Oh Dear

My psychologist: You have to, do things

me: 

Gokushufudou: The Way Of The House Husband Chapter 19

This time: Tatsu, like any good Yakuza protagonist, suddenly has to deal with an invasion of the black suits!

We’re caught up on the skipped chapters, so you can stop worrying about if you’ve missed any!

Wife: okay!

I’m gay.

And while I can appreciate gay women in media, I do not feel the need to blindly consume a product BECAUSE it has one or more gay women.  If your product is awful, if it doesn’t appeal to me, if it doesn’t interest me, no amount of lesbians, no amount of girls I find attractive, will change that.  I didn’t start watching Adventure Time after PB and Marceline kissed, I didn’t watch She-Ra for the lesbian undertones.  My tastes are more complex than “Lesbians = Must consume”.

What’s more, hamfistedly shoving a lesbian into something or writing a character to hyperfixate on them being gay, is not going to will points to me.  Awkwardly revealing a character is gay for brownie points is just pandering and, frankly, I find it a bit condescending.  A character being gay does not make them good or well written and, frankly, I’d rather a GOOD character who isn’t gay compared to a BAD character who is.

And, lastly, I think that if you market your product using the fact that it has lesbians in it, fuck you.  I’m sick of my sexuality being used as a marketing tool.  Bioware got on my shitlist when they trotted out a “proper lesbian character” (their words) in Dragon Age 3 during press events.  I HATED how blatant TLOU2 was at E3, devoting nearly a third of the event to retreading that Ellie was gay, rather than showing more gameplay.

I’m so sick of media (and mindless consumers of said media) being so obsessed with representing me, bungling it to appear ‘woke’ and then exploiting my sexuality for easy ass pats.

And I’m also sick of people who act like I’m somehow wrong when I point this shit out.  No, I will not put up with dogshit because it panders to me.  Thank you very much.