fuck Netflix and the Russos.
Reminder: Michelle in the book is a lesbian. They erased that part of her in the movie adaptation for no reason at all. Fuck Netflix and the Russos.
it’s been over three weeks since the electric state came out and i’m still tweaking over the fact michelle’s girlfriend wasn’t in the film 💔💔
my little lesbian i love her 👩❤️💋👩👩❤️💋👩👩❤️💋👩
Fucking- THIS! So disappointed when I learned that they stripped so much of her important character traits from her. Absolutely vile what they've done to this book
The Electric State made my blood boil for a lot of reasons, but chief among them was the straightwashing of the main character. In the Simon Stålenhag book, Michelle's first love is Amanda, who she meets at wilderness camp. Amanda's father is an abusive priest, and she ultimately rejects Michelle after what is implied to be conversion therapy. Michelle's queerness, in other words, is inextricable from the shrug she gives the United States as it slowly dies by consumerism. In the film, the country isn't dying (and slowly, horribly transforming into something else), it just needs less screen time. Nothing a rousing battle scene can't fix! Amanda is entirely absent, but hey, at least we're getting headlines like this!
Every review I've seen of the Electric State movie doesn't mention Michelle being queer like in the book so I assume the movie didn't have that as part of her character. Does that count as queer erasure? Specifically lesbian erasure?
Edit: Thought about it a little and maybe they didn't wanna tackle the part in the book where a lunatic priest converts her lover and Michelle breaks down at her feet. Too cowardly to portray a priest as an asshole.