The whole Sara Lance sexuality thing was so wild because like... some of yall are literally just telling on yourselves about how you feel about and understand bisexuality.
What's wild is someone who isn't bi calling bisexuals biphobic for addressing blatant bi erasure that a bi writer even confirmed was happening just before she quit the show and a gay executive producer later admitted to doing to pander to biphobic queer viewers before shrugging off Caity saying it hurt bi fans at an LGBTQ-themed panel after a year and a half of trying to gaslight bi viewers about it.
And to add onto this, looking at some of your Sara-related posts, you have at least recognized some major issues in the writing of her in later seasons, which is more than a lot of people who more or less supported the writing for her in the middle of the series and are fans of the endgame she was put in, but whenever this even happens -- and it almost never does -- I’m always flabbergasted that no one bothers to reconsider what people had been saying about the biphobia surrounding Sara from nearly the very start of the show but which was amped up considerably going into S2. Not just the bi erasure, though that was one of the first major red flags, but all sorts of manifestations of the ugly way some of the showrunners and staff writers clearly view bisexuals.
It’s all been part of the same problem both behind the scenes at the show and within the fandom but there’s this frustrating refusal among some of you to connect the dots. The bi erasure was very much real and the first indication of how the straight and gay producers/writers, mostly men, never cared about who Sara was as a character, never appreciated the fans they built the show on who followed her over partly on the promise of a bi lead, and were just looking to use her to score points with a particularly nasty but loud subset of other shows’ fanbases and would write her in a way that validated them rather than who she represented, not just directly related to her sexuality and how it was depicted but in all facets of her story or lack thereof.
LOT fans/A******* shippers do not want to admit we were right about the erasure, much less reexamine their view of the issue at the time and how their expression of it was either directly participating in the biphobia or at the very least enabling it, and hold themselves accountable for their part in the show feeling they could get away with generally dehumanizing Sara and eventually discarding her like trash. And while people will complain about certain specific things here and there, they won’t acknowledge that the entirety of where and how Sara/”Sara” ended up is downright offensive nor will they acknowledge LOT as a whole was just a terrible show for, among other characters, Sara, as every bit of her writing originated from the same place of exploitation, biphobia, misogyny, homophobia and ableism.
Like it’s been six years since the people you’re baselessly attacking were first bullied into silence and the show’s been cancelled for months so I don’t know what would have even prompted this post but while bi Sara fans have reason to think about that bullshit every so often and get angry all over again, I don’t know why in the world someone who pretty much got their way would still be holding onto animosity towards a marginalized group who got used and kicked around for years with absolutely no self-awareness or desire for self-reflection on either their role in the matter or its connection to aspects of the writing they did take issue with. Why does it still bother you so much more than half a decade later that bi fans spoke up for themselves, especially when it just barely resulted in any positive change to the material given Sara and it was immediately counterbalanced by certain scenes and off-screen commentary that felt like they were made expressly to negate any happiness or enjoyment one may have gotten from their supposed attempts to rectify things in retaliation for calling them out in the first place?
