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[–]FrostyNugs 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Yes please! Every lesbian character in woke-leaning media today is the exact same one dimensional cardboard cutout. She's a Strong, Independent Woman™ who must subtlety diss any men or straight characters every five seconds, and must effortlessly be better than the male characters at anything she tries. But don't worry, she has flaws too! Like how those boring unwoke straight people don't accept her KWEEEEEER lifestyle until she preaches at them! It feels like I'm reading some virtue signaling queer theory feminism fanfiction instead of a published work.

[–]BraveAndStunningTERF 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think this comment is pretty accurate but i want to pick your brain a little further.

Do you think the representation we are getting is because of:

1: Lack of content being written/directed by lesbian (not Bi) women?

2: The media wanting to hammer-home their one dimensional view of being a lesbian and make that view as appealing to men as possible for views?

3: The general myth in most societies that women are utterly incapable of being happy & content with their lives when left "to their own devices"

Surely, S-U-R-E-L-Y there has to be a ton of lesbian writers/film makers who's content/ideas are being nexted because it "doesnt appeal to a wider audience" ?

[–]FrostyNugs 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wall of text ahead:

There could very well be some lesbian writers who are putting out this kind of content, because lesbians are just as vulnerable to woke queer theory rhetoric as anyone else. Maybe even more so, because most lesbians lean very very liberal and will default to the viewpoint they see as the most progressive.

Men are no longer the target audience for most lesbian stories nowadays. Of course there is still a huge market for lesbian content directed towards guys, lesbian is the most popular porn genre in many countries. But most story based content is marketed towards the woke LGBTQIAWTF demographic. It's a very easy audience to reach because you can appeal to them just by adding a few one dimensional characters whose only trait is that they're a member of the alphabet soup, and whose character arc is only about issues relating to their queerness (god, I hate that word.) Even if the story is abysmally written it will be praised by the woke crowd for having representation. Very easy money.

I'm sure that if a writer wanted to include a lesbian character who was a normal person, i.e. not just there for sex appeal or for virtue signaling about how woke the writers are, that they would be told by their superiors to change it. A normal homosexual character would catch a lot of flak from both the alphabet soup brigade for not being queer enough, and the old school conservatives who get their panties in a bunch whenever a gay person is featured in their favorite show. And so having one is just a bad marketing decision. In the end, it's all about the money.

Tl;dr: it's always been about the money, woke people have lots of money and influence. Might fix this later so it's less of a disjointed mess.