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Gay and brown.Later probably its revealed that shes non-binary/trans/they/them/zee/zar
shareYou knew it already. It's been in the entertainment news for months. So stop trying to act like you didn't know just to sound "smart"...😂😂😂
shareYeah, I didn't even know this thing even existed until I was scrolling through HBO Max last week and saw it on there. But go ahead and speak for me like you know what you're talking about so that, you too, can sound "smart" since that was apparently my intention, according to you.
shareWell it's not like Velma EVER, in 50 years of cartoons, even showed any interest in a man.
So... the big unanswered question is Shaggy's orientation! He never showed any interest in a living thing, except for his dig.
"except for his dig"
What?
A fairly obvious typo. It happens. The "i" & "o" are right next to each other on the keyboard.
shareThank you, I did mean "dog". The dog that Shaggy treated like a life partner...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/1ec0b046dbdf83c4fa6630140b3ab6b5/07b9800b4b4d27b3-46/s540x810/1725eba88f617bfb06cdfcc9be66ad4774ec6a49.gifv
Did Velma ever, in 50 years of cartoons, show interest in a woman?
And as for Shaggy, depending on how quickly the show is cancelled, I guess that means he'll be bangin his dog in no time. Extra woke checkmarks.
Didn't she have a crush on Shaggy at one point? I haven't watched a Scooby Doo show in a long while, but I'm told that's the case in some later episodes.
shareVelma and Shaggy were in a (somewhat reluctant, on his part) relationship in the Mystery Incorporated show. But she began to believe he thought more of his dog than he did of her.
shareWhy do you assume Velma was heterosexual in the original?
shareBecause not only are the majority of people heterosexual, making it statistically much more likely that Velma would be straight than gay, but because the pair of writers who originally created Scooby Doo, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, were both straight men, and it's incredibly unlikely that they had the slightest intention of creating a gay character for a kid's cartoon show in 1969.
shareDid the writer's also speculate on Velma's religion? I checked, Joe Ruby was Jewish. Is Velma Jewish? Was Velma raised by a single mother, two parents? Was she adopted?
I doubt the writers speculated on her sexuality. It was a grey area like religion and her upbringing which wasn't addressed.
20%+ of people are lesbian, gay or bisexual by recent statistics.
There were 5 regular characters on Scooby Doo. Statistics show one of them was gay or bisexual. Maybe it was Velma. Maybe it was the dog. So why do you all assume Velma was straight?
Did the writer's also speculate on Velma's religion? I checked, Joe Ruby was Jewish. Is Velma Jewish?
I doubt the writers speculated on her sexuality. It was a grey area like religion and her upbringing which wasn't addressed.
20%+ of people are lesbian, gay or bisexual by recent statistics.
here were 5 regular characters on Scooby Doo. Statistics show one of them was gay or bisexual.
Maybe it was Velma. Maybe it was the dog. So why do you all assume Velma was straight?
Uh, no, 20.8% of Generation Z, 20 year olds, identify as queer. This is from Gallup. These are people who are having sex now. I'm sure they know what they like.
It's trendy for some guy to let me fuck him in the ass? 🤣
https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx
The numbers are higher among younger people because there's less stigma attached as there is for middle-aged people. But we've always been about 20%. The general consensus is correct. You're the one living in the past.
So no, one of the 5 characters would statistically be LGBT. It might be Velma, It might be one of the other 4.
But there is nothing statistically incorrect about Velma being bisexual.
And now she is! Get over it.
And you have no clue whether or not Velma is Jewish.
Uh, no, 20.8% of Generation Z, 20 year olds, identify as queer. This is from Gallup. These are people who are having sex now. I'm sure they know what they like.
It's trendy for some guy to let me fuck him in the ass?
Or was it merely the case that it was commonplace in their culture, they were raised to regard it as normal, and this led many people to engage in sexual practices they would not have had their cultural mores been different, and their society not actively promoted and encouraged those practices?
Preach.
shareYes, you hit the nail on the head. If it's more acceptable more people will do it. But they have to have the innate desire to find it pleasurable in the first place.
I'm gay/bi so I'm trying to explain this to you and how it works.
When I was a kid you hid your same-sex attraction because homosexuality was hated and scorned. Many of us wouldn't even admit it to ourselves. We've all heard of gays and lesbians who marry the opposite sex in their 20's, have children, and then "realize" they're homosexual 20 years later.
When I was 18 if I was asked confidentially by a pollster about my sexuality, I would have lied and said I was heterosexual. That's how ingrained was the fear of exposure.
Really, I just laugh when I hear fools say 20% of Gen Z people are lying about their sexual attraction.
They're at the age where people are dating and having the most sex. I have teens in my extended family. The straight boys especially are still very leery of being thought of as gay.
This age group knows what homosexuality and bisexuality are. You act like they think LGB+ is a bunch of letters.
Yes, in my middle-aged group 20% of people are gay but are afraid to say it, so the general consensus from Gallup that 1 in 5 are gay or bi is accurate. Folks have always known this from practical real life knowledge. And Gen Z is now confirming what my generation was afraid to admit even to themselves.
Sexual attraction (old fashioned LUST!) is not "trendy" like tattoos and nose rings!
Really, I just laugh when I hear fools say 20% of Gen Z people are lying about their sexual attraction.
This age group knows what homosexuality and bisexuality are. You act like they think LGB+ is a bunch of letters.
Sexual attraction (old fashioned LUST!) is not "trendy" like tattoos and nose rings!
Why? You don't speak for everyone. You don't even speak for the gay community. You speak for yourself and that's it. It is not as if you have any basis for that statement other than your own preference. You certainly haven't conducted any kind of scientific research to back that up, and you've cherrypicked your evidence among the studies that are out there.
Well, if people are inclined to think that way, I'd say you can thank the LGBT activists for that. Yesterday we were being told that people were "born this way" and couldn't help who they were attracted to. Now it's how you "identify" and even that can change from day to day, and people are "fluid."
Who do you speak for? I base my statements on two Gallup polls, scientific evidence. You posted the Gallup poll which says most people say over 20% of the population is LGBT. I posted a Gallup poll which says over 20% of Gen Z say they are LGBT.
I've never believed in "born that way".
And you're confusing sexual orientation with gender.
WELL SAID.
shareBecause she was and always has been... until they made her gay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Dinkley#Love_interests
Oh they went full SJW BS with this show, from what I heard. It reads like a filthy, angry, man-hating adult cartoon. It even has a shower scene with naked teenage girls (with suds covering the private parts), Shaggy's a black drug dealer, Daphne is a bitch that sells drugs to raise money, and exchanges a kiss with Velma at one point, there are sex jokes galore, and Fred is a complete dimwit who can't even cut his own meat at meals because he's had it done for him his whole life. There's no dog, but rumor has it Shaggy has a girlfriend who's black named "Scoobi." Don't you just love it when a cartoon pisses off both sides of the aisle?
Makes you wonder why anyone would be stupid enough to fund this vanity fanfiction project for Mindy Kaling.
Velma being a lesbian was already done in a direct to VOD movie from last year. Besides, Velma liking women has been a long-running joke in the fandom for decades, to the point where the 2002 movie and the Mystery Incorporated cartoon attempted to go that direction.
shareVelma being a lesbian was already done in a direct to VOD movie from last year.
I mean, as I said, Velma liking girls had been a running fandom joke for a very long time, right up there with the jokes about Shaggy being a stoner.
shareVelma liking girls had been a running fandom joke for a very long time,
Ok, I’ll bite. Why is it degenerate for Velma to like girls?
shareBecause...
No. 1: It's hetero-conversion. She's been hetero for decades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Dinkley#Love_interests
No. 2: They're changing the identity of a character to promote a lifestyle choice that is rife with domestic abuse:
• https://archive.is/gqkN8
• https://ncadv.org/blog/posts/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community
No. 3: Force-feeding two classic hetero characters into a degenerate life not only doesn't make sense, but is only designed to feed into the coomer mindset that has become overwhelmed by today's over-abundance of pornography:
● https://sundial.csun.edu/168783/print-editions/this-generation-loves-porn-how-is-it-affecting-their-perception-of-intimacy/
● https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/easy-access-porn-measurably-bad-effect-millennial-men
● https://fightthenewdrug.org/millennials-and-gen-z-are-the-most-bored-generations-ever-is-online-porn-making-it-worse/
No. 4: Following up on no.3, the only reason people like it is because they've become so over-indulgent in porn they want to see it broadcast in every kind of media form, which is the only reason they're okay with it, since it is literally a net-negative in every other aspect, including physical health, productivity, and even mental health:
● https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874216/
● https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2530417
● https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2009.177329