Anonymous
04/17/2023 09:28
Subject: Re:Molly Kearney
Anonymous wrote:Nothing against Molly here, I’m sure they’re hilarious and deserves the opportunity and I look forward to seeing what the can do.
But after a rash of female cast members departing over the last couple years, including Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, and Melissa Villaseñor, is is disappointing to me that the new cast members are three men and non-binary person. The show’s head writers, who also host weekend update, are men. It’s produced by a man. And now the cast is composed of 11 men, 6 women, and one non-binary person. Oh, and while the men in the cast are relatively diverse (they better be, given there are twice as many of them), there are only two women of color on the show.
It’s a show about popular culture. Are there not enough women in popular culture to merit keeping them in the cast? Is the old “there are no funny women” trope still alive and kicking?
+100
But while we can say all this on an anonymous forum, saying it out loud in the real world would get us criticized as somehow unsupportive of the casting they did choose. Unsupportive at best, biased at worst, that's what we'd hear if we voiced this around a lot of people I know. Sadly. It's feeling lately as if cis women (of any sexuality) are looked on as "You've had your day already, you made your gains in society, you're fine now and it's others' turn" in a lot of entertainment and media.
Anonymous
10/13/2022 06:55
Subject: Molly Kearney
Anonymous wrote:Practically speaking, what is definition of queer then?
Queer is an umbrella term that includes anyone LGBTQIA+. Anyone can identify as queer or choose not to identify as it. The point an earlier poster made is that some older people find the term offensive because it was levied at them as an insult in their childhood. Many younger people choose to identify as queer because the slur has been reclaimed.