The thing is, if you're writing a narrative that primarily consists of women, of course one or more of them will be queer. The fact that we are conditioned to be surprised when that happens or not expect it to happen at all is a major problem.

It creeps around the corners and slowly influences your media experience and then it becomes this stupid balancing act of "should I watch this because it has queer characters?" and the answer is no. If the narrative is poisoned with shitty ideals, then it is not worth it.

It also tells networks that it's the bare minimum. That's the goddamn problem. Networks KNOW this. They have been using queer audiences to their advantages. The writers string their queer fans along at the bare minimum cause they know it's all they need to do.

They just have to have 1 or 2 queer characters and make sure they do not die. You can see it a mile away, but so many refuse to accept it. They choose to ignore awful storylines that are blatantly racist or sexist just for queer content.

And this is the the kick: you're telling these writers they can get away with it.