heather: Salma Hayek Is a Surprisingly Endearing Lesbian Taco in “Sausage Party”how’s that [headline]?i can’t see how a latina woman voicing a lesbian taco in a seth rogen movie could ever be a good thing, but this review says it is nuanced and sweetriese: is the reviewer whiteheather: i don’t knowa lot of reviewers are talking about how this is a really nuanced allegory about theology and faith? that feels so impossible.will someone else read the sausage party post? i have made the few edits it needed for readability, but i feel uneasy because i haven’t seen it and it is a latina lesbian taco falling in love with a hot dog bunYvonne: lol i can read itheather: thank you[….]Yvonne: i think it’s fine heather! i think i wouldn’t watch the movie because it’s in the category of movies i hate and i hope our readers can make that distinction for themselves. and it’s not like we’re endorsing this movie, just pointing out there’s a lesbian tacoheather: okay!Yvonne: maybe we should include the trailer in there?i had to go find itand judge for myselfand was like oh ewwheather: i hope it’s not transmisogynistic. i went through ten pages of google results and tumblr and didn’t see anything about transphobia or transmisogynyYvonne: truelike if i think about it, of course i hate that they resorted to a stereotype, like making salma hayek use her accent for the voice of a taco but like this is seth rogan so my feelings are like :face_with_rolling_eyes:heather: yeah, that makes sense!Yvonne: do you think think the last paragraph is like an exaggeration? or does this fall into the thing of someone has an opinion different from yours type of deal?Heather: i think the second thing. i mean, i don’t think it’s going to actually encourage queer rep in movies aimed at younger people; i don’t think that’s a thing that will happen at all. but i do think she’s right that having an animated lesbian character to sympathize with in a summer blockbuster aimed at the people who will pay money to see this is a big deal.Yvonne: ok!heather: also i wonder if the taco is bisexuali can’t believe i am having this much of a crisis about this!Yvonne: i get it though!because sausage party is crassheather: yesYvonne: like people in our community can critique the hell out of itand pick it apartheather: yesYvonne: because it’s meant for stupid ####### menheather: yes!thank you, yesthat is my feelings exactlyYvonne: and it’s not meant for usand we don’t need more media like it in this worldbecause that is the worldHeather: no!we do not!i have lost my mind, thanks a lot taco movieYvonne: hahahahahai had no idea this was a movie!heather: i wish i didn’tYvonne: a summer blockbuster evenheather: i’ll bet it’s so grossYvonne: for sureso lewdheather: you have to read and write too much about donald trump to be forced to acknowledge that this movie exists!
