Going back even older, there was conservative outcry when Korra and Asami held hands on Nickelodeon. The showrunners actually wanted their relationship to be way more blatant, but were continuously shot down by Nickelodeon. So the most they could get away with was some hand-holding. And even that was too much for conservatives.
For what it’s worth, in the comic sequels, their relationship was much more obvious.
Oh bruh you unlocked a trove of memory about the “will-they-wont-they” arguments in the TLoK fandom. I remember people saying it was a marketing strategy to get people talking about the show more, creating artificial drama, back when people still thought corporations actually cared about LGBT+.
Turns out, nope, just bigotry preventing the inclusion of LGBT+ romance in a kid’s show. Same shit as usual.
ooh, you know that’s a good point. I don’t think the person who made the meme was thinking about conservative pearl grasping but that fits the caption pretty well too. I should have thought of that
I’m of the opinion that both interpretations are just two sides of the same coin and thus both are, as you said, equally valid interpretations of this meme.
Going back even older, there was conservative outcry when Korra and Asami held hands on Nickelodeon. The showrunners actually wanted their relationship to be way more blatant, but were continuously shot down by Nickelodeon. So the most they could get away with was some hand-holding. And even that was too much for conservatives.
For what it’s worth, in the comic sequels, their relationship was much more obvious.
Oh bruh you unlocked a trove of memory about the “will-they-wont-they” arguments in the TLoK fandom. I remember people saying it was a marketing strategy to get people talking about the show more, creating artificial drama, back when people still thought corporations actually cared about LGBT+.
Turns out, nope, just bigotry preventing the inclusion of LGBT+ romance in a kid’s show. Same shit as usual.
ooh, you know that’s a good point. I don’t think the person who made the meme was thinking about conservative pearl grasping but that fits the caption pretty well too. I should have thought of that
I’m of the opinion that both interpretations are just two sides of the same coin and thus both are, as you said, equally valid interpretations of this meme.