Please show me where Headlund "is obsessed with being gay and is injecting it into movies/TV."
Provide concrete, unmistakable examples.
Because so far, in terms of culture war bull****, all I've seen her say about
The Acolyte, specifically, is that she strove to make a PLATONIC "love story" between two sisters. And that if she would have seen a movie like
Frozen, where the love story doesn't focus on a man and a woman (and is rather between two sisters), as a gay kid, it would have meant the world to her, knowing not every love story needs to focus on a man and a woman. Which is a totally normal, perfectly fine thought to have/emotion to express. No one thinks that's weird or inappropriate but you guys.
Otherwise, Headlund recently said this in response to the reaction to the show…
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However, as someone who generally pushes back on the notion that queer artists are capable of creating only queer or queer-coded art, Headland remains perplexed by a recent viral moment from her show's L.A. junket. A journalist posited to her and Stenberg that The Acolyte is "arguably the gayest Star Wars by a considerable margin." The writer-director and her star had fun with the line of inquiry, but now that the exchange has generated a bevy of responses, the question of what makes a piece of mass entertainment "gay" is one this queer artist continues to ponder in earnest. "I was surprised by the question. Amandla and I just burst out laughing because that's our knee-jerk reaction to being asked that, but to be honest, I don't know what the term 'gay' means in that sense," admits Headland, adding, "I don't believe that I've created queer, with a capital Q, content."
Perhaps the most queer-adjacent story point is that the 24-year-old Aniseya twins were born to two moms, Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Mother Koril (Margarita Levieva), whom plenty of internet commentators are calling a lesbian couple. The two led an exiled coven of witches on the planet of Brendok, where they practiced their own interpretation of the Force, known as the Thread.
It's eventually implied, not confirmed, that Aniseya used her brand of Force powers to impregnate Koril with the twins, but for Headland, their relationship is more circumstantial. "They're in a matriarchal society. As a gay woman, I knew it would read that their sexuality is queer, but there also aren't any men in their community," she explains. "So a closeness between the two of them would be natural. It seemed plot-driven." She adds: "I would say it's really reductive to call them lesbians. I think it means you're not really paying attention to this story."
Whether you think she's being genuine there or not, as obsessed as you think Headlund is, you guys are
just as obsessed in trying so desperately to call her out. And in your obsession, you twist people's words, and see only what you want to see, in order to have boogey man to rail against. Because, deep down, I think you
need that boogey man, seeing as the easiest way to define who you are is by what you hate, as opposed to navigating any kind nuance or empathy. There is literally no other reason why a handful of you "complain" about this stuff all day every day here. Because, secretly… you love it. You love having a "cause," and you so clearly get off on championing and obsessing over that "cause" in thread after thread after thread after thread, making this place absolutely miserable for the rest of us.
