![]() These characters are reduced to one-dimensional pastiches, and end up seeming hollow, fake, and not actually representative of how real people-queer or otherwise-live. It’s not that straight creators have never met a queer person before (hopefully), but it often feels like they’re writing their queer characters to check a box or signify an entire community. Half of these shows are led by and created by queer people, who can bring their firsthand experience to the writers room, but for the most part, those led by straight creators are lacking in authenticity. I can’t believe we’ve reached a point, as a culture, where I can even think something like this, but we don’t need a queer character in everything I’d rather see a genuine queer story than a refracted queer character that feels cobbled together, or like a studio note gone wrong. Lately, it feels like every TV show has thrown a half-baked queer character into a pool of heterosexuality and taken the ladder away like a cruel tween playing Sims.
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