That’s a totally valid way for you to look at media, anon, but I’ve got my way too. And I could say, well, it’s relevant how this discourse only seems to come up for same-sex and interracial couples, who’ve had to fight to exist and be represented, and the lack of media romance and happy endings for them is for a reason. Or that to have representation of characters with AND without romance/happy wlw endings, we kind of have to still have the happy wlw endings and we’re quite short on those. Or that we don’t have to be in real life what we want to see in fiction.
But none of that’s needed as a justification because at the end of the day, I like romance. I like happy endings. I want to see them. And that’s fair too, and for others who want that.
