#as a lesbian marvel rep sucks and we CAN complain

[pruesgaultier]

9am rant, agatha all along edition

saw this post about marvel queer rep and i disagree, HEAVILY

here’s why

A) singlingout out lesbians is very weird and malicious. i definitely don't agree with the homophobia cause ew that's weird asf, but im gonna assume it wasn't just us. we don't have to be happy about ALL queer rep just because we have so little. i don't have to be happy about queer rep that doesn't represent me, sorry it does nothing for me that 2 boys kissed in disney media because they did it in eternals (terrible movie btw) and none of you gave a damn (and outside of the movie being bad, i have my reasons as to why im supposed to care because it's y'all favorite white boy of the month getting his rep? no thanks.

B) which brings me to my last point. i know this was a billy centric ep, but we already knew he was gay from the first episode, why are acting like this kiss was groundbreaking for queer rep? marvel has many queer or queer coded female characters who never ever get to kiss or get so little screen time, we never see them develop. to actually get a kiss between agatha and rio would ve been much more groundbreaking. i love the fact that we KNOW they're canon and we see it in their own emotional and intimate scenes, and im not even saying a kiss would 'solidify' their canon-ess but if marvel truly wanted to be groundbreaking it would've been agathario kiss and that's just that

C) i'm going to remind you of something very important: all rep for a group of people isn't good rep and it's very limiting to that group of people. and this is something i know as a black woman ACTIVELY seeing people who look like her phased out of hollywood or only seeing people light enough to pass a paper bag test, so no i wont be happy that marvel gave us something they gave us 3 years ago. because they had 3 years to FINALLY do something about it in an extremely popular show, and defaulted to what they decided the norm was in terms of queer rep.

a lot of you have rep you want but since it’s not with the“right” people, you dont like it nor do you care

anyways, that's for coming to ted talk, lesbians i love you and no i really don't care about this "queer rep" in question, sawri