I wasn't going to answer this, but I changed my mind, because in all honesty this suggestion is not helpful at all. Plus, I don't quite think it's fair to put the onus of responsibility on us to teach people what a butch lesbian is. If people actually care, the comic should prompt them to look deeper into it. If not, that's really not our problem.
You also suggest we change things without even specifying what would be helpful to change it to. How can we fix something to make it "less confusing" when all you've done is list things that are confusing but then follow it up with 'oh, but you shouldn't have to change these things'. I mean, you're absolutely right, we shouldn't but how do you want us to proceed exactly?
"Make it more clear that Storm is a girl" as in how, make her more feminine looking? MMM. No.
Storm's gender has only ever really been questioned on YouTube. And I'm gonna be honest, YouTube isn't exactly populated by people with reading comprehension. Or people who have the best view of LGBT+ representation.
This is evidenced by the amount of times it has been stated in the comments of the dub episodes that Storm is a girl and yet people have chosen to ask repeatedly to this day instead of just... Reading the dozens of other comments that ask the exact same question and get the exact same answer.
To be honest, we sometimes can't help but feel like some people don't like the answers that have been given and if they ask a few more dozen times, we'll finally just say that Storm is a male and Diamond is a female and the world will be set to rights. What can I say? YouTube and its commenters don't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to these issues.
And I don't think we should have to hold the hands of these people either way. Google is free.
For reference, though, Storm is referred to with masculine pronouns exactly once. Which is when Hopeful spots her and assumes she's a male because of her mane. All the other times? She's referred to by she/her.
We can't exactly have characters regurgitate her pronouns an unnatural amount of times, and we can't exactly force people to read these pronouns either.
We're also only redoing the first two chapters and that's it. Storm's gender is stated in Chapter 3 where it's important. If people miss it, they miss it. But they can't say it's confusing when they simply aren't reading entire words in a sentence while simultaneously ignoring context clues.
Also, I don't know your reasoning as to why we "overestimate the amount of readers that know what butch means". The comic doesn't use the word butch, we do. So I fail to see where the confusion is on that front. She's a lioness with a mane, it's a naturally occurring phenomenon. Not exactly quantum physics.
The vast majority of our readers do know what butch means anyway. If people don't know, that's their problem. We're not gonna accommodate people who scratch their heads like cavemen instead of choosing to listen to the countless times they've been told Storm is a girl because they can't fathom that not all girls are stereotypically effeminate. - Cat
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