[ SECRET POST #6848 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6848 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this so much. I would have loved something like Heartstopper 15 years ago, but now it falls in the same category as het pairings in canon. I'm not even sure what the last het pairing is that I genuinely shipped. Stuff gets so same-y once romance is in the mix and I don't get why.

[(Anonymous)]

My theory is that it falls under the "he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it more obvious?" assumption that a man and a woman in proximity for any length of time in a story MUST be at the very least attracted to each other. If they weren't going to add a romance, they wouldn't bother putting a woman in (because women are for romance, men are for plot *sigh*).

The gay stories went against the grain; there was no such assumption, and you had to show why these men or women would risk sometimes their own lives to be with each other. Just being in proximity didn't cut it. But now that gays are more accepted in mainstream movies and tv, they're now defaulting to "two gay men are next to each other, can it be any more obvious???" Uuuugh.