As a creator I agree that our content should reflect whatever we please and our interests only. Any finagling should be done of the mass-consumption works of your Disneys and your Warner Bros., whose works are without a doubt not the personal works of the creative staff but of a means-testing worshiping marketing team in which no sense of personal investment from the creative staff permeates. Works independent of the commercial studio scene are a separate issue. I'm not going to tell an independent filmmaker who makes a movies about how much they hate trans girls and wants them to choke on their own vomit in their sleep that they cannot make that film or must be censored.jjgp1112 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 10:09 am I've always been a proponent of letting writers make whatever the hell they want rather than tying to please every demographic under the sun. Push to get more authors in your demo a shot, not try to make other franchises do it. Nobody's entitled to have anything appeal to then or represent them
No, they're soulless Hollywood products because they are aimed at the lowest common denominator to earn maximized profits. Corporations are not human beings, they have no human rights and they are not to be respected, they are to be used to serve a function for society's benefit because they are merely a system. Inanimate objects are not to be given the benefit of the doubt.Jord wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 10:48 am So, they're "soulless Hollywood products" because they don't feature every minority under the sun? I guess millions of people don't care about how "soulless" the products are then. It's quite simple, the movie business is a business. Business thrives on supply and demand. If the demand is high, the or a product will follow. If everyone in Japan was crazy about pink kangaroos, chances are that pink kangaroos would be featured in existing or new manga's. But people don't so there are (as far as I know) no manga's about pink kangaroos. Niche markets aren't financially interesting enough even if they're quite vocal online.
Like, what millions of Americans want doesn't matter if it's morally wrong? I'm sure there was a point where millions of Americans didn't want to see interracial couples up on the big screen, either. It doesn't mean we shouldn't hold corporate power responsible for their part in normalizing such bigotry or canonizing principled stances on harmless liberties like interracial marriage.
I made it pretty clear at the beginning of this thread that my stances on the subject were:
1. Toriyama probably doesn't care or think about the subject.
2. The consumer can do whatever they want with a product if they are able to justify their further fictionalization of that product. For example, there is just enough passionate expression of feelings between Tenshinhan and Chaozu and what they mean to one another that their relationship can easily pass for a pansexual love.
1. I wasn't being entirely literal but I'm sure somebody has drawn Tenshinhan and Chaozu fucking.Jord wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 10:48 amAnd that is just disturbing considering how Chiaotzu looks like a child....JulieYBM wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 12:15 am LOL, so what? What do you care if somebody other than you gets pandered to so long as the creator and consumer are happy? Why do The Queers© threaten you so much? It's quite possible to have Tenshinhan and Chaozu fuck in the same episode they kick major ass together.
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