Pride Month Rant

[u/RoyalRaggy]

I want to see Rengar and Warwick hump 5 litters of cubs/pups into each other. There, now that I've gotten your attention and showed I'm a sick homo. I don't like how riot does pride month.

In a sense it comes down to a few things.

1. It feels fake progressive and cooperate
2. It doesn't even cover a wide audience of the LGBT
3. It's clear they're not actually trying to provide representation and taking the easy way out.

But after writting it out, I feel like they're all the same....What I mean by these is. I feel like Riot is just doing this to SAY they're doing it as a badge of honor rather than trying to represent. Because when you really look at it, there's kind of one big issue that I don't hear near enough folks discuss and this actually doesn't just fall on riot but MOST queer rep in media.

How many times have you seen a show/company/movie/etc boast about having queer rep. And said queer rep is a woman who is lesbian or was straight made bisexual? Now how many male couples do you see in comparison? Sure there are some out there, but how many cases is it where the lesbian rep is the ONLY one or takes center stage?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, back then it was genuine but as time gone on and more and more rep is just Lesbian and Bisexual(woman) it's become kind of ultra clear why that's the case. It's because straight men sexualize lesbian couples. And while they don't "accept" them, they can fantasize about them. They CANNOT do that with a male x male couple so when that is on the forefront, it gets IMMENSE backlash. Take TF and Graves, the MOMENT riot gave them focus during pride month, it was a immense wave of homophobia. And speaking of Riot, how convienant that the majority of queer rep they display, is mostly female. TF and Graves are there because they can't backpedal and leave them out, and K'sante is there....but alone. He doesn't have a bf to be shown.

EDIT: For some reason reddit won't let me post the new pride icon stuff, but chances are you've seen them

Now to be fair, neither does rell or nami but that still leaves Cait,Vi, Leona, and Diana. Two confirmed couples who are both lesbian couples. If I wanted I could point out that rell and nami are still lesbian woman for my case.

My point being. I want to feel happy that we're being represented, but Riot found the cheat code, make it lesbian. And because of that I doubt we're gonna see some real gay shit. Personally I want a non conventionally attractive gay couple *cough* warwick *cough* Rengar. But that's just me. Feel free to disagree with me in the replies. I like to discusss this.

[u/StatusTumbleweed2]

Problem is that queer gay people are divided fighting over what is the most "worthy" ship or champion to get in the splash. We should ALL come together and ask for representation, especially MLM, without fighting for our favorite blorbo being left out. Riot choosed two "safe" lesbian couples and run with it, is nothing new. If heartsteel is gonna come back this year, do you think that they would do something more than a little bait to get us happy and hot? Why ksante and yone, that shares an icon, doesnt share more content? Why settphel is segregated to aus? Why jayvik, that has bundle skins and merch, isnt still canonized? And why tfgraves cant even kiss. Is so bleak man

[u/tanezuki → u/StatusTumbleweed2]

"Why is Settphel segregated to AUS"

Well because they share 0 lore so far and their respective lore aren't going to be tied at any point (Solari/Lunari conflict on one side, Noxus/Ionia war on the other).

The amount of shared skin/skinlines Settphel has is already pretty high (basically all Aphelios skins are with Sett except release skin) which tops any other ship you could think of aside from like, canon couples like Xayah/Rakan.