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Actually, I think he's making a fairly valid point... sort of. At least, with numbers 1, 2, sort of 5, and somewhat 6. People (not necessarily Conservatives) tend to cry "PC AGENDA!!" when they catch wind of a gay character debuting in a show or movie (a la Beauty and the Beast, Supergirl, a few Disney XD shows, and I'm pretty sure Steven Universe is in that lot), and that's just annoying, pretentious, and spergy. I still have yet to figure out what the "gay agenda" that a lot of fundie Christians and Conservatives keep crying out about.
In fact, I might make a thread about that just for the lulz, "What is the Gay Agenda?
The thing that he's NOT (objectively) right about, is 3, and 4. If LGBT representation wasn't handled very well in Steven Universe (not saying it is or isn't, I don't watch the show), then chances are, Steven Universe wouldn't have as big of a following as it currently has, and it wouldn't be praised and lauded by all the people who watch it as some kind of beacon for LGBT people to swim to. In fact, Jerry's the first SocJus type that seems to hate it, although he has his own (very poorly thought-out, even by someone who doesn't watch the show's standards) reasons for hating it. And something he needs to understand is that if HE doesn't like the way something is handled on a show, that does NOT mean that the entirety of the LGBT community has the same problem. Adding to the fact that Jerry has very specific and often very trivial problems with TV shows.
EDIT: He even said it himself, albeit in a different context.
The experiences of one LGBT person are not the experiences of every LGBT person, and to treat them as such a monolith is extremely disrespectful.
This can be applied to the MLP episode Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep (the one he had a massive spergfest about because he thought it was promoting self-harm), since he tried to take an objective stance on the episode and convince everyone that it was doing whatever he thought it was from his fairly lousy interpretation of it.
He makes another good point here. I especially like that last paragraph.
This idea that being a thing and having expertise on the thing are synonymous is extremely harmful, because it often leads to people being afraid to criticize the way they behave or write. Being an LGBT creator doesn’t make you a GOOD creator. The experiences of one LGBT person are not the experiences of every LGBT person, and to treat them as such a monolith is extremely disrespectful.
Being an LGBT/female creator doesn’t make you a GOOD creator.



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