ok fuck it throwing my two cents into the ring of cameron lesbian discourse:
beyond the fact that a lot of this seems to come from treating cameron like she’s a real person instead of the fictional character on a tv show that she, uh, actually is, i think it’s important to point out that a theoretical lesbian cameron would affect more than just her relationships and attraction towards men. take the ending of the show, for instance: cameron’s epilogue ending shows her remarried to another man, a baby in tow. i myself have argued that there’s probably more to this ending than meets the eye—that her rapid marriage-and-baby speedrun is likely a reaction to her divorce—but the fact of the matter is that it is supposed to be a happy ending. it is cameron’s narrative reward for making it out while she still could, for escaping the poison and corruption that being in house’s sphere of influence brings. maybe it’s temporary, maybe it isn’t, but at the point at which we see it…cameron’s happy. how are we supposed to interpret that if cameron is a lesbian? if she is truly incapable of attraction to men, this ought to elicit feelings of dread—here she is, bound in another relationship that will never make her truly happy—but that’s clearly not the point of the scene, and nor would it make sense for it to be. how do we square a scene that is objectively supposed to compare cameron’s happiness with chase’s unease with the idea that this very thing is in some way an act of repression? you have to discount one of the final notes of the show—cameron’s own final scene—to make lesbian cameron work, and at that point why bother arguing that the headcanon is canon-compliant when you’ve already diverged in a very significant way. headcanon whatever you like, but i think it is objectively the case that lesbian cameron cannot be the exact version of cameron who exists in the show. and that’s fine! nobody is saying it isn’t! but that version of cameron is not the one people are going to be talking about when they do canon analysis, and i think you have to be okay with that.
