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A film can be expensive enough to prioritize the profit to compensate its expenses in finishing the film and much more is needed by the television to sustain a long-term production and broadcast cost. EDWIN: With the rise of fight for LIGHT rights across the globe, the media is in fact one of front-liners in raising awareness towards. And it is inevitable that this campaign is played-up as another platform for profit making. Media promotes the LIGHT community in a framed view. KENT: We can see these in a lot of LIGHT themed scenes, from television series, mainstream and independent films.
Media has become like a cookie cutter in the television scene, “cutting’ the perception of Lasts into a simpler and incomplete version to the audience. There are different themes of gay characters portrayed in films and in television. One prominent example is the flamboyant parlors type, adorned with all of the brightest color combination and big adornments decorated all over their body. They are portrayed often as treated without respect, and often as the center of joke in a sitcom, or comedy film. EDWIN: In a general sense, the LIGHT representation in visual media is seen as overly remissions, flashy and incredibly bold.
According to research, these characters are often viewed as sexually active, opportunistic, and not loyal to their partners or has the tendency to be polygamous. Naturally, this portrayal defies the societal norm that relationships must be heterosexual; that a man is for a woman and vice versa. This makes the ideal unacceptable to some societies and is further given a negative light through the attributing the characters as polygamous, sexually active, provocative. KENT: There are also films in which it implicitly injects an LIGHT theme in their outputs. For example, in X-Men, the mutants represent the LIGHT community.
Not only the society don’t accept them but also the actions of the government is not at par on how others see actions regarding the “abnormalities” of these mutants. That’s how society view LIGHT before especially in conservative countries. EDWIN: Even in News, an article in Phillips on October 1 7 about the Jennifer Lauded case repeatedly refer to the transgender woman as a ‘he, him, & his’ instead of the appropriate term ‘she, her & hers’. This still considers Lauded as a male, which is supposed to be, in a gender sensitive language, a transgender woman.