#the “this could have been handled a different way” tag

[mangosaurus]

yes i know yasammy are getting back together next season. yes i know their relationship will be stronger for it. yes i know it makes sense that this happened, and i know it will probably result in a lot of necessary character growth for both yaz and sammy. that doesn't change the fact that the optics of directly juxtaposing the (presumably but not definitively cishet, if only on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty") white m/f couple we've had for four entire episodes living their best lives and kissing just as many times if not more times on-screen than yasammy have since they got together in jwcc s5 against the sapphic couple (both parties being woc) breaking up (arguably for the third time already, since we've seen them separate twice before they were ever made an official couple) is ... not good. and that gia inadverdently centering her own feelings in sammy's breakup felt like the added insult to injury for a lot people. multiple things can be true at once