However the canonical precedent of Velma’s allure seeming spans beyond these factors, drawing quite a bit from her long history as a queer coded character, both aspirational and attractive to many members of the LGBTQAI+ community that are interested in women. Since first appearing on the small screen in Scooby-Doo: Where Are You? circa 1969 (nice) Velma’s sexuality has remained, much like her profession of choice, a mystery. With no love interests throughout the majority of her iterations, her passion for people’s intellect, the fact that she crawled away from Seth Greene’s Patrick Wisely trying to ask her on a date in the clip included above, as well as a long-running fan conspiracy that she joined Mystery Inc. to get close to Daphne, she quickly became an icon in the community, garnering a cult following of women and other folks who wanted to either be her, date her, or perhaps both.
Now, reader, I know what you may be thinking – “these examples are so minute, you’re just making s–t up now.” Although you are right, these are incredibly subtle, Velma’s little quirks – along with her smarts, pragmatism, and penchant for short skirts — sent a big message, leading her to become a long-running icon/common crush among members of the LGBTQAI+ community, a phenomenon Steuver detailed in his article.
“By now you’re saying: You fool. Everyone knows Velma is a lesbian,” he wrote. “Well, yes, there is that. But is she? Is every woman who’s too savvy for the Shaggys and too invisible to the Freds simply a lesbian by default? Is the world really like that to its wallflower, crime-busting, meddling teens in unfortunate turtlenecks?” However it seems the answer, at least in Velma’s case, is a resounding “yes.”
“Certainly the lesbians of the world welcome Velma into their fold — there is actual lesbian love poetry already written to her, written by womyn who, as little girls, must have looked through a Count Chocula sugar haze and found solace in her unwavering, resourceful moxie,” he noted. “They would swathe her in flannel and offer her a motorcycle ride to paradise, but is that what Velma really wants?”
Why Are We All So Thirsty For Velma?
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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