Queer erasure makes me really really angry tbh. Statistically 8% of the population has had at least one homosexual encounter so out of the hundred speaking roles(or so) we have at least 8 should be queer or have had a queer experience.(or course if anything we should have disproportionately more to make up for the lack of it up until now – we can never go back and insert PoC and Queerness into old TV shows and films that still get repeated ad nauseum). We have like… 1. Who also happens to be the 1 out of ANOTHER 8% that hasn’t turned out to be evil or dead… PoC.
That’s not what I’m doing! I said I wanted it. I want more diverstiy on this show. It needs to happen. It’s a problem. What part of my post even sounded like I wanted “erasure”
Also having a “token” gay charter is still much better than nothing. Let’s not forget that Uhara on Star Trek would be viewed as a Token black character back in the day.
Maybe it would be better than nothing, but I’m pretty sure there would be outcries of “too easy! You didn’t push yourself hard enough”
And ok to Uhura, but that was 1966. We’ve come some ways since then. We don’t need tokenism.
So far the moral of the story is that only straight, white, ablebodies cispeople can have happy endings… which is kind of really uncool.
Again. Did I say ANYTHING that implies I think that is “cool?” No. I want it. I’m rather insulted that you’re taking my words and making it sound like I’m against the idea. I literally said up front that I want it.