So.... I just got done watching Lindsay "Nostalgia Chick" Ellis' video on Disney through a Queer lens. If you haven't watch it, go do it. I'll wait.
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So a lot of talk there how Disney villains are coded gay and ectera ectera, now I have a question and it follows a personal experience of mine. Back when GTAIV came out, I came to the two missions in the game that certain around selling and then later revenge on buyers of the jewels. Now I play the game and I'm shocked to see the buyers are, presumably, orthodox Jews based solely on their style of dress. I sat there, watching the scene expecting some grand stereotype to be displayed that weren't. Even when allegedly backstabbed by them not a single character utters a racial slur to my knowledge. I recall I walked away from that part of the game thinking how progressive that was, to be able to slip them into that role and not make even reference to their racial denomination. Perhaps I'm wrong and it was anti-Semitic but I didn't read it that way, and if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me.
So suppose we had a straight up Disney film, with an openly gay villain character who's sexuality bared nothing on the plot. Is that by it's very nature, a negative because he is the villain or should it be considered a positive due to his antagonistic role being unrelated to his sexuality? Is it morally okay to have villains with different sexual orientation, or race, or religion?