God help me I have even more thoughts about The Ultimatum: Queer Love
We know Vanessa's dad is some kind of "IT guy" from California right? I worked in Silicon Valley tech bros there wouldn't identify as "IT guy"s unless they worked for IBM or something. So chances are he's old school, probably got into the field in the 90s, before the first tech boom. My read of Vanessa and Xander is they're from somewhere in the bay area, but maybe a really middle class neighborhood (those still existed in the 90s and 2000s, I grew up in one), not exactly small town, but suburban and segregated. I grew up in South San Jose in the early 2000s for a bit, and the biggest thing happening was the local mall, and an abandoned coal mine from the 19th century. "But I am a cheerleader" was filmed there....
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