I fully admit to having leaned towards option B time and again and I am really trying to stop because I know it is untrue and not cool. Though I am also the person who really does wish it was possible for the media to keep pointless/creepy hetero relationships out of everything and actually present the possibility of male and female characters being able to be friends together without the need to hook up because it is in fact much more common than you'd think. Hell I would just love to find a series or something that didn't focus on relationships or hooking up in any matter because gdit.
yeah defs the only people who get to be MEANINGFULLY FRIENDSHIPPED in any capacity in the vast majority of mainstream media is DUDES, because ladies only exist for romance and their only interactions with one another involve CAT FIGHTS amirite!!! no way could they get on, they're too busy COMPETING! for the ATTENTION! of DUDES!
BUT YEAH mostly rn I am annoyed by people using the fact that poorly-done slash exists as an excuse to justify their internalised homophobia. BECAUSE BOY DOES IT COME UP A LOT
Unless the msm decides that it is time to APPEAL TO LADYWALLETS and so they manufacture LADY FRIENDSHIPS that never existed before, because fleshing out the few friendships between ladies that already existed would be too hard or something.
And then the LADY CHARACTERS can be FRIENDS and SUPPORT EACH OTHER through such ladytravails as BREAST CANCER and BAD BREAK-UPS. Oh yeah.
Sorry, am I giving the impression that I'm bitter? I'm totally not bitter. /lies
I agree with you on that second part of your comment - though for me, it's more often the case with books. For example, I was reading a Thriller with both a male and a female protagonist once and was really enjoying it until they threw a totally unfitting romance subplot into it. I think I didn't even finish it because I was so annoyed...
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the only people who get to be MEANINGFULLY FRIENDSHIPPED in any capacity in the vast majority of mainstream media is DUDES, because ladies only exist for romance and their only interactions with one another involve CAT FIGHTS amirite!!! no way could they get on, they're too busy COMPETING! for the ATTENTION! of DUDES!
BUT YEAH mostly rn I am annoyed by people using the fact that poorly-done slash exists as an excuse to justify their internalised homophobia. BECAUSE BOY DOES IT COME UP A LOT
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And then the LADY CHARACTERS can be FRIENDS and SUPPORT EACH OTHER through such ladytravails as BREAST CANCER and BAD BREAK-UPS. Oh yeah.
Sorry, am I giving the impression that I'm bitter? I'm totally not bitter. /lies
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