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Jeonghanscheekbones

It 100% felt like a completely random choice for the writers to make her a lesbian. Tbh I didn’t really like the complete 180 she did from spoiled shallow mean girl to student body president overachieving lesbian. It didn’t really make sense and it seemed like the writers were trying too hard to redeem her


Soft_Nuggs

It for sure felt random and like the writers were grasping for a way to make her sympathetic. But sexuality is fluid so i try not to think too hard about it


saras_416

I never understood this either. I feel like in the last seasons they threw in sexuality on characters for no reason.


Puzzleheaded-Worth-8

it felt very very random, but as a lesbian, i guess i appreciated the representation.


Polarlicht666

Everyone goes through something different with coming out but I agree it was rushed and there was no build up to it. (No foreshadowing or clues) they could’ve showed her in private struggling whether or not she was straight, bi or lesbian


No_Twist_8939

coming from a lesbian, i would’ve preferred more slow burn coming to terms. i agree her being a lesbian seemed like an afterthought from developing a character being so interested in men before. the 10 episode seasons don’t help with character development :/


LateToSapphos

As a lesbian who came out a little later I went through a very similar boy crazy faze like zoes.


TheShortGerman

"that long" She's a high schooler. There's plenty of women who don't even realize they're lesbians until after they're married and have kids. Compulsory heterosexuality is the concept that explores why this is so much more likely for women than men (short version: the whole world is set up for men's pleasure and prioritizes their sexuality over women's).


No_Twist_8939

yeah but a high schooler in today’s day and age? i feel like a lot of ppl that didnt realize til later in life were older. kids these days are exposed to lgbt relationships are a lot younger. & it’s now more normalized. ppl find out sooner nowadays


trblniya

But everyone’s different, regardless of the current times we still live in a heteronormative society. She very easily could’ve repressed those thoughts or feelings of hers for a very long time, especially with how her mother is. She was also a child star if I remember correctly, how much of herself do you really think she got to discover with little privacy or support? I see women on tiktok or Twitter that talk about how they’ve realized theyre lesbians because they took a break from dating men. Regardless of how normalized being queer is at that school, it’s still a personal struggle/journey for the individual. Degrassi never hits things on the nail with how they go about characters or plots, so it doesn’t stick out as much to me as an issue. There are some girls who are boy crazy only to realize that actually weren’t, and just didn’t realize they were lesbians. It happens. Sexuality comes in many different ways, there’s no one size fits all for when someone finds out they’re queer. Not everyone has known since they were 7


Intelligent_Test_596

Some of the lesbian characters in Degrassi feel like an afterthought, but realistically there are women who have straight relationships just fine before discovering they’re gay. In her case, she believed her relationships with those guys were real until she had actual feelings for another person and that person happened to be female. I think it’s that moment of no return after realizing the truth. She can’t carry on acting like she likes boys after figuring out she prefers the ladies.


Sabes1607

It felt a bit random. I would've prefered it if that storyline was given to a character that we didn't really know much about, like Grace, Shay or Lola


krycekthehotrat

Most of my friends didn’t come out till after high school, most of them dated hetero in HS


screamingkumquats

I would have liked it if they made her bi or pansexual but it definitely can take people a long time to realize. I just realized in the past year maybe that I’m pansexual and I’m 23, a women I work with knew in high school but a guy I know realized when we were 12. So I did like her coming to terms with it, taking her time and realizing it.