Our goth Chicana might end up being a companion traveler in Season 2 of Netflix's Wednesday, but at the very least, offer her some fascinating dudes to select from
I believe Jenna Ortega's Wednesday Addams is Gay, but I'm evidently in the minority.
Let me explain: In Tim Burton's new Netflix series Wednesday, the intriguing and eerie youngster is carted off to a boarding school for "outcasts" (read: vampires, werewolves, sirens, gorgons, etc.) that's set in a bucolic Vermont town full of normies. (She was expelled from her previous school in New Jersey for releasing piranhas into the pool and de-balling a bully.) While at Nevermore Academy, a psychic student named Xavier Thorpe, as well as a townie barista named Tyler Galpin, fall in love with Wednesday, launching a love triangle (sort of) between a truly fascinating girl and two handsome but milquetoast white guys. Without giving too much away, Wednesday mostly passively tolerates their advances, causing many fans of the show to suspect that she is homosexual and ship her possible relationship with the one character who has a personality similar to her own: her roommate, werewolf Enid Sinclair.
I, a well-known homosexual man who would want to claim Wednesday as my own, believe the evidence for this notion falls short. Again, Wednesday is a highly dynamic, badass heroine with whip-smart one-liners and a plethora of unique hobbies, abilities, and interests, but the males pursuing her have personalities as engaging as a wet saltine cracker.
Wednesday and Enid have a great friendship and opposites attract thing going on. Wednesday, the cheerful, earnest Enid, wants to hang out, be social, and get on Instagram! Wednesday cares for Enid, but she thinks all of the above are dumb and simply wants to be left alone! While Wenclair's fancams are adorable and popular (almost 800 million views and counting on TikTok), all I see is a straight lady who is bored by the dudes surrounding her and just wants to solve a goddamned mystery about her ancestors in peace.
Sure, it's small-minded and strange that there aren't more out gays at a boarding school for misfits, but that's alright. It's a Netflix series, not Congress. Representation is vital, but it's not the end of the world if a fantasy program lacks openly referenced LGBT characters. Also! These are adolescents! Teens, like everyone else, come out at their own pace. Some people know at the age of four, while others know at the age of 44. There is always the next season.
I'd also like people to think of Enid and Wednesday as having a friendship in which they talk about their difficulties, apologize, mature, and progress. Maybe it means one or both of them will be gay—but having any type of healthy-adjacent connection in which she considers another person's feelings is a huge step forward for Wednesday's titular girl.
In an interview with Gayety this week, Ortega, the young actress who portrays Wednesday, addressed the LGBT subject. "I believe it's because she's a badass." "She's cool, she has a nice sense of style, but she embraces her differences and isn't looking to please anyone," Ortega added. "I think that's a really powerful thing to see." People seem to prefer to see powerful women alongside powerful women."
Unfortunately, being a homosexual icon does not imply being gay. Louder for those in the back: BEING A Homosexual ICON DOES NOT MAKE YOU GAY; it only makes you beloved by the gay people (male) who control most of gay culture.
Gripping for queerness is something I've always struggled with as a queer consumer of culture—both professionally and as a female sitting on my sofa. It's tedious to ask heterosexual characters to be homosexual, especially in a program about and for teenagers. Even if they are outsiders, young people are still discovering out who they are. I'm basically pleading with the writers to create more fascinating male characters in Season 2.
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