• Graphine@lemmy.world
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    Is it just me, or do more and more women seem to have this obsession with lesbians in movies? More specifically lesbian romance.

    Maybe I’m seeing things with different glasses. So help me out here. Something has just changed over the years.

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      It’s probably just because people can be more openly gay now than they used to and they want representation in the media they consume. You couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.

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      I might get a lot of flack for this, but I do think there is a growing want to be somewhere in the rainbow spectrum because it is seen as “in” right now. If you belong somewhere on that group you are more interesting, more special. At least that’s the, subtle and sometimes not so subtle, sentiment I’m sentiment.

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        Honestly I do agree.

        I’m not dismissing the fact that there are legitimate homosexuals and whatnot. But it does kind of feel like being in that spectrum is seen as the “hit” right now. Like this special group. Especially in teens.

        Of course I could be terribly wrong but maybe…nowadays it feels like being straight or not in that group is seen as a bad thing. Like if you’re straight, you’re actually bi and just in the closet.

        Maybe as time goes on and being LGBT becomes seen as a normal part of society (which it will) it won’t be so frowned upon whether or not you’re straight, or in that spectrum. I just think we should be accepting of either orientation or gender instead of pushing a specific agenda.

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          on the other hand, I self ID’d as straight for 35 years until I felt safe not to do so. So it looked like I just appeared in the early 2020s

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        I have only been on the federverse for like two or three weeks. I meant in popular media and actually even in my real life interactions.

        I have heard things like I tried to be gay, or I wish I was a lesbian, etc. I do think that it’s influenced by media having this archetype of the cool/suave/fun/wise/good-crazy interesting side-character friend. Oftentimes these characters aren’t fully developed and their whole personality is that they are not straight, but they have this cool friend group thing going on and everyone likes them.

        Don’t get me wrong, there are fantastic examples of gay characters in media where they aren’t just the token diversity character, it too often we have quirky-dirky (but flat) interesting person whose only defining quality is that they’re not boring ol’ heterosexual

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          Pretty much

          Lesbian romances in games like Life is strange true colours and shows like The Owl House make me go awwww like no other media does, and lesbian porn is just gross. I cant stand watching it (I am lesbian for reference)

          Edit: sorry for necroposting

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      People love behind the scene movie facts. People also love subversive movie facts (see wizard of oz dark facts and rumors). People also love lesbians, so that’s where these rumors come from.