One time I saw someone tweet they liked Mia because she was a transfem lesbian with a crossbow and I thought. Okay but literally none of that is true, you're talking about an original character. Which you're more than welcome to write, just like you're welcome to go full AU in your fics and explore what that version of Mia would be like... but what's the point of claiming any of that is canon?
And often the point is that they feel uncomfortable with how Mia *is* portrayed in canon, vis a vis men. Insisting she's a lesbian often seems to be about removing all of that from the board as much as possible. And they end up with a "lesbian" character that crushes on men, likes men, talks about men, forges bonds mainly with men... because they're also not putting in any effort into exploring those changes in Mia ;_;
I don't know. Lately I've been thinking a lot about how a non-insignificant amount of characters in the western canon come across as profoundly white, cisheterosexual and christian in their demeanor and in their values, regardless of whether the author stated they were any of those things (because for a lot of them, it goes without saying), and while fandom claims to be transformative, when it comes to exploring and speculating about how any alteration from that traid could shape a character, the vast majority of what you find out there is quite surface level. Not to mention that, of course, fandom often puts more focus on how these presumed white, cishet, christian characters could be something else... than they do on non-white, non-cishet, non-christian characters LOL.
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One time I saw someone tweet they liked Mia because she was a transfem lesbian with a crossbow and I thought. Okay but literally none of that is true, you're talking about an original character. Which you're more than welcome to write, just like you're welcome to go full AU in your fics and explore what that version of Mia would be like... but what's the point of claiming any of that is canon?
And often the point is that they feel uncomfortable with how Mia *is* portrayed in canon, vis a vis men. Insisting she's a lesbian often seems to be about removing all of that from the board as much as possible. And they end up with a "lesbian" character that crushes on men, likes men, talks about men, forges bonds mainly with men... because they're also not putting in any effort into exploring those changes in Mia ;_;
I don't know. Lately I've been thinking a lot about how a non-insignificant amount of characters in the western canon come across as profoundly white, cisheterosexual and christian in their demeanor and in their values, regardless of whether the author stated they were any of those things (because for a lot of them, it goes without saying), and while fandom claims to be transformative, when it comes to exploring and speculating about how any alteration from that traid could shape a character, the vast majority of what you find out there is quite surface level. Not to mention that, of course, fandom often puts more focus on how these presumed white, cishet, christian characters could be something else... than they do on non-white, non-cishet, non-christian characters LOL.