Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
Well, it wasn't really an answer to my question, because what I was asking was "it doesn't do this, so why are people getting so upset about it?"
And that's true for Cottagecore, it's even probably why it's popular in sapphic circles.
It does have an impact, though. Every bit of representation matters, especially when it's still relatively early on in the battle. It might not tear down the entire movement with a single character, but it does register with people, so it just doesn't really benefit anyone bar the people who actively want to hold up this sort of dynamic - who harbor the sort of ideas on men and women that are harmful to the rest of us -to suddenly re-insert it when we've made a scant bit of way forward, and potentially set back the progress that has been made.

It may sound dramatic, but when you're a woman and actually affected by these ideals and have grown surrounded by these messages in modern media, it really is important. The existence of this thread in its entirety attests to that.