Loki May Be Stronger Than We Realize in “Journey Into Mystery”

what is too crazy is the fact that they could only conceive of pulling off this relationship if it appeared, outwardly, to be heterosexual.

that is the only reason a woman variant of Loki was introduced here. There are folks who will clamor to remind us that both of these versions of Loki are canonically bisexual at least, making the relationship functionally not straight… but that is unimportant in this specific instance. The point is how it looks to viewers who aren’t keen on accepting that truth, and Marvel engineered this in such a way that nothing about it reads as queer

this means they also created a lady Loki for the central purpose of having her be a love interest to the main character