bro I don’t understand why everyone is switching up on Alicia. Like yeah she told Leighton she couldn’t be with someone so closeted, but she NEVER forced her to come out. She actually said that it was ok if she never came out. She just had to respect herself and her own mental health so she ended things with Leighton. But she NEVEr said “you need to come out or we’re done” she basically said “I need to respect myself and my boundaries so we can’t do this anymore.” WHICH IS VALID. Look, I’ve had a girlfriend say the same thing when I was closeted. It’s not about forcing you out of the closet, it’s about respecting her own needs.
And as for the thing with Tatum, she never acted out of character. She says from the very beginning that she thinks school functions are lame and it is very doubtful that that will ever change. She was introduced as a doppelgänger for Leighton and she remains as such. BUT she is a doppelgänger of early season 1 Leighton. She is the Leighton who wanted to room with anyone other than the main 4. She is the Leighton that acted like a snob and thought everyone not “on her level” was lame. So it was not out of character for her to be a bitch at the women’s center fundraiser. Early season 1 Leighton would’ve acted the SAME WAY. Yes, Tatum was sweet when getting dinner with the dads, but early season 1 Leighton was sweet too, as seen by her offering to pay for Kimberly and her mother without telling anyone. However, Leighton has undergone so much transformation that now she isn’t the same judgmental bitch she once was. But Tatum is at her core because she is a callback to early Leighton.
Look, I’m not saying it wasn’t rushed, but we as a fandom should not be putting Tatum on a pedestal for being something she wasn’t. She was a judgmental bitch and we knew that from the very beginning. People were just caught by her moment of sweetness, but like Leighton says, she doesn’t know Leighton on a deeper level.
