Isabela Merced talks queer representation in “The Last of Us”

VARIETY: The episode ends with Dina and Ellie on the roof looking toward where they think Abby is, holding hands — and Dina says, “Together.” I’ve seen the whole season, so I know how complicated things get, but it’s so powerful in that moment. As a queer person, what does it mean to you to have that kind of representation on such a massive show?

MERCED: I mean, it’s awesome! No one actually thinks I’m queer, which is fine. I don’t really care. I’m an actor, so I can play anyone, right? But for it to mean so much to me personally is great and grand. And I just think about people from my hometown who maybe have never seen this side of me watching this and really getting to know me in a way, and understanding me and them really seeing it on a large scale. And then picturing someone maybe who was like me: Grew up Catholic, shoved down their emotions and maybe wants to be an actor — because you’d be surprised. There’s a lot of those specific archetypes in Ohio!

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I didn’t know she was from Ohio

I’m an actor, so I can play anyone, right?

Yikes.

Ohio, Peru.

why won't anyone watch our slop?

Why are Peruvians like this?

remember when in prison break they broke out of prison and the show still went on for a few seasons? this feels like that, kinda pointless without the joel-ellie relationship

Why is every zoomer girl gay

To get attention on social media. They always find the most manly looking dyke available too.

Female faggotry isn't as disgusting as male faggotry. You don't have a dick to shove up someone's shithole. It's also more socially tolerated.

Izzy will have my 75% white babies, don't worry.

They get their hearts broken by chad and hate men for a while so they date these bitch lesbians, but eventually they go back to bouncing on dark triad dick sooner or later

There's a lot of chemicals in the water at this point. Studies are showing that people in the developed world at now showing signs of microplastics throughout their body in their blood. I read something that was saying at this point, they're starting to find microplastics inside the male scrotum.

These chemicals are conducive to estrogen production. When men are exposed to a large amount of estrogen, it becomes the dominant sex hormone and starts to affect their body. Their behavior will change, they'll store more fat, etc.
However, when WOMEN are exposed to excess estrogen, it has the opposite effect. The body will seek to balance this overproduction by producing more testosterone. The woman will start to store her fat differently (less in the waist), and their behavior will start to change as well

You don't wonder why all the new up and coming stars are so androgynous? Zendaya, Chalet, Sweeney, even Tom Holland's little twinky ass.
Think of Millie Bobbi Brown's bone structure and then compare it to any of those little twinks in stranger things.

Basically gender is being eliminated over time.
This species needs to go.
They can't make it off this rock, not in any meaningful way.

All women are bisexual. Zoomers are just more vocal about it.

all humans are bisexual and some other animals are bisexual. if you saw a Godly, pristine, beautiful man you would bung his hole. it's just a matter of finding the right man.

I propose 2 reasons
First is that during adolescence every person feels like they don't fit in, because they're mind has recently grown enough to partly comprehend the huge scale of the world, variability of people but also similarities of people. So it used to be a normal part of this adolescent phase was trying out different hobbies, fashions, jobs, politics, ideals, friends, locations and subcultures. Sexuality has developed as the most important subculture in recent years. It's the most invisible kind of disability and so every adolescent that has the slightest twinge of discomfort in any part of their life has all of their media (which is 60% of their information space due to lack of IRL socialisation) telling them that's a sign of Sexuality.
Gay people are real, but an indicator of how this is an external force affecting young people is the discrepancy between claimed frequency and claimed victimhood. Queer young people claim like 40-60% of young people are queer, but they also claim to be an utterly invisible, lonely segment of society desperate to finally meet someone queer like them. This is because the defining aspect of modern Queer sexuality is not sexual behaviour, it's actual the inherent feeling of "otherness" young people have and sexuality is an explanation provided by modern culture.
So you can have 100 queer zoomer lesbians living on an island and every one will claim to be the only queer on the island. "Queer" means different, it doesn't mean attracted to women or men or anything.

Is she gonna talk about her weight gain?

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The second element is that human sexuality is aimed at other persons. In prison, straight men will resort to homosexual acts due to a lack of women; because a non-existent woman isn't a person. In misogynistic cultures like Afghanistan, Arabia, ancient greece, 16th century Japan they they had such low opinions of women they didn't really consider them people and so male homosexuality was normalised out of necessity; because an existent yet inhuman woman isn't a person either.
I think today there is a combination of the young being more socially isolated than is healthy (except via digital media) but also that women are alienated from men by a belief of apocalyptic misogyny. Progressive women, and young women are the most radically progressive, believe they're living in a constant holocaust of violence against women. They say 1 out of 4 women are raped but also believe 95% of rapes are under reported, so febrile logic combines these stats into the same figure that probably 95% of the 3 out of 4 women who claim not to be raped have actually been raped. They believe femicide is a national emergency, that maybe their won't BE any women in the future because they've all been raped and murdered.

It's a hyperbolic rhetorical claim, but every time it gets repeated some women become slightly more earnest in thinking women really are safer trapped in a forest with a bear than with a man. If men are more dangerous and untrustworthy than a wild bear then they can't even really be human.
So I think men are being dehumanised in female culture and by necessity they're turning to homosexuality; because a man isn't a person.
This is an very subtle dynamic. Every misogynistic afghani tribesmen will insist women really are people, more than a donkey or goat. But they still aren't people enough to have adult conversations with, to share feelings with, to express your true self and identity with. This is what modern young women feel about men.

they think being it gives them personality and makes them quirky, while denying it

The show is dead after this season. Drunkhead doesn't have a new game planned and he basically put it in the show contract that they can't make OC content after they adapt the second game

Moner*

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Why are you spamming this tweet OP? It's not even accurate. The ugly chick in it was never her girlfriend and the pictures are like four years old, not current like the tweet is claiming.

You seem confused, newfren. That’s a completely different image hash, which is why OP isn’t included in those archive results.

Social contagion

you can have 100 queer zoomer lesbians living on an island and every one will claim to be the only queer on the island.

reminds me of Little Britain

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Uh huh. So TWO different anons just happened to see and screenshot the same random person's tweet, huh? And even happened to crop their images exactly the same and have the same filename format, and try to push claims that Isabela Moner is gay despite her litany of white boyfriends.

How uncanny.

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girlfriend

it's literally ftm transvestite

this isn't a joke btw

yeah....cos you changed it after being spotted spamming it
still the same fuckin image bro

FTM transvestite isn’t that big of a leap for a nig.

No, just a butch ugly girl, and was never her "girlfriend" whatever the retarded tweet in OP claims. Probably his own tweet.

Her girlfriend looks like a dude

stop falling for bullshit out of context images

How can you know for sure? Could be just a really ugly girl

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For me, it’s an adapt or be lonely and sexless situation. If I can’t get a woman, then a tranny is the next best thing.

Kerb actually is a girl, she's just really butch. And they're not dating anymore.

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It’s a social contagian

And they're not dating anymore

I have a chance then.

and never were

Nah, that's not a woman. That's a troon

The fact that you watched it at all is enough to sentence you to execution

tl;dr jews