HOW is confirming Neeko’s lesbian pandering? E v e r y interaction between her and female champions is flirty as hell, and she shows an extreme lack of interest in most of the male champions? What more can she do whip her labia out and say AM LESBEAN LETS SCISSOR?
It’s not that Neeko as a character is a lesbian is pandering. It’s Riot trying to save their ass by claiming that they are inclusive by explicitly saying she’s a lesbian is the main issue. Marketable sexuality is such a shallow and shitty way of representing actual LGBT.
Here's a sobering statement. No matter how hard people try to make it seem like homosexuality is the bees knees. It's not. It elevates it into a novelty like status where it's hip to be gay or trans like as if it was the trendy thing to do. It invalidates people that want a peaceful life with their significant other when everything is so god damn in your face about it and looks incredibly disingenuous.
Neeko's case in particular could have very well been left alone and allowed to have fans discover that she prefers women. Shit you could look at Diana & Leona, Caitlyn & Vi as prime examples of showing and not telling. Because if people need to have their hands held and not allowed to figure shit out on their own about which character is attracted to who then it just makes LGBT people look really stupid and childish in appearance and never taken seriously.
