What I hate about heteronormativity is that you will get the most mind-blowing, realistic, palpable chemistry between two characters of the same gender in a show and the writer/cast will bend over backwards to pretend it’s in the fans heads or make out it’s some amusing and impossible joke, yet you’ll get the dullest, most rubbish, forced, stilted ‘romance’ shoved in your face and be expected to just go with it because hey, it’s a man and a lady who are white and moderately attractive, of course it’s true love. Of bloody course.
It’s so tiring and disrespectful. And the way a lot of tv/movie writers write straight romance most of the time is getting so boring and terrible because they just expect us to accept that two people are in love because of WHAT they are, not who they are to each other. That for them love is a “role” to be playe, not a gradually developing living thing.
