No problem. I think sometimes it's also "independent" = "lesbian." In the 1950s, when comics were coming under a lot of heat, one of the comics that was criticized was Wonder Woman, which was accused of portraying lesbianism-- in spite of the fact that Diana is canonically depicted as both straight and a virgin.
That gets even more complicatedly problematic, because of the implicit suggestion that being a lesbian is something bad to be censored from stories for children, but also the concept that lesbians are naturally more masculine than straight women, and that being independent is naturally a masculine state of being. Or that for a woman to not need a man must suggest she's not sexually attracted to men, or that being independent is unattractive to men and therefore only lesbians would want to be. Or that lesbianism is an alternative choice that women only make if they can't find a man. There are dozens of ways to read it and they're all kind of ooky to me.
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That gets even more complicatedly problematic, because of the implicit suggestion that being a lesbian is something bad to be censored from stories for children, but also the concept that lesbians are naturally more masculine than straight women, and that being independent is naturally a masculine state of being. Or that for a woman to not need a man must suggest she's not sexually attracted to men, or that being independent is unattractive to men and therefore only lesbians would want to be. Or that lesbianism is an alternative choice that women only make if they can't find a man. There are dozens of ways to read it and they're all kind of ooky to me.