5/4/2023 0 Comments Bounty hunter girls![]() But as her boyfriend Miles, who’s Black, tells her: it’s not all black and white. ![]() But it definitely applies to a certain population who readily show performative allyship but don’t know how to actually do the work.īlair thinks she knows it all. Make no mistake, this certainly doesn’t apply to every white girl. They know the bare minimum that the white feminist articles of Refinery29 and Cosmo tell them and not much more. They think they understand the complexities of racial injustice and inequality.īut, in reality, they know nothing. She’s also proud to support the activist who’s been cutting off the heads of confederate statues in Atlanta.īlair is representative of many (often privileged) white girls who think that they’re educated on the issues because they’ve grown up during a time when they have access to information at their fingertips and cultural lines are constantly blurring on social media. She’s quick to drop a line about the NRA or climate change. It’s clear that Blair considers herself to be the politically aware one in her family. Next on the list is the way the show cheekily pokes fun at Blair’s so-called “wokeness.” But she knows she likes both guys and girls and wants to live her truth. And that’s 100% ok!Īs for Sterling, she’s not ready to label herself yet. She lives in an ultra-conservative community and her dad “hates the gays.” She waffles back and forth over her decision to come out but ultimately decides she’s not quite ready. April knew she was a lesbian since she was a kid and she’s not ashamed of it. On top of that, it was great to see a young lesbian character so confident in her sexuality. But there are also those who are incredibly accepting. Yes, there are certainly many Christians who believe in conversion therapy and that gay people will go to hell. It’s refreshing to see a side of Christianity not typically portrayed on television. ![]() He made me, along with narwals and those tiny blue poison frogs. “In case you’re wondering, no, I do not believe God is going to smite me for being a lesbian. As April tells Sterling on their first date, Perhaps the best is that, despite being devout Christians (April is even the leader of their Fellowship group), neither ever questions if what they’re doing is wrong. There are so many great things about this storyline. She kisses April - and April kisses her back!Īnd so begins a beautiful but precarious relationship. But at a certain point, she just can’t hold back anymore. Sterling tries testing out the waters with April, even bringing up potential queer storylines in the bible. Let’s start off with the good, perhaps even the of the best, part of the show: Sterling’s romance with April.Īfter breaking up with her near-perfect Christian boyfriend Luke (who she pressured into having pre-marital sex), she discovers an electric spark she feels with April, her school nemesis. So let’s get into it: the good, the bad, and the ugly. While the show is wildly entertaining and has some really great plotlines (particularly the lesbian storyline), it’s not immune to the same problematic issues that plague most TV shows these days. Rather, Teenage Bounty Hunters focuses on a pair of Christian fraternal twins dealing with the same things most teenagers face - finding themselves, exploring their sexuality, and, oh yeah, the fact that their mother may secretly be living a double life as a wanted criminal. Teenage Bounty Hunters is a pretty deceiving title considering how little “bounty hunting” the teens actually end up doing in the new Netflix show.
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