@Pandora said in Fandom and entitlement:
like gays are a distraction that had better have a good excuse for existing.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Clearly the public is divided on certain subjects, and with that has come a bit of division on what people want to see on screen.
I think people forget sometimes that these movie studios are in the business of trying to grab as much money as possible when a movie is released, so they try to hit that sweet spot where as many people as possible will tell TAKE MY MONEY. Out of focus groups, polls, etc they try to digure out demographically what will track well with audiences. If 80% of the people polled said "I dont care if the relationship on screen is LGBTQ+, but would rather not see sex on the screen" and 20% said "I would not see this movie unless there's a sex scene", the smart movie studio goes with the 80% (just an example).
I think people sometimes read waaaaaay too much into casting decisions or screentime decisions as being about social politics and representation, when it's probably more accurate to say that in INDIE production there's more of that and in MAJOR studios it's a lot more...demographics and cash intake forecasting.