Originally Posted by
Anchorsify
By was you mean still is? That’s all it ever has been.
I find #1 a very weird argument because the x-men and mutants as a whole have been about discrimination, segregation, and generally about being different. I don’t necessarily disagree of the sensitive nature of the subject matter, I just don’t think it holds up when you look at how people like mystique clearly had relationships with other women that wasn’t withheld because of the same problem you are describing. Logically, seems more likely she just wasn’t intended to ever have that be a focus of the character, given others have been shown LGBT over the years, and the only person to ever write her that way is also the one writer who tends to write almost all characters that way.
Aside from the two most obvious self-insert writers of Ellis with Wisdom and Bendis with Quill, I just don’t really agree with the general notion that a male couldn’t write a F/F pairing just as realistically as anybody else, and this is again fairly proven with mystique and destiny (and the inverse is certainly proven by AO3’s statistics as a whole, as it contains a majority of slash fan fiction predominantly written by women). Liking a character certainly doesn’t mean you are predisposed to making them attracted to your own gender for the sake of fantasy fulfillment. That just isn’t and never has been what comics and character sexuality has been about.
But I will agree that past writers have clearly used her that way in the past, imo to the detriment of the character, but YMMV. Some people find even those self-inserts to be some of their favorites, and there’s nothing wrong with that.