The answer is extremely simple.
Here is the author who wrote this character into the story
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As you can see, she is a fugly and bespectacled white woman, also known as the Meg Griffin demographic. Lacking any basic talent or charm in her writing, she actively courts whatever the bandwagon du jour is by crowbarring overt token representations who actively declare "HELLO READER I AM A TOKEN AND I REPRESENT THE BANDWAGON" and then throwing a media wank-off about how stunning and brave they are for writing this, as this is infinitely more likely to net her positive outlet coverage and professional asspats and advancement by others also looking to grift of the aforementioned bandwagon by loudly declaring how much they love this shit.
I trust your question has been answered.