Judging the female characters harsher than their white male counterparts has always been a Degrassi fandom weak point.

Internet culture today makes me worried about whether Degrassi, a show that's built on characters being repeatedly problematic, could work in the future. https://twitter.com/degrassinocontx/status/1254516914363068416

For instance, could Degrassi fans forgive a character in 2020 who did this to a gay character:

•Demand they date a straight person
•Insult and threaten to out them
•Try to physically harm them in gym class
•Out them anyway by writing a gay slur on a public bathroom wall

•Show visible disgust b/c they assume the gay character is attracted to them, as if gay people are sexual deviants
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Because all of these things were done by one of Degrassi's most beloved characters, Spinner Mason, circa 2003.