The thing is that this isn't actually a counterargument to my point, because it didn't address my point.
If you think I have an issue with people writing sapphic stuff, you've never read my posts before--which is fine! But this isn't in any way a complaint about people writing sapphic stuff or about them decentering men in what they read and write or about saying that female characters should or shouldn't be written in romances.
It's also not about fandom, particularly, though I realize I am unable to make a post without people assuming it is about fandom.
This is about a very specific phenomenon I see sometimes where, as I say in the original post, people talk as though the only way to make any female character interesting is by putting her in a relationship with another woman.
What spurred this post, if you're curious, was seeing a post about a gender reversal of a typical straight trope--and then probably dozens of replies with people going "well I would just have her be with a woman instead of a man" as though they were unable to conceptualize talking about interesting framings of gendered tropes because they couldn't imagine a woman being with a man being narratively interesting.
It's also about people who dismiss all straight romance novels or romantasy as hetslop or fairy porn or whatever and say the only interesting versions are queer (or specifically sapphic), as though 1) there isn't a ton of absolute garbage queer romance and romantasy books but also 2) they, again, can't imagine finding any interest in reading about a woman being in love with a man.
It's about people who dismiss stories about M/F love between non-white characters or other marginalized characters and insist that the only books worth reading are queer books.
It's about people who say "why would I want to read about a woman being with a man when I could read about her being with a woman?" as though they are not cutting out a huge fraction of human life and history and literature like that.
And if we're talking about fandom, it's about people who will only read and write gen/non-shippy fics about male characters, not female characters, who can't imagine writing about a female character's life unless she's having a relationship with another female character. And about people who use a lack of female characters who they can ship together as an excuse not to read about female characters at all, because they "don't want to read straight fanfiction" and so only read about men.
Dismissing women's attraction to men as inherently uninteresting or not worth thinking or talking about isn't better when it's being done in the name of queerness than in any other name.
I am genuinely not sure where you got the idea that I was saying that people shouldn't write sapphic stuff, or that it was bad that people did that, or that sapphic people shouldn't explore fantasies in fandom or whatever.
And I have no idea where you got that I was complaining about the overrepresentation of sapphic media from my post, but I sure wasn't!
