How ODDAT portrays teenagers/teenage relationships
- they aren’t overtly sexualized, dress their age, and act the ways most normal teenagers act
- their relationship does involve sex- but any mention of it is about issues of consent and understanding healthy relationships. Also, no overly sexual aspects of their relationship is showed on screen BECAUSE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CHILDREN
Now for Riverdale characters who are THE EXACT SAME AGE as Elena and Syd
- promotes unrealistic body standereds
- overly sexulizes characters who are under 18
- shows teenage sex on screen involving strip teases for grown ass men, pedophilia (in the first damn episode), and BDSM elements
Essentially- Elena ans Syd were made for teens to relate to and to see themselves in. Like all aspects of ODAAT the teenaged characters are diverse, struggle with real problems, and represent realistic expectations for teenagers to look and act.
However, Riverdale is meant to sexualize teenage characters and fosters many harmful expectations in its young audience.
So, WHY is Riverdale being renewed again and ODAAT isn’t??
