the eat bang kill writer is lesbophobic??
@drayna: The writer of the comics is lesbophobic??? How does that even work with the whole point of these comics then lmao
@hello-gaynow: Oh no! What has she done thats lesbiphobic?
(I was gonna respond on that post itself but I figured I could just move it all over here since someone sent an ask <3)
so yeah, unfortunately 😬 it came out a few weeks ago after she confirmed that Ivy in this comic / in the show is bisexual and some people started giving her shit for it, which like don't do that, but her response to someone apologizing for the backlash was:
Comment: As a lesbian I wanna apologize for how half this community reacts to literally anything they're legitimately some of the most annoying fucking people on the planet
Tee Franklin: You don't have to apologize, these ignoramuses don't speak for all lesbians.
You good with me boo even tho I hate lesbians. 😩
And clearly that set off a wave of valid criticism and for some reason ig she can't figure out why people took issue with her just flat out saying she hates lesbians.
Like yeah, people were absolutely in the wrong for harassing her about writing her version of Ivy as bisexual, but I've seen a lot of people completely talking over the lesbian community in the DC fandom who've expressed being hurt over her comments and have brushed those criticisms aside because "oh, y'all are just mad she's not writing Ivy how y'all want."
Not to mention that I’ve seen a lot of lesbians say that it feels like she’s actively pushing the idea that if you’ve ever been in a relationship with a man, you cannot be a lesbian, and that that’s why Ivy’s bisexual! Obviously! She was with Kiteman! Which not only completely disregards the comphet vibes a lot of us got from Ivy in the show, but also just in general it invalidates lesbians who’ve been with men in the past.
and on September 1 she replied to a TikTok about it.
Their TikTok was just the above screenshot captioned with "not the writer of Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang Kill Tour literally being homophobic towards lesbians 🙁”
And she responded in the replies with:
MizTee Franklin: How about you actually READ the entire thing instead of cherry picking what you want. People were claiming this is what I am so I “agreed” with em
MizTee Franklin: I wasn’t making a joke. I had hundreds of comments calling me a TERF & a lesbian hater & enby hater. I’m not arguing w/ppl about what I said.
MizTee Franklin: But you posted this to cause controversy I see you and the rest of y’all. Everyone who followed knows exactly what went down
But if this is the narrative you wanna spin have fun. I know what’s what and so does everyone else who follows me.
@ cowboyharley: yeah like i said i read all the tweets and you’re just unprofessional and refuse to acknowledge when people tell u something u said was harmful
MizTee Franklin: Good thing your opinion isn’t canon.
which is.... certainly a response... I guess.
Like genuinely, I think this would have ended quickly if she’d just, idk, apologized to the lesbians she hurt when she said she hates lesbians???? It’s not that hard to understand why that was a harmful statement that people took issue with, lady.
It wouldn’t have been that hard to fix this situation, at all. Literally she just needed to say “hey, I don’t hate lesbians, sorry!”, but no, she doubled down and has continued to just make it worse and then said she wasn’t joking.
Like I don’t understand how she can say she was “agreeing” with the hate comments in a sarcastic manner, and then turn around and immediately say in her next comment that she wasn’t joking.
Those are contradictory statements.
And I’ve seen some people trying to dismiss her comments because she’s queer and like y’all
That. Is. Not. An. Excuse.
You can be hateful towards and spread harmful statements about other members of the LGBT community even if you are part of it.
And I’m not going to stand by and pretend that what she said wasn’t harmful and didn’t hurt a lot of people because it did.
