>>18624772While most anime's insistence that Homosexual relationships must still have a 'male' and a 'female' in it doesn't reflect IRL relationships It's obvious that any potential Zoey/Dawn relationship would have been like that.
Dawn is your textbook girly-girl. Long flowing hair, short skirts, dresses, lots of pink, ect. Meanwhile Zoey is completely butch with the short hair, jeans, vests, and all that.
Bad writing? probably, but they've writing lesbians like that since Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. It's how Japan (or atleast the Japanese the write anime) view those sort of relationships.