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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 83 - Disney Will Feature An Openly Gay Character

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Left is mad that the actor portraying a gay character in a new Disney film is not himself gay. They're also mad that the actress portraying a lesbian Batwoman is not herself lesbian enough. Here we see two facts demonstrated: 1) Identity politics is insane. 2) The Left will never be satisfied, no matter how much ground is surrendered to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So for the first time ever, Disney is going to feature an openly gay character in a movie.

0:36.9

The upcoming film titled The Jungle Cruise, which will be based on a theme park ride, presumably

0:44.5

a theme park ride called The Jungle Cruise. I don't know, just my deductive reasoning there.

0:50.3

And of course, all great films have been based on theme park rides. But this one is being

0:55.6

built as a turning point for the company. And it will be different from the, you might

1:02.9

say, the more subtle homosexuality that has appeared in other Disney movies. For instance,

1:08.1

the recent Beauty and the Beast remake. There was a great deal made ahead of time before

1:13.4

the movie came out, while it was being marketed. We heard a lot about the gay elements in this

1:17.7

movie. And that was supposed to be a turning point, this big deal. But in that case, it turns

1:23.0

out that it was merely implied that a male character had an erotic obsession with another

1:29.5

male character, which to me, at a minimum, seems like an extremely unnecessary plot point

1:37.9

to put into a children's movie. That's just me. If I, if I were producing a children's

1:42.6

movie, there isn't any point where I would stop and say, now, hold on a second, everybody,

1:48.0

maybe this male character should have an erotic obsession with that one. Maybe we should

1:51.5

include that into, because it's a children's movie. And I would just think, why, why do

1:56.2

we need erotic obsessions really of any kind in a children's movie? But that's, again,

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