I might just be tired but...why is it always about CP with this woman?
You know why.
Attitudes like that is why the Straight White Male will continue to be the character template of choice
Because a straight, white guy can fill basically any kind of role without setting off a deluge of smoothbrained activists yapping about how it's "problematic" and "bigoted" to protray him as anything other than a perfect example of his demographic box.
Even actual LGBT writers are getting fucking alienated from writing LGBT characters, because they can't do anything interesting with them without all the Lily Orchards of the internet coming out of the woodwork to cancel them for it.
I remember that Dobson used to parrot the idea that yes, in a perfect world we would be able to portray these characters more honestly, but because of
systemic oppression it's vitally important to
not treat these characters like regular people and instead elevate them to an impossible status because they're owed something.
Which is racist, let's just get that out of the way. You lay groundwok for how these particular characters are
supposed to be and when somebody doesn't adhere to the new stereotype they're accused of racism or sexism or homophobia or whatever buzzword is relevant to the conversation. It's actually extremely harmful to creative expression of those marginalized groups (who are more likely to try and write these characters from personal experience), and also goes back to caring more about the fictionalization than about the actual humans behind it.
Even worse of course is that Lily and people like her hold these same standards
to those actual humans. The amount of vitriol that gets thrown at somebody for having the wrong opinions and not being black or gay in the
correct way is... perhaps not shocking, but the fact that the people doing it are so blind to their own bigotry. Mistreating a fictional character is not nearly as bad as mistreating a real person. (As stated, look at the kind of seething hate that Lily has toward women and trans-people who don't agree with her.)
Presumably, she was alluding to the idea that any backlash you get for "messing up" representation should be viewed as good because it's free constructive criticism, and all you have to do to avoid The Mob is to bend to their will. There's multiple reasons this doesn't work, but that's for another time.
I'm not an archivist but I seem to recall this Ask.
It's also pretty funny because, while Lily has definitely done this song and dance before, if somebody calls her out for being shitty about her representation in a way that she just doesn't want to address, it's
suddenly disingenuous, should be ignored, and the complainant is just writing 'Lily Orchard creepypasta'.
