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[–]writerlylesbian 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, I completely get what you're saying and I feel the same way. I don't engage very much with most western TV and movies, and this is part of the reason why. Just boring het story after boring het story. But for me it's coupled with the fact that I don't like a lot of US media, and the US tends to dominate that arena.

I know that anime and manga (rightly) tend to be viewed by suspicion/disliked by many around here, but, if you dig through all the pandering trash, there are some lesbian storylines and characters in anime that, in my view, in quality far exceed the vast majority of Western lesbian content. Third season of the original Sailor Moon anime (called Sailor Moon S) is always my go-to example, but there's many others. Also, there's a lot of slice-of-life anime series that focus solely on groups of female characters, with no men in sight, and while they're generally not lesbian as such, the characters still get to have storylines and character development that doesn't revolve around 1) getting with a man, and/or 2) being constantly surrounded by men and never interacting with another female.