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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Happy Stonewall Day!
 
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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


 Thank you so much Cyrano I didn't want to bug anyone to ask with everything going on you're awesome

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970

Such Fun posted:

Last night I was watching something and realized the trope of small town female cops being coded as lesbian. Made me go ‘huh’.

Was it Onward

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970

Such Fun posted:

No, I think it was a no or one line role on Doom Patrol actually. More of a visual confirmation of the trope.
What is ‘interesting’ about the trope is that there is a subtext that these women are admirable because they exhibit traditional male forms of strength: solitary and independent, averse to displaying emotion and vulnerability.
What makes them lesbian coded is short haircuts and a boxy uniform hiding traditionally female curves.
I don’t really know why they are a trope; what purpose they are intended to serve

I think they feel like they're being progressive, like onward has a single throwaway line where the very masculine ogre woman cop says her wife is at home waiting, but they code her so obviously that it just comes across as pandering

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Happy Stonewall Day!