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> Fucks given after all, I guess? I knew that was coming eventually ;) You make several valid points. I will check out the video you referenced. On the other

> Fucks given after all, I guess? I knew that was coming eventually ;) You make several valid points. I will check out the video you referenced. On the other hand - I have wondered if maybe Hollywood is over-represented by LGBT persons (not that it's a bad thing) and thus gay screenwriters/investors/producers are of course going to include their own stories in the things they create. I could be totally wrong here, just an idea I have had. What is few to some is many to others, it seems. Maybe I just watch a lot of progressive stuff. There are a ton of teenage lesbian characters in a lot of stuff on Netflix; enough to make me think being lesbian is in vogue.

krapp 8y ago
>I have wondered if maybe Hollywood is over-represented by LGBT persons (not that it's a bad thing) and thus gay screenwriters/investors/producers are of course going to include their own stories in the things they create. I don't know about being "over-represented," but I don't think it's unreasonable that there is a newer generation of LGBT writers and showrunners interested in writing the sort of stories that represent them, or that they never got to see when they were younger and struggling with their identity. That's not an agenda so much as writing what you know, though. And let's not beat around the bush - if all a show wanted was token representation, "teenage lesbian" is the most palatable form it can take in a heteronormative, male-dominant culture.