THEY'RE SO FUCKING SMUG ABOUT HOW FAKE WOKE THEY ARE
The writers thought nobody would accuse them of doing a #buryyourgays so long as they framed Quentin as an "archetypal white male" and his death as a subversion of white patriarchal tropes. Josh EPITOMIZES the "archetypal white male" and his arc fulfills tenfold all the tropes the writers want to claim Quentin's death subverts.
And it comes across like "The original white male self-insert got too queer and too sad for neurotypical straight white men to identify with, so we got rid of him and brought in Paul Blart Mall Cop to bang the hot chick."
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Date: 2019-04-19 06:17 pm (UTC)The writers thought nobody would accuse them of doing a #buryyourgays so long as they framed Quentin as an "archetypal white male" and his death as a subversion of white patriarchal tropes. Josh EPITOMIZES the "archetypal white male" and his arc fulfills tenfold all the tropes the writers want to claim Quentin's death subverts.
And it comes across like "The original white male self-insert got too queer and too sad for neurotypical straight white men to identify with, so we got rid of him and brought in Paul Blart Mall Cop to bang the hot chick."