To be fair that’s basically the case for straight characters too. Hollywood is fine with normal-looking men but all women have to be supermodels to even get a role (with a few exceptions, of course)
A lot of cartoonists have pointed out that most alien races are drawn with the males looking completely alien, and the females looking like hot human women with some makeup.
and for a while all the movie stars looked like Harvey Weinstein’s preferred type…
Hollywood is fine with normal-looking men but all women have to be supermodels to even get a role
Some American pointed out they love watxwhing UK shows becase that’s not the case, they commemed that Vera (from the TV show) os made to look dishevelled for example.
The Bert and Ernie archetype has a lot to answer for.
Male gaze dominates. Women are required to be attractive. Men aren’t, unless they’re the main character.
The male gays dominate, that they do
That’s odd, because as a straight man I find gay men more appealing than lesbians 🤔🤔🤔
Yeah, Ive seen so little of gay man representation that when I do it feels almost like finding a shiny pokemon. Lesbians are not threatening to the bigot’s eye and thus if media shows gayness, it’s almost always lesbian gayness
Are you sure? I’ve seen plenty male gay family member representation in series and such, but almost zero lesbian representation.
I can think of several series and sitcoms with some male gay couple; modern family, shameless and Brooklyn 99 come to my mind, the only one where there’s some lesbianism that comes to my mind is “la que se avecina” , which is a trash show anyway and both women are bi, not even lesbians.
Brooklyn 99 has a whole story line about Rosa coming out as bi. That’s not exactly the same thing as writing her Lesbian, but it’s representation.
Bi women are allowed to be lesbians if they want
Maybe I just don’t see the right stuff, actually that’s the most probable explanation
I wonder if your phone would do that really satisfying “rr-rr-RRRRRR-RRRRRRR-rr” vibration pattern like it does encountering a shiny in Pokémon Go whenever you face a genuine representation of a gay man in a public space?
Attack: 9
HP: 8
Authenticity: 15
One of the main characters in Agatha All Along is a gay man, at least according to the Talmud. According to Agatha he’s a kid
Gay men are trying to be attractive to men after all, while lesbians are not so I guess it’s not super surprising. Might mean you’re not exactly a zero on the Kinsey Scale though.
That was the joke
Consider: “Bubbly femme” and “Goth”.
