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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I restored most of entries and sentences, but I'm not sure if the entry he removed in Bait-and-Switch Lesbians is a legit example of this trope. The entry in question:
- Paul Feig said of Ghostbusters (2016) that one of the Ghostbusters is gay, and he'd wanted to put more evidence in the film itself, but the studio didn't want it and so he isn't allowed to tell us which one. The film itself shows Holtzmann flirting with Erin a lot - one scene getting spotlighted in the trailer - but nothing's ever stated and she also hits on Kevin.
Does it still counts as an example if the character (Holtzmann) was confirmed to be lesbian via Word of Gay?
Why is there that list in the description of Dude, Not Funny! ?
The trope is meant to be In-Universe Examples Only and it is a list of subjects that someone thinks shoud be censored
Edited by jormis29
O.k., took the Bait-and-Switch Lesbians example about Ghostbusters (2016) to discussion, as it indeed seems weak.
Couldn't restore the Gamer Chick entry on Characters.Wreck It Ralph, because I don't know which character it originally was filed under.
The rest of the edits are already restored by Magnimik, so thanks.
The Ghostbusters example should probably be under Hide Your Lesbians, because its about the studio putting restrictions on LGBT content.
>Wreck It Ralph
Missed that one. I restored the entry. And for the future, you can see the context of edits in the edit history.
GeekyBinka
is routinely editing to remove references to females characters' gender. It seems that at best they have an agenda about removing any notion about how some tropes are usually applied more (or differently) to women than men or vice versa, or at worst they might be on some MRA mission. This includes deleting parts of Trope description that are in the Main namespace.
- SoYouWantTo.Avoid Unfortunate Implications: Deleted sentences from the trope description referencing misogyny and sexism, and deleted instances of the word "male", without edit reason.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Deleted a sentence referencing women from the trope description, without edit reason.
- Gamer Chick: Deleted a sentence referencing women from the trope description, without edit reason.
- Magical Negro: Deleted a sentence from the trope description about female counterparts of the trope, without edit reason.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Deleted an entry referencing misogyny, without edit reason.
- YMMV.The Little Mermaid: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- N-Word Privileges: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- YMMV.Pocahontas: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- Characters.Wreck It Ralph Other Characters: Deleted an entry with edit reason "We shouldn't make a big deal out of her gender".
- Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Deleted an example about a character possibly being gay, without edit reason.
Edited by LB7979