First: No, anon, Demian and Barnes don’t count. Charlie is the only recurring queer character in the series.
All I’m hearing is ‘blah blah egocentrism blah blah internalized misogyny blah blah I didn’t actually watch Charlie’s episodes’. And if the ‘character who is you’ is Dean, then the leg you have to stand on here just crumpled to dust, because there are few people who are more of a male nerd fantasy than Dean ‘Pit Stop at Mount Doom?’ Winchester.
(Disclaimer: Charlie could have been several things to break the mold more, like less conventionally attractive, marginally lazier? idk, even more overtly feminist in a way that interrogated SPN a bit more, a woman of color.)
But uh, this is a mountain of wow. Cos like.
Yeah, Charlie enjoys some things dudes notoriously enjoy, and some dudes like that (as opposed to using it as just another manner of sexist gatekeeping).
She also enjoys things like Robyn. And reproductive rights functions. And Harry Potter (and ships Hermione with someone who’s not Ron). SHE READS FAN FIC. She sings when she’s nervous, and…socially competent? Really? She babbles when she tries to flirt with the security guard, who she can barely flirt with at all, because he’s “not a girl”, and she just goes “But…~FBI~” when their plan starts to fail because the lady coroner’s the monster. She says things like, “That’s what they get for the sexist name.” and “Hey, [Nice Guy]? I’m the one who saves damsels in distress around here.” (ala Storyteller, from Buffy S7). Her hero is Hermione Granger, not any of the dudes from the dude-approved stuff you so revile her liking. She got on a watchlist for illegally open-sourcing a video game: bet #GG would love that, right.
(If that article is rehashing your points here, then fuck that article. Sexist bull.)
So Charlie’s not you cos Dean’s you, whatthefuckever. She’s still a lot of nerdy (autistic) queer women, like my babe dubiousculturalartifact for instance, and you’re kinda being a selfish ass by acting like cos some dudes do like her, she’s made for dudes. Who are you to get on a soapbox of internalized ‘not like other girls’ crap and say “she’s not at all us cos she’s not me“ and then turn around and say her much more masculinist literal male fantasy counterpart is you.
I won’t disagree with you, by a longshot, when it comes to “she made me feel lonely” and “one queer character is unrealistic”. That’s extremely accurate and part of why people thirst so much for Dean and Cas to be textualized. QUEER PEOPLE WITH ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND ALSO QUEER FRIENDS!!
But if your thoughts on Charlie before 10x21 amount to “We deserved better than this Male Fantasy®” then you really have another, less sexist, think coming.
