Originally Posted by
Jewel Runner
Frankly making Velma a lesbian always felt stereotypical to me, like I'm not saying she can't be a lesbian, it just feels very predictable, like when a group has multiple girls it'll always the girl who's the least conventionally feminine who people peg as gay, and it kind of sends a message about what kind of girls people expect to be straight and what kind of girls are expected to be gay.
Like I rarely see anything where the girly girl who's into fashion and makeup is the one who turns out to be gay.