Except like…the biases and instincts that have influenced every other genre writer who’s never been able to treat wlw characters as their own people and deserving of their own stories.
I want to do like a study and compare this to soooo many other things around the world. I mean, I assume the poor treatment is the result of the intersection of female character, already pushed a bit to the side, with LGBT and really often, like double diversity points in one token character, so also a WOC. I mean, I don’t think those writers say to themselves, this character isn’t as important. But it shows, doesn’t it? We’ll see how it ends and then dissect every little thing, lol.