Rants And Unavoidable Controversies

Cliché Characters pt - 1

Gay best friends.

They (and I can not stress this enough) are absolutely ridiculous. I understand that it's somewhat impossible to create a character without giving it a hint stereotypes.

When I got into reading, I took books as my playground. As one ages, so does their taste so when I reached my prepubescent age (when wearing leggings underneath skirts was still cool) so did my book preference.

I've read countless teen fictions with main characters that have gay best friends which at first was cool, like A+ for diversity but then writers started making the best friend all preppy and got them into makeup. James charles type of shit. (Nothing against James. Calm down sistah.)

HELLO?

Why can't he be an athlete? Or a nerd? Or have a quirk of some sort. Yes, there are gay guys that talk in high pitched voices and say omg a lot but open your damn eyes! There are those who do guy things and like guy things. *wink wink*

Please get the joke.

My point is, we need diversity. I'm tired of reading;

"Shawn and I had been best friends since we were born. When he came out I loved him even more. He did my hair all the time and always went shopping with me. I was nothing without him."

This is a shitty paragraph.

• "Oh my God Vanessa. Like, who still draws their eyebrows like that? It's 2020 bitch! Sharp arch's are dead." Shawn hissed. He strutted over to me and snatched the concealing brush from my fingers. His strong cherry perfume lingered across my nose as he helped adjust my brows." •

This is also a shitty paragraph.

Must he be so girly? Dear God. Just stop. It gets boring. We want diversity!

It's all too stereotypical.