"Jade doesn’t help enough, and she needs too much emotional hand holding without giving enough in return.”" <---VERSUS ANITA WHO NEEDS ACTUAL HAND-HOLDING. REPEATEDLY. I can't count the times the guys hold her hand not in a normal couples way but like you would a small child. Not to mention them all holding her and kissing her in a public restaurant while she cried about her grandma telling her she wasn't pretty. Anita is the one who does this, not Jade. And we've SEEN Anita do this, we have never ever seen Jade do this...or do much of anything because she's never on-screen.

I think Jade's getting booted not so much out of homophobia (though Anita is HELLA homophobic, make no mistake, I'm not arguing that) so much as LKH doesn't find it sexy to write about two women. She may have a woman or two in her life/bed now IRL and maybe she thought that meant she liked women IN GENERAL enough to enjoy writing girl-on-girl the way she clearly enjoys writing Anita with guys (badly though she does it) but she found it did nothing for her on paper. And since all of Anita's relationships are based on sex and nothing else, out Jade goes!

What I'm seeing more of is misogyny and double-standards. If Jade had been a guy, her neediness and trauma would have been seen as bonus points, and Anita would have LOVED her dependency.