um but the faces of the celebrities are the reaction to homphobic questions, excuses or sentences so I don’t see your problem: Non-homophobic actresses_actors reacting disapprovingly to homophobia.
I see your point now, but frankly I think it’s a bit more of stretch. My first reaction was similar to Michael’s: There’s a narrative instinct to presume that the person with the printed line is thinking/saying it, rather than presuming they are REacting to an unpictured or outside source saying it TO them. It has nothing to do with the content of the message (any message), it’s just the way people tend process text & pictures together in that format: Think about the from the layouts of comics & graphic novels. It’s not like TV, where you can tell a… Read more »
This would have been a lot wittier if they hadn’t gratuitously appropriated the faces of non-homophobic celebrities to illustrate it. Doing that just makes it…nasty.
um but the faces of the celebrities are the reaction to homphobic questions, excuses or sentences so I don’t see your problem: Non-homophobic actresses_actors reacting disapprovingly to homophobia.
I see your point now, but frankly I think it’s a bit more of stretch. My first reaction was similar to Michael’s: There’s a narrative instinct to presume that the person with the printed line is thinking/saying it, rather than presuming they are REacting to an unpictured or outside source saying it TO them. It has nothing to do with the content of the message (any message), it’s just the way people tend process text & pictures together in that format: Think about the from the layouts of comics & graphic novels. It’s not like TV, where you can tell a… Read more »
This would have been a lot wittier if they hadn’t gratuitously appropriated the faces of non-homophobic celebrities to illustrate it. Doing that just makes it…nasty.