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Commentary: 'The Maze Runner' And Male Screen Relationships
With the new clip The Maze Messenger opening this weekend, First Coast Link pop culture philosophy contributor Nicolas Michaud has thoughts on the portrayal of men and women in popular media.
There has been a recent trend of exhibiting young women as heroes in films like The Need Games,Maleficent and Divergent. The Maze Runner, a new movie based on a popular book series by James Dashner, will return adolescent men to the starring role. In fact, The Maze Runner almost has no women in it at all.
Because of this, The Maze Runner doesn't pass the Bechdel test, the gender bias test that asks us to consider if books, films, and TV shows do three things:
- Does it own at least two female characters?
- Do they talk to each other?
- When they converse, do they speak about something other than men?
It takes only a moment to realize that most of our films do not come even nearby to passing the Bechdel test. This is why having a string of films like The Hunger Games series and Divergent has been a nice thing, because these films show new women that they can be mighty people who deal with problems beyon
Even before Hagrid delivered Harry’s first Hogwarts letter, the realm of the fantastical had me in its thrall. As a child I remember devouring Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne, Bagha Byne films—about two ostracized musicians who are blessed with magical powers by a ‘King of Ghosts’. While my love for the fantasy genre remains unabated, what disappoints me is that it does not have greater queer voice. When, a few years earlier, J.K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was indeed gay, it almost felt like a gimmick thrown at the realization of her substantial queer fan base. It feels prefer such a missed opportunity because the very element of fantasy lends itself to subverting the conventions of a normative world.
Then I stumbled across the Netflix series “The Sandman”, which was adapted from Neil Gaiman’s comic manual series of the equal name. The Sandman aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), is one of the seven ‘Endless’—eternal beings who control over various aspects of human life like, Want (Mason Alexander Park), Despair (Donna Preston) and Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). At the very outset, Dream is inadvertently captured by a group of occultists led by Roderick Burgess (Charles
A “Confirmed Homosexual” Walks Into a Maze
Four and a half pages into the first story, the vivid image of a middle-aged Bengali jethu pops into my head一fountain pen in one hand, beedi in the other, cackling away at his past escapades, both sexual and otherwise—and I have to pause and chuckle along for a bit. Because that’s just what Krishnagopal Mallick’s writing makes you do, giggle with him, in slightly dazed awe. As you sit next to this ‘confirmed homosexual’ on one of his favourite benches around Madhab Babu’s pond and listen to him talk about queerness and Kolkata in the alike breath, it seems appreciate they simply couldn’t live as two separate entities. And indeed, Mallick’s Calcutta is inextricable from his queer joy, whether it is his detailed examination of College Square as a cruising spot in the late 90s or his youthful exploits in the bylanes of Harkata in the 50s. As Niladri R Chatterjee, the devoted translator of Mallick’s voice, tells us in his delicious introduction, had he been alive today, Mallick would have been a “laughing, swearing, mischievous, indefatigably prolific 85-year-old” and I can’t help but wish he could’ve had a good old guffaw at how his storie
I was gonna ignore this, and I’m not trying to “start drama,” but this cut me. This HURT me.
This response means well, but is actually very hurtful. This keeps happening. How the hell is Chloe entity bisexual far fetched? I’m so tired of people saying this. It’s not. It seems to me you have a little idea of what bisexuality is and who we are. If Chloe having the capability of organism attracted to two or more genders makes you wanna scream, that’s kinda biphobic. I bet if you met me out of here you’d never guess I was multi-attracted . You can’t know just by looking. You can’t. Chloe could EASILY be bisexual. You don’t include to ship her with a woman, she doesn’t have to kiss or sleep with women. All bisexuality is possibility of attraction to two or more genders! That’s it.
It has nothing to perform with Lauren. I contain always thought Chloe is bisexual. And tbh, “who needs confirmation.” um affirmation means a lot of LGBT people and headcanons mean a lot, but it isn’t the equal. Lucifer is a present with multiple bi/pan main characters. Which is truths. We gravitate toward each other. And if you don’t think it’s practical, it is not your place to talk unless you are pansexual/bisexual.
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The Maze Runner Characters, and their sexualities, according to me.
Thomas: Bisexual, a bit more to the gay side (he was totally smitten with Newt (or Minho, whatever floats your boat).) but I think we can all consent that he had really huge dorky crushes on both Teresa and Brenda
Newt: Gayyy (he is very aware of it.) (He was the only guy who was properly, full out same-sex attracted, I think.)
Minho: Pansexual. (But you hold to be extremely attractive to trap his attention.)
Gally: Demisexual. (Unpopular opinion but, I think he had a thing for Ben and then moved on to Minho...)
Alby: Asexual. (I don't even know why, he's the type of guy that would find sexual connections repulsive, I think.)
Ben: closeted gay. (No one really was sure about his sexuality)
Winston: Straight?? Idk. I think linear (he maybe had a sorta aesthetic attraction to boys? Like he liked admiring them? Overall I think he was too engaged slaughtering animals to really give this a thought)
Frypan: Linear (had a biiig crush on Teresa)
Chuck: the world may never know
Jeff: vertical. (Let me announce you, it was really hard for him to analyze Teresa without blushing, I mean god, she was be