Psst, lbpq representation/girls loving each other romantically and/or sexually doesn’t inherently threaten representation for girls loving each other platonically. Lesbians have friends. Bi women have friends. We can be friends with straight lady characters, too! We have besties and sisters and moms and daughters and mentors and bosses and teammates.
Our presence in a story doesn’t magically wipe all traces of non-shippy girl relationships from the plot, and acting like it does just makes me feel like people think f/f love is a contaminant. Stop that.
And this is yet another reason why it’s good to have more than two women characters in any one piece of fiction, so that if two of them are in a romantic relationship, either or both of them can also have platonic relationships with other women.
Decent female representation means more than one or two women having to represent the entirety of women’s behavior and experience.
Completely correct. Mainstream media fiction doesn’t only have a women problem, it has a women-interacting-with-each-other problem. Think of all the fandoms where there’s “a girl” and a bunch of guys.
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