Putting aside the "Ortegas is gay because she has short hair and wears vests" implication, I'm even more intrigued by the suggestion that the presence of a "giant lizard woman" is a factor that infuses the episode with homoeroticism.
Sapphic women like to fuck lizard people, how is this difficult to understand?
What do you think the G in LGBT stands for
See? Detached Nacelle gets it!
That’s really reaching. This is a story plot other movies have done before with male characters, like Hell in the Pacific, and it didn’t have queer subtext then. Just because there’s two same-sex protagonists in the story doesn’t automatically translate to subtext.
Especially not this season when it’s dialed back a lot of the queer representation it had in the first couple seasons.
I haven't seen Hell in the Pacific, but I could probably discern queerness from it lol.
I do think it's fascinating that one bisexual woman suggests, "Oh, it's a Sapphic story!" and a bunch of men (?) need to come out and tell her she's wrong, though lol
Ortegas is butch, but that doesn't say much about her sexuality. We actually know nothing about her sexuality or gender identity, other than some stuff from The Elysian Kingdom which is almost certainly unimportant (since La'an was also a prissy princess there).
I'd prefer if they play against type by making Erica a butch straight woman. Though the show has had a real dearth of queerness, other than Chapel causally dropping being bi in the first season, which was never addressed again.
Cishet women don't need represensation, and quite frankly, queer people do have ways of communicating their queerness to other queer people without literally saying the words, "I am some flavor of queer, how do you do, my fellow flavor of the rainbow?"
Dear lord. There are no lines. You cut down the tree, printed the paper and drew on the lines.
Also queer-presenting is right up there with all the stereotypes that LGBT community has to live with constantly. You're not a real man if you're gay. You wear overalls and have short hair if you're a lesbian. et al.
And even if she were... there's no evidence of it being evidenced here in this story. It was a story of survival.
SNW has shown it's not a writing that it deft at subtlety or subtext either. They'd probably have the Gorn in a rainbow shuttle going "Hey gurrrl" if that was the intention.
You're preaching to the choir. I'm literally a bisexual woman. I say the episode and my first thought was, "Oh, so they're starcrossed lovers on opposite sides of a war." Like, part of what makes the ending such a let down is that we aren't going to see more of this Gorn character explored in general. This was a perfect opportunity to hit multiple birds with a single stone and instead we get the most boring ending imaginable.
I feel like Gorn Pride would be less about same-sex attraction and more about gutting human captives alive.
This, too, is appealing the queer women.
