brown-lesbian:

i’m so tired of liberal media creating gay-coded characters that end up being straight all along. characters like janis ian from mean girls or manny delgado from modern family are written to seem like they’re gay and every aspect of their personality indicates that they’re gay, except! they’re not! straight people are soooo progressive cause the characters they make are so complex and complicated that they’re basically gay but not!

and it’s not just bad that we’re deprived of representation once again, but characters who act like us and look like us and emulate us are jokes. these characters are “weird” and “annoying” and “different from everyone else.” they’re bullied for being the way they are, but oh no, it’s funny! and straight audiences reaaally think it’s funny and absorb it and internalize that behaviour.

straight liberal media will create characters like this and applaude themselves for “diversifying” their shows and movies because “straight people who seem gay matter too and need representation as well!!!”

straight masculine women and straight feminine men exist, but there’s nothing revolutionary about portraying them in the media. not ever on the same level as it will be to represent actual gay people.