I had friends and family gaslight me into thinking I wasn't bi for years. I finally came out at bi this year at 30 years old, everything in my life finally clicked.
I came out as bi when I was 26 back in 2020 and the way a lot of the self-hatred I carried just melted off to reveal a person who actually wants to live and be happy.
Similar situation as someone who didn't realize I was bi until my 20s. It feels a bit cringy to admit now, but I straight-up didn't know being bi even was an option until I watched Glee when I was a preteen, and even then that show felt like it equated being bi with being flaky or indecisive. If I was taught the words earlier, I probably would have been a lot happier and healthier during high school
Not LGBTQ+ (to my knowledge at least), but finding out I had autism was a very similar experience. Suddenly youve found that one puzzle piece that links together all those past experiences that previously just didnt make sense. All those times you remember who you were causing real friction with what people seemed to expect from you? All suddenly makes sense. Congrats on your enlightenment!
Saw this film with my Mom and we enjoyed it. It was unfortunate to see that the Disney film with the first truly openly gay character was so poorly promoted. As someone who grew up gay, as a kid and teen I never thought I'd see a Disney animated movie with a gay character, as a young adult it's cool to see that they have finally done it. And not only that, but the "gay" element is not Ethan's whole character, nor the whole plot. He is just gay but he has a lot of other positive character traits. That is positive for children to see because it says that being gay is just seen as something normal and doesn't make up everything about a person. I hope Disney continue to make progress in their films as time passes, and actually promote it this time.
Absolutely... Honestly, I have not seen any promotional content about it. No ads, no trailers and no press related interviews/videos at all. I just saw some video talking about how "woke" it is but it is barely brought up, the main character just liked someone and they mention it sometimes. Just usual cutesy romantic moments that are common in a lotof movies. Nothing wrong with it except it's a guy liking another guy.
I'm a trans kid with a mother who has wholeheartedly bought into the anti-trans rhetoric and I just want to say thank you for educating people. Sometimes I get scared that she's right and I spiral like crazy, but stuff like this helps, it always helps. I would be trans whether I saw representation or not, and I always have been, even before I understood what I was. Your videos mean a lot to me, Marlene, thank you.
I'm very sorry and i hope things will get better for you friend. Your mother isn't right. She has things she needs to fix within herself and within her outdated worldview. You're identity no matter what shape it takes, is valid no matter who says otherwise. Follow what makes you happy. Listen to what comforts you in the healthiest way possible! - From one trans to another.
Just deleted the transphobic comment above and then realized it makes it look like milsthebard1085's comment was critiquing the other person who responded who was kind, so here's my awkward clarification that there used to be a transphobic comment here!
Something I loved about Strange World was how accepting Jaeger Clade was of his grandson Ethan. I initially thought he was going to be a huge asshole when his grandson revealed he was gay, but I'm proud to have been proven wrong. Jaeger could have given Ethan better dating advice than "put Diazo in a dangerous position and then rescue him" though. Also, Searcher and Meridian Clade are definitely top tier Disney parents. They love and support both their son and each other, and their family dynamic is so wholesome and pure
@@dinosaysrawr I agree that Jaeger is far from perfect - abandoning his son for 25 years and being upset that his ex-wife had the audacity to remarry, but at least he treated his grandson with respect. Now with Searcher, he definitely has far to go when it comes to mending that relationship
@@aetheremployeesabrina , I was pleasantly surprised and relieved by Jaeger's positive relationship with Ethan--but, then, a lot of toxic parents actually end up having healthier relationships with their grandkids, for a number of reasons. Problematically, Searcher was the protagonist/viewpoint character of the film, and the dynamic between Searcher and Jaeger was positively poisonous for 95% of the runtime! Their ultimate reconciliation felt too little, too late, too quick, and too shallow, in light of what had happened before. I also feel like Jaeger's motives and drives weren't sympathetic enough for the audience to be willing to ultimately go, "Gee, we understand, buddy! It's okay!"
@@dinosaysrawr tbh I love his character arc. He was the embodiment of toxic masculinity but learned to do better. (Also him shaving his beard with a piranha made me chuckle)
@@jackriver8385 , me, I wanted just a bit more from him in terms of actively acknowledging the dark and harmful side of his zeal for adventure. He didn't acknowledge or try to make up for all of the pain he'd caused Searcher. Upon rewatch, something I didn't like about the film is how people's interactions and choices seemed more plot-driven than character-driven. Searcher and Jaeger's reunion put a *really* bad taste in my mouth from the start, and after all of their non-stop bickering from practically the word "Go," I couldn't buy that just fighting off some creatures together was enough to get them to talk. Just when we think Jaeger's starting to rethink his obsession with venturing beyond the mountains, he backslides *at the peak of the crisis.* I didn't buy that after his weird tone-deafness at the climax, he'd be inspired to turn around just by reminiscing about his family. Searcher's character was also a little inconsistent from my perspective, and another script rewrite could've ironed out a couple of those wrinkles/contradictions. Really, I think the message of the movie could've been, "Just because you have baggage related to your parents doesn't mean that your kids can't have a better relationship with them."
Hey. I'm Jasper. I'm sixteen years old. I'm a trans boy. And I'm tired. I'm so tired of people thinking that I am inherently evil. I'm tired of people thinking that I've been brainwashed and manipulated. It makes me so happy to get to be who I am, but people who claim to have my best interests at heart refuse to listen to me and people like me. It's exhausting to even hope that things will get better at this point.
i know it sucks a lot, and hearing all the hatecrimes getting worse makes me scared for my trans partner and myself, i dont get why people just.. randomly hate us and want to kill us just because they dont understand?? sometimes i just think that im inside some cartoon or whatever where everything gets magically better and theres no more hate or bad people in the world anymore, but it is really exhausting. i hope youll be okay, and know that you are valid no matter what man
im a trans boy too ^_^ im so tired of it all too. i tend to get myself into my own little world and think that it’s gonna be easy to transition and be myself but it’s never that easy cause I can’t even mention it around my own conservative parents. i don’t have anyone to talk to about affirming my gender and it makes me sad. :( i try to tell myself it’ll get better but I know I have to be scared for myself in this world. i wish people would wake up and see that homophobia and transphobia are just words to disguise plain meanness and not having an open mind and heart. i don’t wanna be evil, i just wanna live my life happily :(.
I'm also a trans boy and I constantly hear bills trying to be passed, shootings, people saying they are saving "healthy teenagers" from this "ideology" when I am just trans and just want to live without anyone saying they want trans people unalived. Most of my family except for my siblings are homophobic which meant I shouldn't ever talk about LGBTQ+ in general. I do have high hopes for us but for now, it's pretty hard. Just know you are valid as hell and we can get through this :]
@@cajunking5987 So, you're 1) ignoring what I'm telling you about my real life experiences, 2) being transphobic, and 3) being misogynistic. You've been duped by conservative political commentators, haven't you?
Knowing the term is powerful is so true. I'm a panromantic asexual. So I easily fell head over heels into crushes, but that's where it ended. As puberty and dating expectations changed. I didn't realise the absence really. Only in hindsight People would always ask, "would you date a trans person?" or translated "would you have intimacies with a trans person?" And if I was doing something that seemed, lacking better English, bold that to me meant I was in love with them. That we matched on an intellectual and emotional level. Then came first year at university where my professor (proud and pregnant lesbian I think of fondly to this day) explained there was a difference between romantic and sexual orientation. Kinda blue screened for a while. But once I rebooted I had terms to look back at my life in evidence to see who I was more clearly. And that power has made me very happy
The “developmentally appropriate “ part is sticky(intentionally) . As someone who survived “exceptional education “ in FL & went on to graduate with full college degree, the infantilization of students especially those who have nonconforming bodies, visibly or not is real and toxic. Parents don’t need more rights. Kids do need more rights. Kids need bodily autonomy. They deserve it. Pediatric cancer treatment damages fertility of children way more than Medical trans care, especially blockers. Where’s the outrage for that? Where’s the outrage for “The Ashley Treatment “? which is way more drastic than any accepted trans care for kids. Oh that’s right it was never about protecting kids. It’s always been about eugenics. 🏳️🌈♿️🏳️⚧️
When people call it "mutilation", and yet continually circumcise children right after birth for the parent(s) own convenience with no consent from the child and even having an entire religious ceremony centered around it.
“Hiding things from parents “ isn’t the goal. Treating kids as whole people with individual needs is. Children are never extension or the property of their parents. Too many parents have the lives of kids preplanned before kids are born .That’s doesn’t help anyone to grow or sustain their social needs or skills they need to realize themselves
For all the complaining about "wokeness", nobody seemed to have a problem with the Minions dressing in drag for over two minutes in Minions: The Rise of Gru after everyone complained about the 5 seconds of Lightyear's same sex couple. What hypocrites
Cause they see it as a joke like, their sense of humor is so outdated any one who is perceived as “male” being dressed in feminine clothing is seen as “abnormal” and “odd” so therefor it’s funny. But if it’s taken seriously apparently it’s wrong. To them feminine men are made to be mocked not to be taken seriously.
@@lulub517 YES! My school does a thing where we have a Homecoming Queen assembly during Homecoming. The cheerleaders dress up the senior boys in dresses w/ makeup (sometimes characters like Tinkerbell, usually they make up country-loving-girl personas) and during the assembly they dance and do whatever; pretending to twerk, doing splits, hitting the griddy, throwing candy to the little kids, whatever they think’s funny. Then at the end the adults call out the senior’s persona’s names and we scream for who we want to win. I guess I don’t really need to add this, but: this is a conservative, small town, mostly-white Christian school in the south. Not as bad as you can get, but definitely not great.
@@can0cringe I think it’s really funny that your small conservative town throws drag shows at the high school every year lol. Living in a small conservative town is really, hard, though. I hope you’re doing okay!
@@stingrae919 I'm pretty good thanks, just trying not to end up white knighting about anything because where would that get me! But yeah they would definitely cry about drag shows even though we throw one every year lol
Thank you so much for voicing why I couldn't just "be a gay man". Speaking as a straight trans woman, the dynamic and the participants in gay male relationships are so, so different from straight ones. I dated a man in a gay relationship while still closeted and it felt so wrong; I couldn't experience love and romance if I was under the pretense that I was a man. I wasn't what he wanted and the dynamic wasn't what I wanted. I never see this brought up in these discussions, so thank you.
Wait, wait- and don’t come attack me, I’m just trying to understand but… did you transition bc of your need for a relationship NOT presenting as male, or did you transition due to, well, gender dysphoria? /genq
I started transitioning in 2004, but I went back into the closet and boymoded starting in 2011 for the sake of getting work. That was when the relationship happened, I had dysphoria and realized i was trans long before. Hope that clears things up.
The parents who calling us "groomers" for just existing in movies while almost all of Disney movies show man and woman in love and kiss each other are just scared that their child will discover that they're lgbt and will not give them like 6 grandchildren
The fact that such parents exist is proof that we live in a society that encourages suppression of having opinions, thoughts, feelings & overall anything that is different. Ever wonder why we do just keep getting the same kind of movies every year without fail?
@@ExtremeWreck because those movies sell tickets. Movies with predominately gay characters don't sell, especially when companies make their sexual preference the selling point. Wonder why Bros failed? Because no one cares you're gay. It doesn't make you special
Holy fudge, I identify as non-binary but some of this resonates so hard, especially the "I had no idea something was even happening because I have never heard a word for it naming it as an option" part.
as a 13 years old trans person, i can say that the "regret" on gender affirming care is true. everytime i try to talk about being trans with an adult, including my parents, they always keep asking questions like "did you feel pressured to?" or "you know that you can be a girl and like girls, and there's no need to turn yourself a boy because of it, right?", but they never actually accept that i am trans. i acutally just want them to accept me for who i am.
Same. I’m 17 and I’m going to be able to take T soon on my own. I don’t even wanna know what my grandparents are gonna say. Im scared, but i’m with you!
God I hate that people think ALL trans men are secretly just lesbians. I'm a trans guy, I think men are hot (in a romantic and aesthetic way), and I would definitely not be a lesbian if I wasn't trans. I like guys, I like girls, I like non binary people, I don't care.
I had this happen to me (because i have queer friends as a t person) and all i did was ask WHY they don't have tons of gay and trans friends around them. Like maybe it's not that we want to "turn" people, but because queer people (even before coming out) stick together and cis het people will never relate to us in the same way or feel the need to do so. They don't even notice they seek like-minded people, because cis het friends looks like the norm to them. Wish you luck!
Trans people are people. Anyone who says otherwise is either delusional,or is addicted to the feeling of putting down others. It’s genuinely sickening that there are people who want to hurt others over this,another boogeyman made up by The right’s propaganda machine. To any trans people reading this,you’re worth it. Stay strong,and don’t let the bastards push you down. You’re amazing Just by being yourselves.
Disney has a history of doin' their science fiction films dirty going all the way back to the 60s--and on top of that, sadly, Strange World was just an "okay" film overall that fell disappointingly short of its (in my view) incredible potential. (This is not wholly unexpected, though, given the film's director, Don Hall, who is also known for directing Raya and the Last Dragon and Big Hero Six.) It's deeply frustrating that so-called "woke" films always end up being drafted into the eternal Culture War, and can't just be judged on the basis of their merits and flaws. (And the same goes for films that people decide are anti-woke!) In any case, thanks for this overview of the issues in play! You are absolutely right about healthcare always involving a level of cost/benefit analysis. People are throwing trans healthcare out the window in bad faith over risks and complaints that would *never* be treated as deal-breakers when it came to other health issues! Can you imagine people wanting to ban anti-depressants entirely because they can increase suicidal ideation in some underage patients? Can you imagine people gagging about how heart surgery is just so DISGUSTING, and insinuating that it should be treated with suspicion based purely on that? Can you imagine people fretting about how chemotherapy causes people to lose their hair and feel nauseated, so maybe we shouldn't do it at all? Can you imagine people declaring some group of people to be "mentally ill" or "sick," and then inexplicably *not* wanting those "sick" people to receive the empirically-validated course of treatment for their illness, hmm? I surely can't!
I liked Strange World but is it just me or was Luca a much more gay movie? I feel like Strange World was a movie that happened to feature gay protagonist where as Luca was a movie that encapsulates as many gay movie tropes that fit the gay experience as possible (coming out, meeting individuals who get you, found family, dealing with hate crimes, falling in love, self-acceptance, and embracing your differences for what they are).
I think there should be space for each type of movie. Movies that examine the struggle of not being accepted are just as important as movies that look ahead to a time when being LGBTQIA+ is no longer something that families refuse to accept.
That's definitely valid. Even though the creator of Luca said there was nothing intentional about the gay undertones, those in the community can definitely treat it that way. However, that doesn't mean it was a "better" gay story, it was just the coming of age story. There is room for that kind of story but also the story of just existing as a gay person already out like in Strange World. The coming out doesn't always need to be the whole plot. As a gay guy it was refreshing to watch a movie with a gay character who didn't struggle with their sexuality and had a completely different story arc.
i have yet to find a book/movie where the queer character doesn’t get accepted by their families. it really just continues to make me feel sad and left out of all of those amazing coming out experiences that my friends got, that i don’t get because of my homophobic family.
@@Altchannel2988 Even without shipping the main characters, Luca was pretty heavy with the gay parallels though. The director even said that they considered at one point making Luca and Alberto more than friends while making the movie but decided to go the platonic route, but obviously some of the people involved in making the movie were on board with the shipping. McKenna Jean Harris who was the story lead of Luca and the director if Ciao Alberto has drawn and reblogged art of the characters that's pro-LGBT.
I find it dumb when homophobic and transphobic people are always going with "we must protect the kid," meanwhile heavily damaging queer and trans minors.
And groom kids into heterosexuality, as they claim the LGBTQ+ community does to kids which they’ve been doing for years. They’re the biggest projectors.
Thank you for making this video. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with ME for not subscribing to everyone’s “Disney is bad cause woke and diverse” like, am I and everyone else who isn’t straight, white and cis not allowed to exist??? This movie was not perfect, but it’ll always be important to me as a gay guy who always wanted this in a Disney film. I appreciate your video for making me feel like I’m not alone
I am both pansexual and a trans woman. There's been so many different things that I've dealt with. Whether it's Florida's bs laws or when people at Club Q were murdered and injured or my parents telling me my whole super religious family will disown me if they all find out about my sexual preference and my gender identity. It's all so overwhelming that it's hard to deal with it all. But I've tried to do my part in not only protect myself but others like me. I've signed petitions to overthrow Florida's "Don't Say Gay" nonsense, I give my condolences to everyone who lost their lives at Club Q and I'm currently not talking to my parents or most of my religious family. (Which has been helpful for health and stress) I actually saw Strange World in theaters on Thanksgiving. My parents didn't want me to go to our Thanksgiving dinner because of me being pan and trans and that my super religious grandmother wouldn't get it either. It really hurt me and I cried when they didn't want me to be a part of a family get together but I tried to make the best of it. I saw that movie in theaters and I loved it. I loved the art style, I loved Splat (who I saw as a combination of Flubber and Q-Bert) and the fact that one of the main characters was gay and had a crush a very handsome boy, was very cute. I didn't see anything bad about that at all. I only saw it once in theaters but I thought it was a great movie. I'd definitely watch it again. Thank you for making this video, Marlene! I love watching your videos. You along with several other trans people really give me the confidence to keep going and love who I am. (Both inside and out) Besides you, my other idols are Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Lana and Lilly Wackowski, and my younger brother who's also trans. Thank you, Marlene again! Keep being you and I will never stop supporting you. Thank you! 🏳⚧
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! She's not a man though lol. Did you mix up the definitions? I used to do that, but trans woman means she identifies as a woman, not that she transitioned from a woman :)
Yeah. It's kind of impressive just how little marketing Disney has done for this movie. It genuinely feels like they had no idea what to do with it and just quietly let it die Rescuers Down Under/Treasure Planet style.
Something I also think is really strange about queerphobic media outlets is they often also include the fact that "wokeness" includes adding poc characters, which shouldn't be a controversial thing.
" Wokeness" in it basic term was referring to projects or media outlets using progressive and humanitarian themes as a marketing tool without bothering for the substance and accuracy of such things ( e.g. "first" Disney gay characters, the cancelled New warriors comic, Terminator: Dark fate being marketed as a feminist movie and overdoing it), unfortunately this term became highjacked by people who are just intolerant to such people and use it on anything they don't like based on their own bigotry rather than artistic integrity, so the word itself doesn't imply that's bad to have LGBTQ and racial things in something, it's just used by the wrong people
Despite getting hit with a wave of Seasonal depression and s***idal thoughts, I didn’t realize how much I needed this. This year has been awful for LGBT rights / support, it’s exhausting to watch. Ive been losing hope and becoming detached. Honestly, thank you for making this video. . I’m one of the lucky people who was able to have surgery at age 15- in the Bible Belt, with a ridiculously conservative father. After 3 years of therapy, he (and my mother of course) allowed me to, and not because he agreed with it at the time, not because we guilt tripped him, but because he understood what the alternative might have led to. At 20 years old, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. It kills me to see the laws being proposed, and the gross accusations towards parents. Imagine: not being able to help your child without the risk of being charged with “abuse” or being labeled a groomer and/or ending up with a dead child because you legally couldn’t help them. They want to cry about not considering parental rights, but they don’t consider the parents who want to help their children. At the end of the day, If the risk of suicide isn’t a deal breaker to reconsider someone’s mindset about this, maybe they shouldn’t have kids.
Sorry for the life story/rant BS, I just wish people would look into this issue further before lying and gaslighting other people to support their “opinion”. Again, thank you so much for making this video. 🧡
as a trans man, I thought I was a lesbian for YEARS because I couldn't imagine myself in a straight relationship with a man. since then I've realized it was the "straight" part and not the "man" part that bothered me, and I am now happily with another guy :)
The same thing happened to me! I knew I was pan but not long after the dysphoria really began to set in. I thought I was lesbian for quite a while. I eventually found out I was right the first time, and something else was wrong. It wasn't that I didn't want to be in a relationship with a guy, I just didn't want to as a girl. It felt wrong. But now I'm out here living my best life as my pan trans self
@@Harudodo SAMEE I'm also pan!! and that's exactly what happened to me lol, I kept flipping back & forth between bi/lesbian/pan for a bit before I realized lmao 😂
My best friend has a black mom and white dad and he’s gay. For the first time ever, he literally saw himself in a Disney movie. I saw this Thursday night of its opening weekend and absolutely loved it! The animation was gorgeous and the characters were well defined. I’ll definitely buy it when it’s available as home media. I just hope they do make it available! I truly hope that one day none of this will be an issue at all, like Jaeger Cade’s beautiful reaction to his grandson being gay. It was more of an issue for poor Ethan to explain how his favorite game was played!! I have a coworker that I’ve discussed trans rights with. His heart is in the right place, but he’s bought into the conservative scare tactic that his children are in danger of being… I guess… brainwashed or something? He keeps insisting that children have been forced to transition but can’t seem to find the articles of proof when I ask for them. He’s a nice guy and as I said, his heart is in the right place. Sadly his brain has been clouded by Fox News.
32:50 “My body wasn’t mine I just talored it to what the men I wanted to be with we’re looking for” This. I never thought my experience of a transmasc bisexual would align so well with a trans woman But growing up my entire gender and presentation was tailored to what men thought of me. Who was I when people weren’t looking?
“everybody’s either gay, of color, trans” there… there were no trans characters in lightyear… i’m beginning to think mr. podcast man didn’t ACTUALLY SEE lightyear…
And even if that was true, so? There's literally nothing wrong with that unless they were stereotyping. I feel like he'd watch a K-Drama and complain that the entire cast was asian and there was no white representation 💀
I would say “apparently everyone’s white and cis and straight” these fuckers have had all been spoon fed the same white washed straight-forced crap for years and as soon as something minor comes across that isn’t what they’re used to, they use their ape brains to go bananas on it.
@@lulub517 FR like, here : every single Disney princess movie (minus Mulan, ofc) featuring a straight couple. Not even mentioning the hundreds of cis Disney characters. Yet the second we get a little diversity it's accused of being propaganda or erasing 💀
I am a senior in a Florida highschool. I am also a library aid during one of my periods at said highschool. My teachers sometimes ask me to grab books for them that are being “looked into,” (I don’t remember the word they use but basically the book is being looked at to see if it is appropriate for highschool). Two books I have pulled are The hate you give and the girl and the sea. The hate you give was pulled for being too anti police and the girl and the sea was pulled because there was a kiss between two girls at the very end of the book. I could talk for a while about the hate you give being pulled. The people wanting to pull the book also use the argument that there is too much profanity but as a highschool we, I say much worse. The girl and the sea, on the other hand, is a short graphic novel about environmental issues which also has the main character doubting her sexuality and her neglect of her friends. Too many books have been looked into for just having a queer character. I love my librarians so much because they fight tooth and nail for books they know have no right being taken away from us. We are being censored and called unnatural for things that are a part of our lives. I’m a person of color, I’m trans, and I’m gay. They are trying to take away books that helped me become who I am.
Hi! My name is Sterling. I just wanted to say that while listening to this video, a warm feeling of reassurance washed over me. Thank you both for always making these needed pieces of media
Girl, it took me 5m to focus because YOUR VOICE IS SO DIFFERENT 😍 It's beautiful and you must have worked SO hard to get this far. Holy fuck it's amazing, ily
Thank you for bringing up the whole "I knew what I was as a kid but was never taught anything to define it" situation. I'm non-binary, and I often consider how different my childhood would have been if I actually was taught about other genders besides 'boy' and 'girl'. I recall not being happy that I was born into a male body, but also not wanting to be a girl. It would've been really great to know that I actually didn't fit into the binary all along. I hear a lot of people accuse teens who can't figure out what pronouns they feel best with or switch through gender identities as being "fake", or "attention seekers", or "not really trans", and trans youth get told that we're all confused and mislead about wo we are. I disagree with this because, sure... I tried fitting into different identities before I discovered I was non-binary, but it wasn't because I'm not non-binary or because I was overwhelmed. It's because I had no support at school or in my home at the time, and I had to go on a solo crash course throughout my entire childhood and early teen years to discover my gender identity, and even just to discover that I wasn't alone in being non-binary. ...I gotta stop writing these paragraphs in CZcams comment sections.
It really gets better. And though I am a bit cynical in this video, I have faith that the world is becoming a better place every day. Hang in there! Trans pride! 🏳️⚧️
I've never seen marketing for Strange World other than maybe the occasional ad here and there. I feel disney didn't hype it up and that's what made it a failure. There was more hype for Lightyear, than strange world. When you don't t hype it up, you don't make much.
I think… not committing to acceptance (trying to stay in a safe zone to please everyone aka not lose money) is more harmful, sincerity resounds with every human.
Indeed. Not doing anything at all is just as harmful. It allows for complacency where the antis can just walk over everyone as they please. You have to be for *all* human rights or for "specific humans" rights. The latter isn't a side any decent person should be in if they're really as open minded as they might claim to be.
Similar Disney films like "Strange World", have never done well to begin with. Then there the almost nonexistent advertising and people just not spending as much or going to the theaters as often as they did before the pandemic. I loved "Strange World". I loved the art, the scene, the emphasis on "family", the dog, how instead of trying to do what other films have done in the past where one of the parents disappear and then come back and get back with their partner this film instead shows the mother having moved on, I especially loved the portrayal of "empathy", for other species, and yeah I loved the representation on all levels.
As a trans girl, I keep getting scared for my future every week because it seems that people just keep getting angrier about us trans folks, and now that Matt Walsh has literally advocated for concentration camps, I am scared that people are genuinely considering genocide. I just hope that things turn around for the better I am really just, terrified
when i found out strange world dint do well i just KNEW people were gonna make those "get woke go broke" videos and i was right. im so tired man. just let us have rep without calling it ~woke propaganda~ or whatever.
@@sethyredninja1422 The higher ups definitely, but that goes for like fifty percent of the world. A lot of Disney artists and animators do care but they have little to no say because capitalism rules our world, so money goes before people. Who likes money more than people? Conservatives. You get way more money grifting to the brainless group than you do people who care about human rights.
That's an excruciatingly long pause at 21:12, and my heart breaks. I wish I could snap a world into existence where there would be no hate, and that we are past the pettiness of rhetoric.
I’m so happy you’ve been talking about your experiences with transitioning and how it relates to everything happening around us in the zeitgeist of current politics. It’s already such a personal journey for you and putting it all out there for us to hear about takes immense courage. I hope more people listen to you and other trans people so that we all can learn to empathize.
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm sixteen, non-binary, and so, so tired of the hatred from people who believe that I exist solely because of a woke agenda or mental illness. (My mental illness is NOT related to my transness!!!) This year has been hard because even though I live in a liberal state, I am still affected by the distinct rise in homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that we've been seeing all year. I fear for my trans brothers, sisters, and siblings in less liberal areas, whose health is being politicized and restricted. I fear for myself as well, because the hospital nearest to me that offers gender affirming care for minors (Which doesn't really even go beyond hormone blockers until they're adults) recieved bomb threats recently. Even though it's in a liberal state, and even though it is a children's hospital. I'm scared, but I also have hope. Because this hatred and fear brings us backward, we know that forward motion is possible. We know it's possible t o be better than we are, and so we need to keep pushing for that. I know I, for one, am going to continue to fight as hard as I possibly can for the rights of everyone around me.
My god, imagine threatening a children's hospital. That's beyond messed up. They really just proved they don't actually care about "the children", huh?
As a young bi transfem, it's been... Interesting, to say the least. When i came out to my parents they instantly asked me if I liked watching Vice Ganda (a very popular gay tv person here in the Philippines) and it instantly left a bad taste in my mouth, because I knew they thought that being gay and being trans is the same thing, it especially doesn't help when we only have one word for them, "bakla", it's been really infuriating, because my attraction leads to women more than men and idk, it's just been really, really infuriating...
This is so fucking good. Keep up the good work. Some straight people are irrational or they just don’t have the right sources. And that stuff shoved down there throat. Here’s to hoping for a future where people can just be people.
Thank you for this video, your insight and your knowledge helps bring attention to a very terrifying part of society. Luckily enough more people are being able to express themselves how they want, whether that is being gay, trans, pansexual, etc. but having people always try and inhibit your expression is just downright evil. If only those who have true power in this world can stop perpetuating this anti-gay, especially now with anti-trans, rhetoric. I am not gay or trans but I have always wanted to find ways to understand and find ways in order to be more open about my support for the LGBTQ+ community as an ally. Again, thank you for your work and I am sure many people will appreciate you covering this major topic. Thank you.
i thought the queer rep in strange world was actually quite good, it wasn't in Ethan's main character trait and everyone (even jaeger, who was in his 60s during most of the film) was supportive of him. It should've gotten more promotion tbh, it was a good film.
Before Strange World was released, the news talked about how the farmer Clade had a daughter who is a lesbian, but when the movie was released, it was revealed that the speculated daughter was actually a boy named Ethan, and it made me wonder what made the media imagine that the character is female? Or was there a gender swap somewhere during the scripting where Ethan and Diazo became male even though they were originally meant to be female?
I haven't even watched this video yet and I can already guess why Strange World failed; it wasn't promoted. Literally everyone I've spoken to had no idea the film even EXISTED until Journalists started talking about it bombing.
@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain HeteroSEXUAL. Following your lovely word logic we should ban straight people from being round kids. Also, TransGENDER isn't sexual. Neither is the romatic orientations. HomoROMATIC, aROMANTIC, biROMANTIC. Based on the simple fact people seem fine with kids watching a film where a prince falls in love with a princess (romance), then there should be 0 problem if it's 2 princes or 2 princesses.
I have to wait a couple days to see it on the streaming service, but I can't say if Strange World was just a hard film to market. They did a poor job hyping up the movie, they released it directly in-between their tentpole Black Panther and Avatar movies, and I have yet to see a piece of merchandising of any kind, outside of one ink reveal coloring book. Personally, I wanted to see it, but couldn't make the time for it and rather wanted to see Violent Night and could only do one. And I get the fact Chapek wanted it to fail so it could go faster to streaming because that worked so well with Encanto (which had promotion and merchandising even before it hit Disney+, BTW). As for Lightyear, I can't imagine the tepid reviews did anything to help. That one I did get a chance to see, and I can indeed see why it never caught on. They tried too much to make it a live action film, which works in universe, but doesn't so much in our reality. Plus, they claimed it was Andy's Star Wars, forgetting Star Wars is Sci-Fi fantasy, and they made the thing too grounded. It did feel like a 90's Sci-Fi movie, but in the vein of Armageddon or the other one with the same plot. Plus, that Zurg reveal kinda pissed me off, and I can't imagine anyone else liked it as much as the filmmakers.
Holy crap, that movie has an OPENLY and PROUDLY GAY PROTAGONIST? i gotta head right over to disneyplus and get me some popcorn all jokes aside, the fact that a movie with disney's first queer character to be done justice in representation did absolutely horrible is just heartbreaking.
I love this. Thanks for doing real research and showing your sources. I've come to learn that I'm usually on the wrong side of an argument if my side starts saying, "don't even look at what they're saying, it's too dangerous." Heaven forbid I actually think, right?
I absolutely despise how these kinds of people will blame representation for why a movie flopped. When there are factors like theaters dying and the movies themselves overall maybe just not being very good writing wise and in spite of representation being there
omg i'm also a trans person who was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis lmao. i was diagnosed when i was around 2 or 3 and have been on several medications for it for the majority of my life. it's crazy to see how many people will jump to saying that i'll regret testosterone or that it's too dangerous to take (at 19 years old) when i have literally been on a low-dose chemotherapy medication that could potentially ruin my liver and another medication that increases my chances of getting skin cancer for juvenile arthritis for YEARS and no one ever stopped to question whether those ones were too dangerous for me as a literal child.
I knew I was trans since I was about 5, but didn’t know there was a word for how I felt and who I am until 10 years later. Finding out I wasn’t broken or alone was so reassuring and comforting. My family was confused and a bit iffy at first, but once they saw how much happier and confident I was after coming out, they welcomed me with open arms. I’m not religious, but I was raised in a Christian home, but even with them being religious, my family loves and accepts me, and I’m so grateful. My mom said that looking back, there were a lot of signs of who I was as a kid, and says that if she could go back and help me start my journey sooner, she would ❤ Transphobes love to say it’s “just a phase” lmao well, Martin, I’ve been on T for 4 years, had top surgery 2 years ago, and have been living as me for 10 years, so that’s one helluva long phase 😂
excellent work, Marlene. hoping you got a nice break afterward from researching all that hate. I really like the font choices and the additional footage you (?) shot too.
19:31 I'm a trans student who went to school in California in LAUSD they would allow us to change our names in the system to our preferred names but it required parental consent because if they called our parents in an emergency and used our preferred name (as that would be all that would show up in the system) it could result in confusion and our parents possibly denying it's their kid so alternatively you could just have a counselor email all your teachers asking to use your preferred name the only downside being on a school ID or document it would be your legal name So needing parent consent for a system name change is more of a safety issue regardless there's always going to be the issue of being accidentally outed (which happened to my friend when the teacher emailed their parents not knowing they weren't aware of the name change)
Ugh. Thanks for letting me know - If you remember the name of the companies or websites, I think I can prevent future ads from them on this video. Totally no worries if not though
@@DreamsoundsVideo I can't remember the name but it was an ad for a documentary about how the blm movement donated a ton of money towards drag and sex workers or something. Which, yeah duh but it was skewing it in a negative tone
12:36 i live in a fairly liberal state and in 8th grade, we had a two day unit in health class about gender, sexuality, and contraceptives. my mother decided i was not to participate in class for those days. she had me sit outside with “focus on the family” books about sex and gender. and i still ended up queer and trans. not teaching kids about this stuff isn’t going to prevent them from being queer/trans, its just going to make them hate themselves more.
Ok, beyond the actual contents of this video, Marlene, your voice is gorgeous! 💚 Do you have any tips? (As far as the content of the video, I'm so tired. Sigh.)
You're always so eloquent in your videos and the things you share often help me reflect more on my own thoughts and experiences. Thanks for making another fantastic video! I hope you're doing well :)
Wow huge difference, your voice is so pretty 😍 Like some old fashion radio host, that strict lady with a kind heart at 7 pm, talking about opening of a new school, so calming
Okay that's it. I'm just going to say it; one of the biggest reasons why nobody likes "Strange World" was because there was absolutely no reason why one of the main characters was gay. There I said it and as far as I can tell, that's literally it. This detail could've not been shown at all and the movie would literally not change whatsoever.
This video is literally the first I’m hearing of Strange World, which is wild because gay, animated Disney media should definitely be a top tag in whatever data set they use to target ads at me.
Until literally this moment I didn’t even know there was a gay character in it, we’re in an economic recession. We can’t afford to go to the box office. I only knew it came out yesterday, there was almost no ads either
im glad someone else acknowledges the trans-feeling meaning behind how far ill go, i dont know why it took me so long to see it, i only just added it to my trans playlist a few months back lol it does really suck being trans in a world that sees that as every version of sin they can think of, though. one day itll be better, it has to be, but that day really cant come soon enough.
Great video! Here's hoping Pixar's Elio hits the stride again with its really obvious queer and internet metaphor and makes some of the subtext actually text too.
Your personal story at the end really struck me because it is so similar to my own story. I am a gay trans man, and I always knew that I liked men, halfway because of societal standards. But I always felt sad and envious when I realized that I would never love men like a man like the (very few well represented) gay men I saw on TV. In middle school, I knew I was some flavor of gay, so I said "I might be bi" It wasn't until high school that I encountered trans people in my friends and classmates, and not at all in media. And it wasn't until the pandemic after I graduated that I had time to think, and to realize who I actually was. Perhaps if I had had the language earlier, I wouldn't have been so sad in middle school, thinking I could never have what I wanted, trying desperately to prove myself as masculine enough to be what I didn't know I was yet. Great video!
The thing is that, Disney didn’t Market the movie at all. When something isn’t advertised people will not know about it, they will not know when it will be in theaters. I liked Strange World, because it made a very good message about co-existing with the environment. Taking what you have and making the world around you better than it was before. That should be the message that you get from the movie.
i hadnt heard about the movie until people were talking about how no one went to see it, which was incredibly shocking because i dont even have ad block and i never saw a single ad for the film
The first time at 15 that a friend asked me about my sexuality, I told them I was attracted to men, but in the way a guy likes men. I didn't tell them I was role-playing as a man and going under a male name online every day, so even though they said the answer about my sexuality made sense, they were still shocked when I came out as a trans man a few years later. We're not erasing gay people by being ourselves - as you said, many of us are actually trying to embrace being gay. I don't think the people pushing the narrative against this actually care about gay people in the first place.
i think some of these people who are talking about people “turning the kids trans”, or even that their “forcing” people to get gender affirmation surgery need to talk to actual trans kids before saying these things.
The biggest reason for some of this movie failing at the box office is a combination of pandemic is still on going and we are just starting to get back to fully normal. People know that the movies will be on Disney plait eventually as well. So many ppl got Disney plus partly bc of the pandemic and bc of marvel shows. Light year being a flop was some of those reasons combined with ppl thinking it’s not worth it to see a movie that is profiting off of toy story in the theaters. A lot of ppl were tired of things not being original. I think some of it was after ppl heard abt the gay kiss that was a second long. Strange world was sabotaged from the beginning. It was sandwich between two other big movies in a different series. It was released the day before some ppl celebrate thanksgiving. Ppl likely wouldn’t have much time anyway. Ppl were more focused on other movies and also the advertising for Strange World was terrible. It is ironic that with Strange World ppl try to say the reason they are upset abt the character being gay is because he is 16 and is a minor. They showed that isn’t actually true with Lightyear they complained abt adults being gay. This proves so much that they were never concerned abt the kids and that they are just homophobic
I can definitely understand where you are coming from for me, I still prefer women, but I discovered I was trans and was worried about who I was as I never felt masculine and was in the wrong body and two years ago, I decided to start transitioning and I have no regret starting this journey I still have a long way to go but every day is a single step.
The only reason I didn’t see this movie was the character designs. It evokes some kind of deep fear in me. The eyes are the main reason. It’s uncanny valley for me. But this video made me want to watch it, I’ll check it out
If I was to take a guess, it's cause the designs look better in 2D. A lot of times, translating a 2D design into 3D can lead to some funkiness. This is actually more common than you think, esspecially when the 3D look is going for a realistically textured style. But hey, that might just be my preference for 2D peaking through.
The film opens with a song that is animated in a 2D comic book art style reminiscent of hand-drawn Disney films, and I desperately wish the entire film looked like that
Puberty blockers have also been used in trans kids since the 80's, not just cis kids. First done by Vu center of expertise for gender dysphoria. Read Alex Bakker's book 'The Dutch Approach' for a detailed history, including interviews with the clinicians who did that, and an interview with the very first patient (a trans guy now in his 50's) to receive that treatment. The starting point of puberty blockers for trans teens is extremely well documented, and the teenagers who received the treatment were followed by VU researchers for decades afterwards, logging the effects, health outcomes, mental health outcomes, regret rates (nonexistent) etc. Honestly it annoys me so much when terfs go 'well we just don't know, this is all so new and so nebulous' when it literally couldn't have been more well-documented and extensively researched.
@@George_Fl0yd What if they're kids who aren't trans, but who have an illness that causes them to go through precocious puberty (for example at five years old)? They need puberty blockers for purely medical reasons. That's why puberty blockers were developed. Is it wrong to give those kids puberty blockers?
@@George_Fl0yd So you don't think kids should be given any type of medication then? Because for non-trans kids who go into puberty far too early, to the point that it threatens their physical health, that's literally all puberty blockers are. It has absolutely nothing to do with gender for them. I don't think you understood what I was talking about. Google 'precocious puberty'.
@George_Fl0yd For children suffering from precocious puberty, puberty blockers are what *allow* them to remain children. As opposed to someone with a child's age and an adult's body, or a corpse if it's bad enough.
@@George_Fl0yd Can you try to read what I wrote? You misinterpreted my question to you. Again, google 'precious puberty'. You said that everyone who gave puberty blockers to kids should be put six feet under, so I asked if your rule applied when it's not about trans kids.
@ryn2844 The thing naming itself after a man murdered by police said that it would rather have someone grow up way too quickly, or die, due to precocious puberty than treat them. Because "seems more reasonable than far left parents grooming there kids into something they want him/her to be." That's an exact quote, misspellings and all.
This is a fabulous piece on transness, and is extremely valuable if only it wasn't directly seen through a disney lense. I urge you, if you can, to make an informative piece to help introduce uneducated people into the basics of queerness and transness. I know it's not your job, but you have a wonderful way with words and explain it really succinctly, and I think you could help demystify what transness really is. The more informed and wellspoken people talking about the issues, the better. Information is the greatest tool to combat ignorance and hate. Thank you, and nice work.
Growing up I would watch rom coms and wonder why all the girls went 'gaga' over the male lead. 'Sure he's cute or good looking, but really? And why was shirt ripped off again???' I had the same questions with the lead females. 'She looks pretty, but. . . ' It wasn't until a few years ago I heard the term asexual. Then I learned about different attractions. I cannot begin to describe the relief that what I had assumed was sexual attractions to certain family members was just aesthetic attraction. They looked good. If I had known about things like asexuals, and the difference between sexual and aesthetic attraction, I would have spent fewer years concerned about who I was attracted to.
As an lgbtq youth. I want to stop being seen this way bro. Im just a minor going along with my life :( I hate it. People say the generation is messed up all because we’re more open. I’m just being me. I hope this stops. I really do.
Now that there's more representation out there, who's your favorite LGBTQIA+ Disney character?🌈
Probably Luz.
Luz and Amity.
Also Pleakley.
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@@prageruwu69 I was so impressed by the Ducktales 2017 crew making Launchpad pansexual.
I consider the Trio of Underdogs in Luca to all be queer.
I had friends and family gaslight me into thinking I wasn't bi for years. I finally came out at bi this year at 30 years old, everything in my life finally clicked.
I relate to this comment a lot
The decades of life we lost pretending to be straight for other peoples comfort…
I came out as bi when I was 26 back in 2020 and the way a lot of the self-hatred I carried just melted off to reveal a person who actually wants to live and be happy.
Similar situation as someone who didn't realize I was bi until my 20s. It feels a bit cringy to admit now, but I straight-up didn't know being bi even was an option until I watched Glee when I was a preteen, and even then that show felt like it equated being bi with being flaky or indecisive. If I was taught the words earlier, I probably would have been a lot happier and healthier during high school
Not LGBTQ+ (to my knowledge at least), but finding out I had autism was a very similar experience.
Suddenly youve found that one puzzle piece that links together all those past experiences that previously just didnt make sense.
All those times you remember who you were causing real friction with what people seemed to expect from you? All suddenly makes sense.
Congrats on your enlightenment!
Saw this film with my Mom and we enjoyed it. It was unfortunate to see that the Disney film with the first truly openly gay character was so poorly promoted. As someone who grew up gay, as a kid and teen I never thought I'd see a Disney animated movie with a gay character, as a young adult it's cool to see that they have finally done it. And not only that, but the "gay" element is not Ethan's whole character, nor the whole plot. He is just gay but he has a lot of other positive character traits. That is positive for children to see because it says that being gay is just seen as something normal and doesn't make up everything about a person. I hope Disney continue to make progress in their films as time passes, and actually promote it this time.
Ik! I wish I had this when I was a kid
Absolutely... Honestly, I have not seen any promotional content about it. No ads, no trailers and no press related interviews/videos at all. I just saw some video talking about how "woke" it is but it is barely brought up, the main character just liked someone and they mention it sometimes. Just usual cutesy romantic moments that are common in a lotof movies. Nothing wrong with it except it's a guy liking another guy.
Oh that's good to know. So the right was just lying and using it for their agenda when it was actually a good movie, yikes.
@@Clairavoya You can say that for pretty much any movie now days lmao.
@@TECfan1 True lol
I'm a trans kid with a mother who has wholeheartedly bought into the anti-trans rhetoric and I just want to say thank you for educating people. Sometimes I get scared that she's right and I spiral like crazy, but stuff like this helps, it always helps. I would be trans whether I saw representation or not, and I always have been, even before I understood what I was. Your videos mean a lot to me, Marlene, thank you.
Trans (not out irl) adult here - don't listen to the comment below. You are worthy.
I'm very sorry and i hope things will get better for you friend. Your mother isn't right. She has things she needs to fix within herself and within her outdated worldview. You're identity no matter what shape it takes, is valid no matter who says otherwise. Follow what makes you happy. Listen to what comforts you in the healthiest way possible! - From one trans to another.
Just deleted the transphobic comment above and then realized it makes it look like milsthebard1085's comment was critiquing the other person who responded who was kind, so here's my awkward clarification that there used to be a transphobic comment here!
@@DreamsoundsVideo ty! I saw it and went in with positivity to counter it. Didn't think how it'd look if they got deleted lol
@@DreamsoundsVideo Lol thanks! I'm afraid that the context is all too clear for anyone who has spent any time in comments...
Something I loved about Strange World was how accepting Jaeger Clade was of his grandson Ethan. I initially thought he was going to be a huge asshole when his grandson revealed he was gay, but I'm proud to have been proven wrong. Jaeger could have given Ethan better dating advice than "put Diazo in a dangerous position and then rescue him" though.
Also, Searcher and Meridian Clade are definitely top tier Disney parents. They love and support both their son and each other, and their family dynamic is so wholesome and pure
I honestly hate Jaeger Clade, though, and I was willing to forgive Abuela Alma and Ming.
@@dinosaysrawr I agree that Jaeger is far from perfect - abandoning his son for 25 years and being upset that his ex-wife had the audacity to remarry, but at least he treated his grandson with respect. Now with Searcher, he definitely has far to go when it comes to mending that relationship
@@aetheremployeesabrina , I was pleasantly surprised and relieved by Jaeger's positive relationship with Ethan--but, then, a lot of toxic parents actually end up having healthier relationships with their grandkids, for a number of reasons.
Problematically, Searcher was the protagonist/viewpoint character of the film, and the dynamic between Searcher and Jaeger was positively poisonous for 95% of the runtime! Their ultimate reconciliation felt too little, too late, too quick, and too shallow, in light of what had happened before. I also feel like Jaeger's motives and drives weren't sympathetic enough for the audience to be willing to ultimately go, "Gee, we understand, buddy! It's okay!"
@@dinosaysrawr tbh I love his character arc. He was the embodiment of toxic masculinity but learned to do better.
(Also him shaving his beard with a piranha made me chuckle)
@@jackriver8385 , me, I wanted just a bit more from him in terms of actively acknowledging the dark and harmful side of his zeal for adventure. He didn't acknowledge or try to make up for all of the pain he'd caused Searcher.
Upon rewatch, something I didn't like about the film is how people's interactions and choices seemed more plot-driven than character-driven. Searcher and Jaeger's reunion put a *really* bad taste in my mouth from the start, and after all of their non-stop bickering from practically the word "Go," I couldn't buy that just fighting off some creatures together was enough to get them to talk. Just when we think Jaeger's starting to rethink his obsession with venturing beyond the mountains, he backslides *at the peak of the crisis.* I didn't buy that after his weird tone-deafness at the climax, he'd be inspired to turn around just by reminiscing about his family.
Searcher's character was also a little inconsistent from my perspective, and another script rewrite could've ironed out a couple of those wrinkles/contradictions.
Really, I think the message of the movie could've been, "Just because you have baggage related to your parents doesn't mean that your kids can't have a better relationship with them."
Hey. I'm Jasper. I'm sixteen years old. I'm a trans boy. And I'm tired. I'm so tired of people thinking that I am inherently evil. I'm tired of people thinking that I've been brainwashed and manipulated. It makes me so happy to get to be who I am, but people who claim to have my best interests at heart refuse to listen to me and people like me. It's exhausting to even hope that things will get better at this point.
i know it sucks a lot, and hearing all the hatecrimes getting worse makes me scared for my trans partner and myself, i dont get why people just.. randomly hate us and want to kill us just because they dont understand?? sometimes i just think that im inside some cartoon or whatever where everything gets magically better and theres no more hate or bad people in the world anymore, but it is really exhausting. i hope youll be okay, and know that you are valid no matter what man
im a trans boy too ^_^ im so tired of it all too. i tend to get myself into my own little world and think that it’s gonna be easy to transition and be myself but it’s never that easy cause I can’t even mention it around my own conservative parents. i don’t have anyone to talk to about affirming my gender and it makes me sad. :( i try to tell myself it’ll get better but I know I have to be scared for myself in this world. i wish people would wake up and see that homophobia and transphobia are just words to disguise plain meanness and not having an open mind and heart. i don’t wanna be evil, i just wanna live my life happily :(.
I'm also a trans boy and I constantly hear bills trying to be passed, shootings, people saying they are saving "healthy teenagers" from this "ideology" when I am just trans and just want to live without anyone saying they want trans people unalived. Most of my family except for my siblings are homophobic which meant I shouldn't ever talk about LGBTQ+ in general.
I do have high hopes for us but for now, it's pretty hard. Just know you are valid as hell and we can get through this :]
@@cajunking5987 Okay then I guess all of the adults and kids my age who have called me evil and sinful are just no more.
@@cajunking5987 So, you're 1) ignoring what I'm telling you about my real life experiences, 2) being transphobic, and 3) being misogynistic. You've been duped by conservative political commentators, haven't you?
Knowing the term is powerful is so true. I'm a panromantic asexual. So I easily fell head over heels into crushes, but that's where it ended. As puberty and dating expectations changed. I didn't realise the absence really. Only in hindsight
People would always ask, "would you date a trans person?" or translated "would you have intimacies with a trans person?" And if I was doing something that seemed, lacking better English, bold that to me meant I was in love with them. That we matched on an intellectual and emotional level.
Then came first year at university where my professor (proud and pregnant lesbian I think of fondly to this day) explained there was a difference between romantic and sexual orientation.
Kinda blue screened for a while.
But once I rebooted I had terms to look back at my life in evidence to see who I was more clearly.
And that power has made me very happy
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Pan ace gang!!
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Hello fellow Acespec friends! 🖤🤍💜
Ace pride, Have lovely day all!
The “developmentally appropriate “ part is sticky(intentionally) . As someone who survived “exceptional education “ in FL & went on to graduate with full college degree, the infantilization of students especially those who have nonconforming bodies, visibly or not is real and toxic. Parents don’t need more rights. Kids do need more rights. Kids need bodily autonomy. They deserve it. Pediatric cancer treatment damages fertility of children way more than Medical trans care, especially blockers. Where’s the outrage for that? Where’s the outrage for “The Ashley Treatment “? which is way more drastic than any accepted trans care for kids. Oh that’s right it was never about protecting kids. It’s always been about eugenics. 🏳️🌈♿️🏳️⚧️
When people call it "mutilation", and yet continually circumcise children right after birth for the parent(s) own convenience with no consent from the child and even having an entire religious ceremony centered around it.
@@thisistheaccountnameyou’re so right, ive never even thought about that
Why does that make it ok to hide things from parents?
“Hiding things from parents “ isn’t the goal. Treating kids as whole people with individual needs is. Children are never extension or the property of their parents. Too many parents have the lives of kids preplanned before kids are born .That’s doesn’t help anyone to grow or sustain their social needs or skills they need to realize themselves
@@thisistheaccountname it’s crazy that only Jewish people used to do it, and now it’s the entire USA
For all the complaining about "wokeness", nobody seemed to have a problem with the Minions dressing in drag for over two minutes in Minions: The Rise of Gru after everyone complained about the 5 seconds of Lightyear's same sex couple. What hypocrites
Cause they see it as a joke like, their sense of humor is so outdated any one who is perceived as “male” being dressed in feminine clothing is seen as “abnormal” and “odd” so therefor it’s funny. But if it’s taken seriously apparently it’s wrong. To them feminine men are made to be mocked not to be taken seriously.
@@lulub517
YES!
My school does a thing where we have a Homecoming Queen assembly during Homecoming. The cheerleaders dress up the senior boys in dresses w/ makeup (sometimes characters like Tinkerbell, usually they make up country-loving-girl personas) and during the assembly they dance and do whatever; pretending to twerk, doing splits, hitting the griddy, throwing candy to the little kids, whatever they think’s funny. Then at the end the adults call out the senior’s persona’s names and we scream for who we want to win.
I guess I don’t really need to add this, but: this is a conservative, small town, mostly-white Christian school in the south. Not as bad as you can get, but definitely not great.
@@can0cringe I think it’s really funny that your small conservative town throws drag shows at the high school every year lol. Living in a small conservative town is really, hard, though. I hope you’re doing okay!
@@stingrae919
I'm pretty good thanks, just trying not to end up white knighting about anything because where would that get me! But yeah they would definitely cry about drag shows even though we throw one every year lol
@@can0cringethat's suprising honestly
How can these people complain that Disney was “pushing the agenda” WHEN THE STUDIO DIDN’T BOTHER TO MARKET THEIR OWN MOVIE!!!
They just want views.
@@ExtremeWreck exactly
because homophobes are homophobes
@@juliaboskamp9666 LMAO agreed 100%.
Thank you so much for voicing why I couldn't just "be a gay man". Speaking as a straight trans woman, the dynamic and the participants in gay male relationships are so, so different from straight ones. I dated a man in a gay relationship while still closeted and it felt so wrong; I couldn't experience love and romance if I was under the pretense that I was a man. I wasn't what he wanted and the dynamic wasn't what I wanted. I never see this brought up in these discussions, so thank you.
Wait, wait- and don’t come attack me, I’m just trying to understand but… did you transition bc of your need for a relationship NOT presenting as male, or did you transition due to, well, gender dysphoria? /genq
I started transitioning in 2004, but I went back into the closet and boymoded starting in 2011 for the sake of getting work. That was when the relationship happened, I had dysphoria and realized i was trans long before. Hope that clears things up.
@@lexidarling Ohh, understood- my bad, I’m bad at reading things right lol
Thank you for explaining it so calmly!
@@crowprisun Also mtf here. Having that gay dynamic in the relationship can also be a form of dysphoria, because it’s meant to be a mlm relationship.
@@ghog__ Ah? /genq
That’s interesting actually
The parents who calling us "groomers" for just existing in movies while almost all of Disney movies show man and woman in love and kiss each other are just scared that their child will discover that they're lgbt and will not give them like 6 grandchildren
The fact that such parents exist is proof that we live in a society that encourages suppression of having opinions, thoughts, feelings & overall anything that is different. Ever wonder why we do just keep getting the same kind of movies every year without fail?
I mean, some LGBTQ people can reproduce. Also, the ones who can't can still adopt children. LGBTQ people can totally give their parents grandchildren.
@@ExtremeWreckit kind of weird if you think about it
@@ExtremeWreck because those movies sell tickets. Movies with predominately gay characters don't sell, especially when companies make their sexual preference the selling point. Wonder why Bros failed? Because no one cares you're gay. It doesn't make you special
Holy fudge, I identify as non-binary but some of this resonates so hard, especially the "I had no idea something was even happening because I have never heard a word for it naming it as an option" part.
as a 13 years old trans person, i can say that the "regret" on gender affirming care is true. everytime i try to talk about being trans with an adult, including my parents, they always keep asking questions like "did you feel pressured to?" or "you know that you can be a girl and like girls, and there's no need to turn yourself a boy because of it, right?", but they never actually accept that i am trans. i acutally just want them to accept me for who i am.
Same. I’m 17 and I’m going to be able to take T soon on my own. I don’t even wanna know what my grandparents are gonna say. Im scared, but i’m with you!
God I hate that people think ALL trans men are secretly just lesbians. I'm a trans guy, I think men are hot (in a romantic and aesthetic way), and I would definitely not be a lesbian if I wasn't trans. I like guys, I like girls, I like non binary people, I don't care.
I had this happen to me (because i have queer friends as a t person) and all i did was ask WHY they don't have tons of gay and trans friends around them. Like maybe it's not that we want to "turn" people, but because queer people (even before coming out) stick together and cis het people will never relate to us in the same way or feel the need to do so. They don't even notice they seek like-minded people, because cis het friends looks like the norm to them.
Wish you luck!
Trans people are people. Anyone who says otherwise is either delusional,or is addicted to the feeling of putting down others. It’s genuinely sickening that there are people who want to hurt others over this,another boogeyman made up by The right’s propaganda machine. To any trans people reading this,you’re worth it. Stay strong,and don’t let the bastards push you down.
You’re amazing Just by being yourselves.
💯
Disney has a history of doin' their science fiction films dirty going all the way back to the 60s--and on top of that, sadly, Strange World was just an "okay" film overall that fell disappointingly short of its (in my view) incredible potential. (This is not wholly unexpected, though, given the film's director, Don Hall, who is also known for directing Raya and the Last Dragon and Big Hero Six.) It's deeply frustrating that so-called "woke" films always end up being drafted into the eternal Culture War, and can't just be judged on the basis of their merits and flaws. (And the same goes for films that people decide are anti-woke!)
In any case, thanks for this overview of the issues in play! You are absolutely right about healthcare always involving a level of cost/benefit analysis. People are throwing trans healthcare out the window in bad faith over risks and complaints that would *never* be treated as deal-breakers when it came to other health issues! Can you imagine people wanting to ban anti-depressants entirely because they can increase suicidal ideation in some underage patients? Can you imagine people gagging about how heart surgery is just so DISGUSTING, and insinuating that it should be treated with suspicion based purely on that? Can you imagine people fretting about how chemotherapy causes people to lose their hair and feel nauseated, so maybe we shouldn't do it at all? Can you imagine people declaring some group of people to be "mentally ill" or "sick," and then inexplicably *not* wanting those "sick" people to receive the empirically-validated course of treatment for their illness, hmm? I surely can't!
I liked Strange World but is it just me or was Luca a much more gay movie? I feel like Strange World was a movie that happened to feature gay protagonist where as Luca was a movie that encapsulates as many gay movie tropes that fit the gay experience as possible (coming out, meeting individuals who get you, found family, dealing with hate crimes, falling in love, self-acceptance, and embracing your differences for what they are).
I think there should be space for each type of movie. Movies that examine the struggle of not being accepted are just as important as movies that look ahead to a time when being LGBTQIA+ is no longer something that families refuse to accept.
That's definitely valid. Even though the creator of Luca said there was nothing intentional about the gay undertones, those in the community can definitely treat it that way. However, that doesn't mean it was a "better" gay story, it was just the coming of age story. There is room for that kind of story but also the story of just existing as a gay person already out like in Strange World. The coming out doesn't always need to be the whole plot. As a gay guy it was refreshing to watch a movie with a gay character who didn't struggle with their sexuality and had a completely different story arc.
@@TECfan1((( sea monsters )))
i have yet to find a book/movie where the queer character doesn’t get accepted by their families. it really just continues to make me feel sad and left out of all of those amazing coming out experiences that my friends got, that i don’t get because of my homophobic family.
@@Altchannel2988 Even without shipping the main characters, Luca was pretty heavy with the gay parallels though. The director even said that they considered at one point making Luca and Alberto more than friends while making the movie but decided to go the platonic route, but obviously some of the people involved in making the movie were on board with the shipping. McKenna Jean Harris who was the story lead of Luca and the director if Ciao Alberto has drawn and reblogged art of the characters that's pro-LGBT.
I find it dumb when homophobic and transphobic people are always going with "we must protect the kid," meanwhile heavily damaging queer and trans minors.
And wanting 14 year olds to have babies they never cared about the children
And groom kids into heterosexuality, as they claim the LGBTQ+ community does to kids which they’ve been doing for years. They’re the biggest projectors.
Yup, and when they find some place where to feel accepted they'll always go "yOu aRe Gr0oM1nG mY kID"
Thank you for making this video. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with ME for not subscribing to everyone’s “Disney is bad cause woke and diverse” like, am I and everyone else who isn’t straight, white and cis not allowed to exist??? This movie was not perfect, but it’ll always be important to me as a gay guy who always wanted this in a Disney film. I appreciate your video for making me feel like I’m not alone
I am both pansexual and a trans woman. There's been so many different things that I've dealt with. Whether it's Florida's bs laws or when people at Club Q were murdered and injured or my parents telling me my whole super religious family will disown me if they all find out about my sexual preference and my gender identity. It's all so overwhelming that it's hard to deal with it all. But I've tried to do my part in not only protect myself but others like me. I've signed petitions to overthrow Florida's "Don't Say Gay" nonsense, I give my condolences to everyone who lost their lives at Club Q and I'm currently not talking to my parents or most of my religious family. (Which has been helpful for health and stress)
I actually saw Strange World in theaters on Thanksgiving. My parents didn't want me to go to our Thanksgiving dinner because of me being pan and trans and that my super religious grandmother wouldn't get it either. It really hurt me and I cried when they didn't want me to be a part of a family get together but I tried to make the best of it. I saw that movie in theaters and I loved it. I loved the art style, I loved Splat (who I saw as a combination of Flubber and Q-Bert) and the fact that one of the main characters was gay and had a crush a very handsome boy, was very cute. I didn't see anything bad about that at all. I only saw it once in theaters but I thought it was a great movie. I'd definitely watch it again.
Thank you for making this video, Marlene! I love watching your videos. You along with several other trans people really give me the confidence to keep going and love who I am. (Both inside and out) Besides you, my other idols are Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Lana and Lilly Wackowski, and my younger brother who's also trans.
Thank you, Marlene again! Keep being you and I will never stop supporting you. Thank you! 🏳⚧
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! what does this have to do with the comment
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! Ok but honestly shut up if your gonna be transphobic
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! She's not a man though lol. Did you mix up the definitions? I used to do that, but trans woman means she identifies as a woman, not that she transitioned from a woman :)
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! Man I was hoping you weren't going to be a troll. Have fun rotting like a trolly troll ⚰️
I've never even heard of Strange World I feel like there was a marketing problem edit: I commented this before Marlene brought up the bad advertising
For sure there was
Yeah. It's kind of impressive just how little marketing Disney has done for this movie. It genuinely feels like they had no idea what to do with it and just quietly let it die Rescuers Down Under/Treasure Planet style.
I've only heard of it because some known homophobes made videos encouraging people to not watch it... I mean id be shocked if it didn't fail 🤷🏻♀️
Something I also think is really strange about queerphobic media outlets is they often also include the fact that "wokeness" includes adding poc characters, which shouldn't be a controversial thing.
" Wokeness" in it basic term was referring to projects or media outlets using progressive and humanitarian themes as a marketing tool without bothering for the substance and accuracy of such things ( e.g. "first" Disney gay characters, the cancelled New warriors comic, Terminator: Dark fate being marketed as a feminist movie and overdoing it), unfortunately this term became highjacked by people who are just intolerant to such people and use it on anything they don't like based on their own bigotry rather than artistic integrity, so the word itself doesn't imply that's bad to have LGBTQ and racial things in something, it's just used by the wrong people
@@George_Fl0yd that's was my point, such replacements are examples of such things
Despite getting hit with a wave of Seasonal depression and s***idal thoughts, I didn’t realize how much I needed this. This year has been awful for LGBT rights / support, it’s exhausting to watch. Ive been losing hope and becoming detached. Honestly, thank you for making this video.
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I’m one of the lucky people who was able to have surgery at age 15- in the Bible Belt, with a ridiculously conservative father. After 3 years of therapy, he (and my mother of course) allowed me to, and not because he agreed with it at the time, not because we guilt tripped him, but because he understood what the alternative might have led to. At 20 years old, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. It kills me to see the laws being proposed, and the gross accusations towards parents.
Imagine: not being able to help your child without the risk of being charged with “abuse” or being labeled a groomer and/or ending up with a dead child because you legally couldn’t help them.
They want to cry about not considering parental rights, but they don’t consider the parents who want to help their children.
At the end of the day, If the risk of suicide isn’t a deal breaker to reconsider someone’s mindset about this, maybe they shouldn’t have kids.
Sorry for the life story/rant BS, I just wish people would look into this issue further before lying and gaslighting other people to support their “opinion”. Again, thank you so much for making this video. 🧡
@@cajunking5987 where is all the outrage for cis teenage boys getting surgery for gynecomastia? oh wait, you only care when it goes against your norms
as a trans man, I thought I was a lesbian for YEARS because I couldn't imagine myself in a straight relationship with a man. since then I've realized it was the "straight" part and not the "man" part that bothered me, and I am now happily with another guy :)
The same thing happened to me! I knew I was pan but not long after the dysphoria really began to set in. I thought I was lesbian for quite a while. I eventually found out I was right the first time, and something else was wrong. It wasn't that I didn't want to be in a relationship with a guy, I just didn't want to as a girl. It felt wrong. But now I'm out here living my best life as my pan trans self
@@Harudodo SAMEE I'm also pan!! and that's exactly what happened to me lol, I kept flipping back & forth between bi/lesbian/pan for a bit before I realized lmao 😂
My best friend has a black mom and white dad and he’s gay. For the first time ever, he literally saw himself in a Disney movie. I saw this Thursday night of its opening weekend and absolutely loved it! The animation was gorgeous and the characters were well defined. I’ll definitely buy it when it’s available as home media. I just hope they do make it available!
I truly hope that one day none of this will be an issue at all, like Jaeger Cade’s beautiful reaction to his grandson being gay. It was more of an issue for poor Ethan to explain how his favorite game was played!!
I have a coworker that I’ve discussed trans rights with. His heart is in the right place, but he’s bought into the conservative scare tactic that his children are in danger of being… I guess… brainwashed or something? He keeps insisting that children have been forced to transition but can’t seem to find the articles of proof when I ask for them. He’s a nice guy and as I said, his heart is in the right place. Sadly his brain has been clouded by Fox News.
32:50
“My body wasn’t mine I just talored it to what the men I wanted to be with we’re looking for”
This.
I never thought my experience of a transmasc bisexual would align so well with a trans woman
But growing up my entire gender and presentation was tailored to what men thought of me.
Who was I when people weren’t looking?
“everybody’s either gay, of color, trans”
there… there were no trans characters in lightyear… i’m beginning to think mr. podcast man didn’t ACTUALLY SEE lightyear…
And even if that was true, so? There's literally nothing wrong with that unless they were stereotyping. I feel like he'd watch a K-Drama and complain that the entire cast was asian and there was no white representation 💀
I would say “apparently everyone’s white and cis and straight” these fuckers have had all been spoon fed the same white washed straight-forced crap for years and as soon as something minor comes across that isn’t what they’re used to, they use their ape brains to go bananas on it.
@@lulub517 FR like, here : every single Disney princess movie (minus Mulan, ofc) featuring a straight couple. Not even mentioning the hundreds of cis Disney characters. Yet the second we get a little diversity it's accused of being propaganda or erasing 💀
I am a senior in a Florida highschool. I am also a library aid during one of my periods at said highschool. My teachers sometimes ask me to grab books for them that are being “looked into,” (I don’t remember the word they use but basically the book is being looked at to see if it is appropriate for highschool). Two books I have pulled are The hate you give and the girl and the sea. The hate you give was pulled for being too anti police and the girl and the sea was pulled because there was a kiss between two girls at the very end of the book. I could talk for a while about the hate you give being pulled. The people wanting to pull the book also use the argument that there is too much profanity but as a highschool we, I say much worse. The girl and the sea, on the other hand, is a short graphic novel about environmental issues which also has the main character doubting her sexuality and her neglect of her friends. Too many books have been looked into for just having a queer character. I love my librarians so much because they fight tooth and nail for books they know have no right being taken away from us. We are being censored and called unnatural for things that are a part of our lives. I’m a person of color, I’m trans, and I’m gay. They are trying to take away books that helped me become who I am.
Hi! My name is Sterling. I just wanted to say that while listening to this video, a warm feeling of reassurance washed over me. Thank you both for always making these needed pieces of media
You have an awesome name mate
4:39 “the first openly gay character?” Please, Disney, have you seen the owl house?
Girl, it took me 5m to focus because YOUR VOICE IS SO DIFFERENT 😍 It's beautiful and you must have worked SO hard to get this far. Holy fuck it's amazing, ily
fr i had no idea she was trans!!
@@cajunking5987 Go take a shower.
Thank you for bringing up the whole "I knew what I was as a kid but was never taught anything to define it" situation. I'm non-binary, and I often consider how different my childhood would have been if I actually was taught about other genders besides 'boy' and 'girl'. I recall not being happy that I was born into a male body, but also not wanting to be a girl. It would've been really great to know that I actually didn't fit into the binary all along. I hear a lot of people accuse teens who can't figure out what pronouns they feel best with or switch through gender identities as being "fake", or "attention seekers", or "not really trans", and trans youth get told that we're all confused and mislead about wo we are. I disagree with this because, sure... I tried fitting into different identities before I discovered I was non-binary, but it wasn't because I'm not non-binary or because I was overwhelmed. It's because I had no support at school or in my home at the time, and I had to go on a solo crash course throughout my entire childhood and early teen years to discover my gender identity, and even just to discover that I wasn't alone in being non-binary.
...I gotta stop writing these paragraphs in CZcams comment sections.
as a trans kid i'm scared for my future. but I'll fight for what i want and no one will stop me! >:D
as a fellow trans man.
i believe in you.
It really gets better. And though I am a bit cynical in this video, I have faith that the world is becoming a better place every day. Hang in there! Trans pride! 🏳️⚧️
Good luck & stay as safe as you can
YESS!! lets go trans besties
Ya'll can do it! Keep going strong!
I've never seen marketing for Strange World other than maybe the occasional ad here and there. I feel disney didn't hype it up and that's what made it a failure. There was more hype for Lightyear, than strange world. When you don't t hype it up, you don't make much.
I think… not committing to acceptance (trying to stay in a safe zone to please everyone aka not lose money) is more harmful, sincerity resounds with every human.
Indeed. Not doing anything at all is just as harmful. It allows for complacency where the antis can just walk over everyone as they please. You have to be for *all* human rights or for "specific humans" rights. The latter isn't a side any decent person should be in if they're really as open minded as they might claim to be.
Similar Disney films like "Strange World", have never done well to begin with.
Then there the almost nonexistent advertising and people just not spending as much or going to the theaters as often as they did before the pandemic.
I loved "Strange World". I loved the art, the scene, the emphasis on "family", the dog, how instead of trying to do what other films have done in the past where one of the parents disappear and then come back and get back with their partner this film instead shows the mother having moved on, I especially loved the portrayal of "empathy", for other species, and yeah I loved the representation on all levels.
As a trans girl, I keep getting scared for my future every week because it seems that people just keep getting angrier about us trans folks, and now that Matt Walsh has literally advocated for concentration camps, I am scared that people are genuinely considering genocide. I just hope that things turn around for the better I am really just, terrified
sitting here editing and massively grateful for a new banger video to keep me sane while I work :)
when i found out strange world dint do well i just KNEW people were gonna make those "get woke go broke" videos and i was right.
im so tired man. just let us have rep without calling it ~woke propaganda~ or whatever.
You realize Disney dosent care about lbgtq+ right?
@@sethyredninja1422 The higher ups definitely, but that goes for like fifty percent of the world. A lot of Disney artists and animators do care but they have little to no say because capitalism rules our world, so money goes before people. Who likes money more than people? Conservatives. You get way more money grifting to the brainless group than you do people who care about human rights.
10:25 can you imagine being the kid who found out their dad cancelled their Disney trip because he's transphobic
And imagine if they were trans :(
That's an excruciatingly long pause at 21:12, and my heart breaks. I wish I could snap a world into existence where there would be no hate, and that we are past the pettiness of rhetoric.
I’m so happy you’ve been talking about your experiences with transitioning and how it relates to everything happening around us in the zeitgeist of current politics. It’s already such a personal journey for you and putting it all out there for us to hear about takes immense courage. I hope more people listen to you and other trans people so that we all can learn to empathize.
I already enjoy your deep dives into the obscure and not-so-obscure Disney music and your personal touches make that much better.
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm sixteen, non-binary, and so, so tired of the hatred from people who believe that I exist solely because of a woke agenda or mental illness. (My mental illness is NOT related to my transness!!!) This year has been hard because even though I live in a liberal state, I am still affected by the distinct rise in homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that we've been seeing all year. I fear for my trans brothers, sisters, and siblings in less liberal areas, whose health is being politicized and restricted. I fear for myself as well, because the hospital nearest to me that offers gender affirming care for minors (Which doesn't really even go beyond hormone blockers until they're adults) recieved bomb threats recently. Even though it's in a liberal state, and even though it is a children's hospital.
I'm scared, but I also have hope. Because this hatred and fear brings us backward, we know that forward motion is possible. We know it's possible t o be better than we are, and so we need to keep pushing for that. I know I, for one, am going to continue to fight as hard as I possibly can for the rights of everyone around me.
Sending lots of love. I hope you’re okay and I wish you luck.
@@Sanitised Thank you. I wish you the very best. Stay safe out there! And good luck in your endeavors.
My god, imagine threatening a children's hospital. That's beyond messed up. They really just proved they don't actually care about "the children", huh?
As a young bi transfem, it's been... Interesting, to say the least. When i came out to my parents they instantly asked me if I liked watching Vice Ganda (a very popular gay tv person here in the Philippines) and it instantly left a bad taste in my mouth, because I knew they thought that being gay and being trans is the same thing, it especially doesn't help when we only have one word for them, "bakla", it's been really infuriating, because my attraction leads to women more than men and idk, it's just been really, really infuriating...
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! You're right! IWNBAW! Likewise, your dad will never come back!
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! Sure, sure
@The Movie Sonic Smelly Poot Show! No, and i'm too lazy to check
@@d1ts321 FREAK
This is so fucking good. Keep up the good work. Some straight people are irrational or they just don’t have the right sources. And that stuff shoved down there throat. Here’s to hoping for a future where people can just be people.
Whoa... The narrator is a trans woman? (First time viewer here.) Being in transition myself, I'm super impressed by her vocal presentation.
Thank you for this video, your insight and your knowledge helps bring attention to a very terrifying part of society. Luckily enough more people are being able to express themselves how they want, whether that is being gay, trans, pansexual, etc. but having people always try and inhibit your expression is just downright evil. If only those who have true power in this world can stop perpetuating this anti-gay, especially now with anti-trans, rhetoric. I am not gay or trans but I have always wanted to find ways to understand and find ways in order to be more open about my support for the LGBTQ+ community as an ally. Again, thank you for your work and I am sure many people will appreciate you covering this major topic. Thank you.
i thought the queer rep in strange world was actually quite good, it wasn't in Ethan's main character trait and everyone (even jaeger, who was in his 60s during most of the film) was supportive of him. It should've gotten more promotion tbh, it was a good film.
Stopping the video a minute in to demand that you drop your voice training regimen 😦 like my jaw is unhinged. Your voice is so resonate and warming!
Your voice is so dang beautiful, wonderful job!
Before Strange World was released, the news talked about how the farmer Clade had a daughter who is a lesbian, but when the movie was released, it was revealed that the speculated daughter was actually a boy named Ethan, and it made me wonder what made the media imagine that the character is female? Or was there a gender swap somewhere during the scripting where Ethan and Diazo became male even though they were originally meant to be female?
I haven't even watched this video yet and I can already guess why Strange World failed; it wasn't promoted. Literally everyone I've spoken to had no idea the film even EXISTED until Journalists started talking about it bombing.
It’s odd to me that anyone would say “trans women are women” yet not be able to handle having their own child be LGBTQ+
It's cause they view being LGBT as inehrintly sexual.
@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain transGENDER
@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans. LGBT
@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain hetorSEXUAL
@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain HeteroSEXUAL. Following your lovely word logic we should ban straight people from being round kids.
Also, TransGENDER isn't sexual. Neither is the romatic orientations. HomoROMATIC, aROMANTIC, biROMANTIC. Based on the simple fact people seem fine with kids watching a film where a prince falls in love with a princess (romance), then there should be 0 problem if it's 2 princes or 2 princesses.
I have to wait a couple days to see it on the streaming service, but I can't say if Strange World was just a hard film to market. They did a poor job hyping up the movie, they released it directly in-between their tentpole Black Panther and Avatar movies, and I have yet to see a piece of merchandising of any kind, outside of one ink reveal coloring book. Personally, I wanted to see it, but couldn't make the time for it and rather wanted to see Violent Night and could only do one. And I get the fact Chapek wanted it to fail so it could go faster to streaming because that worked so well with Encanto (which had promotion and merchandising even before it hit Disney+, BTW). As for Lightyear, I can't imagine the tepid reviews did anything to help. That one I did get a chance to see, and I can indeed see why it never caught on. They tried too much to make it a live action film, which works in universe, but doesn't so much in our reality. Plus, they claimed it was Andy's Star Wars, forgetting Star Wars is Sci-Fi fantasy, and they made the thing too grounded. It did feel like a 90's Sci-Fi movie, but in the vein of Armageddon or the other one with the same plot. Plus, that Zurg reveal kinda pissed me off, and I can't imagine anyone else liked it as much as the filmmakers.
They clearly didn’t give a shit with the execution or promotion.
Holy crap, that movie has an OPENLY and PROUDLY GAY PROTAGONIST? i gotta head right over to disneyplus and get me some popcorn
all jokes aside, the fact that a movie with disney's first queer character to be done justice in representation did absolutely horrible is just heartbreaking.
I love this. Thanks for doing real research and showing your sources. I've come to learn that I'm usually on the wrong side of an argument if my side starts saying, "don't even look at what they're saying, it's too dangerous." Heaven forbid I actually think, right?
I absolutely despise how these kinds of people will blame representation for why a movie flopped. When there are factors like theaters dying and the movies themselves overall maybe just not being very good writing wise and in spite of representation being there
omg i'm also a trans person who was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis lmao. i was diagnosed when i was around 2 or 3 and have been on several medications for it for the majority of my life. it's crazy to see how many people will jump to saying that i'll regret testosterone or that it's too dangerous to take (at 19 years old) when i have literally been on a low-dose chemotherapy medication that could potentially ruin my liver and another medication that increases my chances of getting skin cancer for juvenile arthritis for YEARS and no one ever stopped to question whether those ones were too dangerous for me as a literal child.
I knew I was trans since I was about 5, but didn’t know there was a word for how I felt and who I am until 10 years later. Finding out I wasn’t broken or alone was so reassuring and comforting. My family was confused and a bit iffy at first, but once they saw how much happier and confident I was after coming out, they welcomed me with open arms. I’m not religious, but I was raised in a Christian home, but even with them being religious, my family loves and accepts me, and I’m so grateful. My mom said that looking back, there were a lot of signs of who I was as a kid, and says that if she could go back and help me start my journey sooner, she would ❤
Transphobes love to say it’s “just a phase” lmao well, Martin, I’ve been on T for 4 years, had top surgery 2 years ago, and have been living as me for 10 years, so that’s one helluva long phase 😂
excellent work, Marlene. hoping you got a nice break afterward from researching all that hate. I really like the font choices and the additional footage you (?) shot too.
i think the lack of advertising is what truly did this film in, i haven't even heard of it until now :p
TRANS RIGHTS!
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@@cajunking5987 barely… :(
@@cajunking5987 prob for the best I’m not looking for argument
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My town's theater listed this as PG-13, I wonder why 🙄
Honestly I've never even heard of this movie. No ads or anything
19:31 I'm a trans student who went to school in California in LAUSD they would allow us to change our names in the system to our preferred names but it required parental consent because if they called our parents in an emergency and used our preferred name (as that would be all that would show up in the system) it could result in confusion and our parents possibly denying it's their kid so alternatively you could just have a counselor email all your teachers asking to use your preferred name the only downside being on a school ID or document it would be your legal name
So needing parent consent for a system name change is more of a safety issue regardless there's always going to be the issue of being accidentally outed (which happened to my friend when the teacher emailed their parents not knowing they weren't aware of the name change)
I love getting pelted with homophopic ads through this entire video, like seriously youtube why
Ugh. Thanks for letting me know - If you remember the name of the companies or websites, I think I can prevent future ads from them on this video. Totally no worries if not though
@@DreamsoundsVideo I can't remember the name but it was an ad for a documentary about how the blm movement donated a ton of money towards drag and sex workers or something. Which, yeah duh but it was skewing it in a negative tone
12:36 i live in a fairly liberal state and in 8th grade, we had a two day unit in health class about gender, sexuality, and contraceptives. my mother decided i was not to participate in class for those days. she had me sit outside with “focus on the family” books about sex and gender. and i still ended up queer and trans. not teaching kids about this stuff isn’t going to prevent them from being queer/trans, its just going to make them hate themselves more.
Ok, beyond the actual contents of this video, Marlene, your voice is gorgeous! 💚 Do you have any tips? (As far as the content of the video, I'm so tired. Sigh.)
Just started the video and wanted to say wow! Really impressed at your voice training. You sound so comfortable.
You're always so eloquent in your videos and the things you share often help me reflect more on my own thoughts and experiences. Thanks for making another fantastic video! I hope you're doing well :)
I am literally tired of this ‘ONG DISNEY IS BECOMING WOKE ME NO LIKEY’ crap pls I just wanted to be represented properly pls :,|
As a non-out ftnb person, I’m scared. But I know once I do come out (WHEN I AM READY BECAUSE IT IS MY CHOICE) I’ll fight for my rights
Wow huge difference, your voice is so pretty 😍 Like some old fashion radio host, that strict lady with a kind heart at 7 pm, talking about opening of a new school, so calming
Okay that's it. I'm just going to say it; one of the biggest reasons why nobody likes "Strange World" was because there was absolutely no reason why one of the main characters was gay. There I said it and as far as I can tell, that's literally it. This detail could've not been shown at all and the movie would literally not change whatsoever.
This video is literally the first I’m hearing of Strange World, which is wild because gay, animated Disney media should definitely be a top tag in whatever data set they use to target ads at me.
I shouldn't be so surprised that there was an ad for matt walsh’s idiotic “documentary” on this video :(
Until literally this moment I didn’t even know there was a gay character in it, we’re in an economic recession. We can’t afford to go to the box office.
I only knew it came out yesterday, there was almost no ads either
And streaming discourages people from traveling to a theater
im glad someone else acknowledges the trans-feeling meaning behind how far ill go, i dont know why it took me so long to see it, i only just added it to my trans playlist a few months back lol
it does really suck being trans in a world that sees that as every version of sin they can think of, though. one day itll be better, it has to be, but that day really cant come soon enough.
Great video! Here's hoping Pixar's Elio hits the stride again with its really obvious queer and internet metaphor and makes some of the subtext actually text too.
Your personal story at the end really struck me because it is so similar to my own story. I am a gay trans man, and I always knew that I liked men, halfway because of societal standards. But I always felt sad and envious when I realized that I would never love men like a man like the (very few well represented) gay men I saw on TV. In middle school, I knew I was some flavor of gay, so I said "I might be bi" It wasn't until high school that I encountered trans people in my friends and classmates, and not at all in media. And it wasn't until the pandemic after I graduated that I had time to think, and to realize who I actually was. Perhaps if I had had the language earlier, I wouldn't have been so sad in middle school, thinking I could never have what I wanted, trying desperately to prove myself as masculine enough to be what I didn't know I was yet. Great video!
The thing is that, Disney didn’t Market the movie at all. When something isn’t advertised people will not know about it, they will not know when it will be in theaters. I liked Strange World, because it made a very good message about co-existing with the environment. Taking what you have and making the world around you better than it was before. That should be the message that you get from the movie.
STRANGE WORLD IS OUT????
It’s been in theaters since November, but it will be on Disney+ on Friday!
@@DreamsoundsVideo Whaaaaaaat
I literally saw no advertisements at all
Is there no hype or was i super oblivious
i hadnt heard about the movie until people were talking about how no one went to see it, which was incredibly shocking because i dont even have ad block and i never saw a single ad for the film
The first time at 15 that a friend asked me about my sexuality, I told them I was attracted to men, but in the way a guy likes men. I didn't tell them I was role-playing as a man and going under a male name online every day, so even though they said the answer about my sexuality made sense, they were still shocked when I came out as a trans man a few years later. We're not erasing gay people by being ourselves - as you said, many of us are actually trying to embrace being gay. I don't think the people pushing the narrative against this actually care about gay people in the first place.
i think some of these people who are talking about people “turning the kids trans”, or even that their “forcing” people to get gender affirmation surgery need to talk to actual trans kids before saying these things.
The biggest reason for some of this movie failing at the box office is a combination of pandemic is still on going and we are just starting to get back to fully normal. People know that the movies will be on Disney plait eventually as well. So many ppl got Disney plus partly bc of the pandemic and bc of marvel shows. Light year being a flop was some of those reasons combined with ppl thinking it’s not worth it to see a movie that is profiting off of toy story in the theaters. A lot of ppl were tired of things not being original. I think some of it was after ppl heard abt the gay kiss that was a second long. Strange world was sabotaged from the beginning. It was sandwich between two other big movies in a different series. It was released the day before some ppl celebrate thanksgiving. Ppl likely wouldn’t have much time anyway. Ppl were more focused on other movies and also the advertising for Strange World was terrible.
It is ironic that with Strange World ppl try to say the reason they are upset abt the character being gay is because he is 16 and is a minor. They showed that isn’t actually true with Lightyear they complained abt adults being gay. This proves so much that they were never concerned abt the kids and that they are just homophobic
I can definitely understand where you are coming from for me, I still prefer women, but I discovered I was trans and was worried about who I was as I never felt masculine and was in the wrong body and two years ago, I decided to start transitioning and I have no regret starting this journey I still have a long way to go but every day is a single step.
I was never taught trans stuff in kindergarten but i'm still trans as hell lol
The only reason I didn’t see this movie was the character designs. It evokes some kind of deep fear in me. The eyes are the main reason. It’s uncanny valley for me. But this video made me want to watch it, I’ll check it out
Same
If I was to take a guess, it's cause the designs look better in 2D. A lot of times, translating a 2D design into 3D can lead to some funkiness. This is actually more common than you think, esspecially when the 3D look is going for a realistically textured style.
But hey, that might just be my preference for 2D peaking through.
The film opens with a song that is animated in a 2D comic book art style reminiscent of hand-drawn Disney films, and I desperately wish the entire film looked like that
Puberty blockers have also been used in trans kids since the 80's, not just cis kids. First done by Vu center of expertise for gender dysphoria. Read Alex Bakker's book 'The Dutch Approach' for a detailed history, including interviews with the clinicians who did that, and an interview with the very first patient (a trans guy now in his 50's) to receive that treatment.
The starting point of puberty blockers for trans teens is extremely well documented, and the teenagers who received the treatment were followed by VU researchers for decades afterwards, logging the effects, health outcomes, mental health outcomes, regret rates (nonexistent) etc.
Honestly it annoys me so much when terfs go 'well we just don't know, this is all so new and so nebulous' when it literally couldn't have been more well-documented and extensively researched.
@@George_Fl0yd What if they're kids who aren't trans, but who have an illness that causes them to go through precocious puberty (for example at five years old)? They need puberty blockers for purely medical reasons. That's why puberty blockers were developed. Is it wrong to give those kids puberty blockers?
@@George_Fl0yd So you don't think kids should be given any type of medication then? Because for non-trans kids who go into puberty far too early, to the point that it threatens their physical health, that's literally all puberty blockers are. It has absolutely nothing to do with gender for them.
I don't think you understood what I was talking about.
Google 'precocious puberty'.
@George_Fl0yd
For children suffering from precocious puberty, puberty blockers are what *allow* them to remain children. As opposed to someone with a child's age and an adult's body, or a corpse if it's bad enough.
@@George_Fl0yd Can you try to read what I wrote? You misinterpreted my question to you. Again, google 'precious puberty'.
You said that everyone who gave puberty blockers to kids should be put six feet under, so I asked if your rule applied when it's not about trans kids.
@ryn2844
The thing naming itself after a man murdered by police said that it would rather have someone grow up way too quickly, or die, due to precocious puberty than treat them. Because "seems more reasonable than far left parents grooming there kids into something they want him/her to be." That's an exact quote, misspellings and all.
Your voice is so beautiful
This movie had NO promotion. No buzz buildup in the weeks and months beforehand. I remember the buzz for Lilo & Stitch, for example, but not this.
Amazing video. Did I tear up at that one picture at the end, with the parent holding a "I love my trans kid" board? Yeah.
I was kinda hoping you would sing "They're the Clades!" from Strange World at the end 😅
Wonderful video!
OMG this was great but I didn't expect you to start SINGING at the end! I was cought so off gaurd😳 your singing is so PRETTY ! Have a wonderful day :)
"Oh no queer people are trying to get rights, what are we going to do?" Ok Idea, lets give them rights? Anyone?
This is a fabulous piece on transness, and is extremely valuable if only it wasn't directly seen through a disney lense. I urge you, if you can, to make an informative piece to help introduce uneducated people into the basics of queerness and transness. I know it's not your job, but you have a wonderful way with words and explain it really succinctly, and I think you could help demystify what transness really is. The more informed and wellspoken people talking about the issues, the better. Information is the greatest tool to combat ignorance and hate. Thank you, and nice work.
Growing up I would watch rom coms and wonder why all the girls went 'gaga' over the male lead. 'Sure he's cute or good looking, but really? And why was shirt ripped off again???' I had the same questions with the lead females. 'She looks pretty, but. . . ' It wasn't until a few years ago I heard the term asexual. Then I learned about different attractions. I cannot begin to describe the relief that what I had assumed was sexual attractions to certain family members was just aesthetic attraction. They looked good. If I had known about things like asexuals, and the difference between sexual and aesthetic attraction, I would have spent fewer years concerned about who I was attracted to.
As an lgbtq youth. I want to stop being seen this way bro. Im just a minor going along with my life :( I hate it. People say the generation is messed up all because we’re more open. I’m just being me. I hope this stops. I really do.
i hope this isn't weird but i absolutely love your voice, it's so soft and calming
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