Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.
Why do people who ship women together need to jump through so many hoops in order to be “legitimate”? We need essays with academic sources almost to enjoy the consumption of our media and the (lacking) representation of ourselves.
I’m tired of the disregard for the identities of women who love women in canon - in this case, Tracer is canonly a lesbian - and yet, some of y’all are like, ‘MY WAIFU!!! NOOOO!!’ or “nah she’s bi” -- which also speaks to an intra-community issues too, but it also speaks to the higher disrespect for lesbians.
“But she’s just a character lol’ - yeah, she’s fictional but a lot of people identify with her and it’s incredibly disheartening to see people ignore it, as if women cannot be exclusively romantically/sexually interested in women, L O L.
And before y’all jump on me for “you’ll make straight characters bi though”, it’s like.... there are straight characters everywhere. By doing this, you’re adding representation where they may be none. But by disregarding established LGBT+ characters, you’re taking away what little representation there is.
So when you’re all like “it’s just fictional”, “she can be bi!!!”, you’re outright disrespecting lesbian identity. When you force us to explain our ships without doing the same to m/m or m/f ships, you’re only enforcing the notion that women cannot exclusively be attracted to women.
In the great words of Leslie Jones,