Why is every female black detective a lesbian?

I havne't seen much of this but, assuming it's true, it's probably just because it's a cliche tough cop background. (I was rewatching Die Hard yesterday, and Carl Winslow is telling McClane how his wife is working on their first child.)

I think this is just a case of appeasing a significant demographic. Women have taken over large swaths of the workforce, mostly white women but black women have been doing better than ever before as well. Black men are not doing well in the workforce. So, my theory is that black women who purchase Hulu will be more happy to see a professional black female that has a female girlfriend/wife because black men just aren't in the picture personally nor professionally.

This is just my theory I definitely could be wrong!

Do your predictable thing, oh-so pleasant and accepting anti-wokesters (cons) who live on these boards.

But OP, what other shows that you’ve been watching? Where?

You know what, fuggetaboutit. If this show was the only one with such characters, that would be enough to infuriate the woke-obsessed mediocre white reactionary babybros who scream, duh, woke and agenda 24/7 over anything that isn’t reich wing and centrist boomer approved. Yeah, ok projecting agendist reich. (Btw, if you’re not one of these raging reactionaries but still think this is something that should be brought up, then alright.) But no matter how they approach “matters” like these, it’s gonna be a problem for the aforementioned reactionaries regardless. Lol, at the same time it’s like Hollywood hears their constant anti-woke (pro-exclusion) crying and goes, “oh, you triggered again? Well, we’re gonna give you some more where that came from!.” (Shhh: they truly don’t care about the complaints coming from those who want things to go back to the way they were.) And yes, cons and the “libs” Bill Mahers of the world… Some of you not saying the quiet part out loud can claim all this “pc” stuff you can’t stand today just doesn’t equal good storytelling (it should be done right!), but when all is said and done ya know damn well virtually everything these days is “forced diversity” and woke this and that to your fragile traditional butts. Stay mad as ya do best.

that opening scene with her cursing and talking about herman's head was terrible.

Maybe because writing a gay white male detective would be more controversial and could potentially scandalise more people, since there are more white people in the US.

There's probably a gay person on the writing team and that was, they thought, a less risky way of using their own life in writing the show. And if the writer is white themselves it means they can't be accused of just writing stereotype black characters.

Or maybe it wasn't written with any specific gender race or sexuality at all and they just liked the two actors for the role of the detective and their partner (domestic, not police).

I think most young women in streaming series and movies I've seen in the last couple of years have been lesbian or bisexual, especially if they're black. I doubt there will ever be a series again in which all the young women are straight. In the current television/film universe, about half the general population, and nearly the entire female population under the age of fifty, seems to be gay. It's an interesting phenomenon.

To promote homosexuality. Once I saw that pregnant lesbian come out I skipped over that entire plot line (which was surprisingly long since I had to jump ahead pretty far and they came back to it more than once. But despite missing all those minutes I didn't seem to lose any of the story. So it must have just been pure propaganda with no connection to the plot.

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