sweetheart... pumpkin.... kiddo....... lgbtq+ are insufficiently represented in all types of media and alec is one of honestly not that many openly gay characters on television (although numbers are increasing) and so erasing and ignoring his sexuality for a ship is homophobic because there are countless straight dudes you could be shipping clary with and its different from shipping drarry or whatever because tho they are, as u say, "clearly canonically hetero characters" (which, if we're gonna be sticklers, is not strictly true because it's never explicitly stated that they're exclusively attracted to women, whereas alec is specifically and explicitly gay), there are countless heterosexual characters in this world and no one needs more heterosexual representation lmao also: there's nothing wrong with lgbtq+ people headcanoning their favourite characters as being something other than cishet because we're so goddamn lacking in representation that honestly sometimes that's the only way to feel represented in a specific fandom whereas, again, cishet people are represented in literally every single piece of media to exist (and if there are exceptions please let me know i'd love to read/watch/listen to/ whatever them) and therefore are not in need of additional representation but u know what ! if u wanna ship magnus with women fuckin go for it because he's a canonically bisexual character, he's canonically attracted to men and women. alec isn't.
tldr; alec is explicitly not attracted to women in canon and is exclusively attracted to men. there are lots of other het dudes to ship clary with. there are literally so many. there's no need to detract representation from marginalized groups. alec's queerness is an important part of his storyline and character development, and so to ignore it in favour of a hetero ship is fundamentally homophobic. erasure of lgbtq+ people is homophobic.
also i like that you led your comment with "so let me get it straight" because yeah, that's about right, u did get it pretty fuckin hetero my dude lmao anyway have a good day, i hoped u learned something, dont to drugs, stay in school, remember to hydrate, support lgbtq+ representation
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