The Problem with Cartoons Representing LGBTQ

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In modern cartoons, cartoons have been pushing their boundaries such as death, race, and world issues. When shows try represent LGBTQ, it’s not well done. I’ve seen a lot of cartoons representing it but none of them did it perfectly showing a true love for the same-sex. Not saying that their bad or anything, it’s great that shows are showing LGBTQ but it’s annoying how they’re handling it. 

Most shows like Star vs The Forces of Evil, We Bare Bears, and Clarence, will show a LGBT character as side, minor, or one-off  characters, for couple seconds or few minutes of screen-time. 

When shows do this to a major cast of characters, they make them look cute and adorable but the writing of it is pretty typical and cliche love stories. Sometimes might even rushing it to be lovers. 

An example of this is Steven Universe where they show Ruby and Sapphire. We barely see them, their love story is really cliche by love at first sight nonsense, and the worst part of all is the staff are basically making them look adorable. 

Last example of this is The Legend of Korra, Korrasami (Korra x Asami). Now this one has to be the most rushed relationship I’ve ever seen. There’s not a lot of evidence to show that they’re lovers, except the finale in the show. 

Then the comics. It basically showing the readers how cute they are together but story is suffering because of that 

The only cartoon show that’s doing right is Adventure Time, Bubbline (Princess Bubblegum x Marceline) 

In conclusion, most cartoons representing LGBT aren’t that good, most of them I’ve seen are cliche love stories that trying to make them cute and barely any screen. The only media that show LGBT are anime and live-action shows. So I hope in the future, we get better representation of LGBT. 

1. The entire point of the “Something Entirely New” montage during The Answer was to show that Ruby and Sapphire were slowly falling in love. There was an initial attraction, of course, but it wasn’t love at first sight like you claim. Furthermore there’s absolutely nothing wrong with their relationship being portrayed as adorable. Not to mention you’re completely ignoring that we saw them at their low point during Keystone Motel, so they’re not as one note as you’re making them out to be.

2. Just because we didn’t see them be overly flirtatious on screen doesn’t mean Korrasami was rushed. To understand what I mean, check out this post. And keep in mind, when they walked into the spirit portal at the end of the series, that was the start of their relationship, after 2 seasons of building up their friendship. 

3. There’s nothing wrong with cliche, saccharine love stories for same sex pairings. For years those kinds of stories only went to straight pairings so we’re entitled to a few of our own.