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Author: FrodoGoofballCoTV

Feb 29th 2012 at 11:41:41 AM

In response to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=mrrv0lfphb29fvme6ofumrj0&page=8#192 this forum post]], I'm seing a number of grey areas here:
* In LesbianSchoolgirls and RomanticTwoGirlFriendship, the relationship / infatuation typically occurs within a context of a society that tolerates underage homosexual relationships ''on the presumption that'' the character will "grow out of it" (which carries UnfortunateImplications that homosexuality is childish, and [[NoTrueScotsman mature adults]] are hetero).  Is this true of this proposed trope as well?
* The definition states that this trope is about one homosexual relationship between secondary characters in a series where the majority of relationships are heterosexual.  Is that the primary focus here, a requirement but not the primary focus of the trope, etc.?
* There seem to be three subtropes in terms of the nature of the specific relationships:
** A single token lesbian character who has an obsessive infatuation with another female that is not reciprocated.
** A single token lesbian couple.
** Two or more relationships and/or a LoveDodecahedron between three or more SchoolgirlLesbians that are secondary to the main character(s) love life or other conflicts.

However, my impression is that the main trouble with this YKTTW is that it suffers a problem I see in many TRS - inspired [=YKTTWs=]: it's been created as a "miscellany basket" for catching everything that doesn't fit in the tropes being fixed.  In my experience, miscellany baskets don't make the best tropes.  So perhaps we should repurpose this as, we've idntified a possible "tropespace" that may contain one or more tropes, and we want to [[BuffySpeak find the most tropable trope in the tropespace and trope it]].