♔ small eyes, thick thighs (shoujo) wrote in lgbtq,
yes yes yes all of this! the fetishization of gay men, but also bi-women in particular. HISTORIES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE ESP WRT GAY MEN!! STOP THAT!!!! really tragic coming out stories for queer characters that drive their entire adult lives? i'm over that, especially if the writer isn't queer. it's exploitative and it needs to stop. i have a deep discomfort for bi-women characters who have a salacious history with women but only date men in game or are only interested in male characters in game. trans characters i've encountered are very tropey and played by not-trans pbs, same thing wrt sexual violence/coming out tragedies.
intersectionality is pretty much not explored in rp, qpoc characters engage in queer spaces in ways that i don't recognize in rp. it's very "i just want to play a poc face for the sake of playing a poc face" without actual consideration of how certain poc interact with queer spaces. does that make sense?
i agree that it's not always appropriation/fetishization but it's hard for me to see past that when the character isn't well represented/researched/portrayed. sorry not sorry i have high standards and i'm going to subject you to them