Yeah, Ive seen so little of gay man representation that when I do it feels almost like finding a shiny pokemon. Lesbians are not threatening to the bigot’s eye and thus if media shows gayness, it’s almost always lesbian gayness
Are you sure? I’ve seen plenty male gay family member representation in series and such, but almost zero lesbian representation.
I can think of several series and sitcoms with some male gay couple; modern family, shameless and Brooklyn 99 come to my mind, the only one where there’s some lesbianism that comes to my mind is “la que se avecina” , which is a trash show anyway and both women are bi, not even lesbians.
It could just be a marketing thing or a Hollywood is sexist thing. I mean if you look at male and female actors, men can be a lot uglier and still get work. Women are expected to conform to a certain aesthetic. It stands to reason that the characters they play also conform to the same aesthetics.
I wonder if your phone would do that really satisfying “rr-rr-RRRRRR-RRRRRRR-rr” vibration pattern like it does encountering a shiny in Pokémon Go whenever you face a genuine representation of a gay man in a public space?
Yeah, Ive seen so little of gay man representation that when I do it feels almost like finding a shiny pokemon. Lesbians are not threatening to the bigot’s eye and thus if media shows gayness, it’s almost always lesbian gayness
Are you sure? I’ve seen plenty male gay family member representation in series and such, but almost zero lesbian representation.
I can think of several series and sitcoms with some male gay couple; modern family, shameless and Brooklyn 99 come to my mind, the only one where there’s some lesbianism that comes to my mind is “la que se avecina” , which is a trash show anyway and both women are bi, not even lesbians.
Brooklyn 99 has a whole story line about Rosa coming out as bi. That’s not exactly the same thing as writing her Lesbian, but it’s representation.
Bi women are allowed to be lesbians if they want
Maybe I just don’t see the right stuff, actually that’s the most probable explanation
One of the main characters in Agatha All Along is a gay man, at least according to the Talmud. According to Agatha he’s a kid
It could just be a marketing thing or a Hollywood is sexist thing. I mean if you look at male and female actors, men can be a lot uglier and still get work. Women are expected to conform to a certain aesthetic. It stands to reason that the characters they play also conform to the same aesthetics.
I wonder if your phone would do that really satisfying “rr-rr-RRRRRR-RRRRRRR-rr” vibration pattern like it does encountering a shiny in Pokémon Go whenever you face a genuine representation of a gay man in a public space?