Is there a reason why there's more lesbians than gays in western animation? - /co/ (#149455609) [Archived: 329 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:58:37 AM No.149455609
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:01:45 AM No.149455629
Yeah. What are you retarded?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:28:11 AM No.149455785
>>149455609 (OP)
Because it's not gay to jerk off to lesbians.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:37:00 AM No.149455836
because male showrunners are perverts who want to look at young women kissing
it's safe lgbt
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:50:10 AM No.149455896
>>149455609 (OP)
Boys kissing!!!
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:56:51 AM No.149455922
>>149455609 (OP)
Women are pretty and they smell nice.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:02:25 AM No.149455959
>>149455609 (OP)
People are more accepting of lesbians than they are of gays. It's simple.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:07:05 AM No.149455988
>>149455609 (OP)
Fags are disgusting and lesbains aren't real.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:09:43 AM No.149456003
>>149455988
>Fags are disgusting
I think the ones in the webm are pretty cute actually
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lovecraft’s cat
7/19/2025, 9:21:18 AM No.149456065
>>149456003
Aren’t they irl brothers?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:22:33 AM No.149456072
>>149455609 (OP)
Gay men in California, generally speaking, are huge normalfags because the have had easy access to homo sex since they were old enough to sneak out of the house. So if a gay dude is going into media he's probably not dealing with cartoons.
Male cartoon guys are weirdos like Dobson or based perverts like the old guard (though the old guard will just give you a male MC with a straight love interest).
>Be low T man (male)
>have your super awesome female MC
>make show
>need to give her a love interest because that's what stories do
>Shit we made every male character in this show a simpering retard or a fag. There's no way she would go for any of these dudes.
>Also male-female relationships and sex are inherently patriarchal and rape-coded
>Also the male sex drive is inherently evil
>if a woman ever shows interest in a man that is just internalized misogyny
>give her a no-personality GF. GF will probably cry at some point in the show
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:22:54 AM No.149456074
>>149456065
Nah, they're an Onlyfans couple (well, ex couple)
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:28:20 AM No.149456099
>>149455609 (OP)
It's a safer choice, men can go full yurinigger about it while autistic lesbian/bi women can harp about representation
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:28:28 AM No.149456100
>>149456003
Your anal parasites are tricking you into thinking that, take ivermectin
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:28:36 AM No.149456102
>>149456074
What was the name?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:29:52 AM No.149456111
>>149456074
Name of couple?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:41:39 AM No.149456166
>>149456111
>>149456102
bashful4200
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:53:00 AM No.149456229
lesbians are less offensive to homophobes than male gays

cartoons that feature lesbians but not gays are just pandering to homophobes
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:55:53 AM No.149456245
>>149456166
Thanks.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:42:32 AM No.149456414
>>149455609 (OP)
Gross
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:23:16 AM No.149456562
>>149455609 (OP)
Cute!
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:24:42 AM No.149456566
>>149455609 (OP)
Because there are more lesbians irl as well, and art imitates life.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:25:23 AM No.149456569
>>149456229
The actual reason
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:28:58 AM No.149456582
>>149455609 (OP)
Straight men are more threatened by gay men than lesbian women. That's the reason.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:31:26 AM No.149456591
>>149456229
>>149456582
Retarded reason. Fuck straight men.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:34:06 AM No.149456598
>>149456591
>Fuck straight men
Don't mind if I do!
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:35:55 AM No.149456605
>>149455609 (OP)
The actual psychology behind it is that lesbianism is closer to the modern cultural norm and so it has a broader range of acceptance. In modern western culture it's expected for women to be more openly affectionate, emotional and touchy., however over the past 150 years or so, masculinity has culturally trended towards 'hardness'. (i.e. lack of open affection, emotion, or touchiness). All those things in men where, for a long time, increasingly considered undesirable, to the point of even tangtential things like say dancing or poetry or saying "I love you" out loud being somehow "gay" or some "pansy" shit.

What this ultimately means is that female-female relationships, even totally straight ones, can involve the girls being all over each other. Straight women can cuddle or hold hands or get drunk and make out and most people aren't going to care. Female-male relationships also cause no fuss, because there is something of an exception given to males for the above "showing affection is pussy shit" if it is done in relation to a woman, the woman is affectionate so it's okay for a guy to do otherwise 'iffy' stuff for the sake of their girlfriend/wife/etc.

But male-male relationships end up with two people who society expects to not be affectionate. Neither one of them is supposed to be overly physical or emotionally expressive and so both of them doing so with the buffer of a female presence is jarring.

tl;dr all lesbian shit can be written off as "women, amirite" but gay shit acts more directly against the expected norms of recent social acceptability. Making lesbians a much, much safer less objectionable choice for any network/studio to include.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:01:41 PM No.149456684
>>149455609 (OP)
Lot of female writers and lesbians are easier to sell to straight men and women alike.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:04:11 PM No.149456692
>Is there a reason why there's more lesbians than gays in western animation?
Because the first animated show to air on American television staring openly queer characters was led by a lesbian couple. Earlier normalization means you get more products off the back of that normalization.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:07:34 PM No.149456696
>>149456692
Which was that?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:11:26 PM No.149456708
>>149456696
.hack//SIGN in 2003. Protagonist and tritagonist are a lesbian couple. Although the protagonist isn't actually revealed to be a woman until midway through the show.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:15:44 PM No.149456721
>>149456708
Also more shows need to do this sort of shit to troll homophobes.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:16:13 PM No.149456725
>>149456708
They aren't really openly gay if it never goes beyond strong implication.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:23:39 PM No.149456746
>>149456721
Nice projection, homophile.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:30:32 PM No.149456773
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>>149456072
>if a gay dude is going into media he's probably not dealing with cartoons.
Designs by a gay man who also draws big gay bears. Monster High was also created by a gay. I think they’re just too based to be allowed to do it any more.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:38:36 PM No.149456813
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>>149456725
>They aren't really openly gay if it never goes beyond strong implication.
They are explicitly a couple in sequel material so that's not a problem. Also you would have to be blind as fuck to say shit's just "strong implication". Did you miss Subaru crying into Tsukasa's chest and telling her she's been metaphorically waiting for her and then afterwards they're repeatedly holding hands? That's not subtext. That's just fucking text.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:26:43 PM No.149457525
>>149455609 (OP)
Source?
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7/19/2025, 5:24:25 PM No.149458260
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>>149455609 (OP)
It's a double standard; lesbians have always been portrayed in a positive light, for the most part, while gay men were mocked and, this I believe is the main factor, the ill misconception that you are less of a man if you are attracted to the same gender is still prevalent.

>>149456072
>Male cartoon guys are weirdos
Queer women's portrayal of gays is also shit. They are stereotypical, blatant sisssies.

The only good one that I can think of is Adam from The Hollow, and maybe those two guys from the humanized version of the horse show, but I have never seen that series.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:58:40 PM No.149459121
>>149457525
Read the thread
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:02:22 PM No.149459149
>>149456773
Gay man make better cartoon girls than straight men.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:00:10 PM No.149459762
>>149455988
>lesbains aren't real.
based