Sexualization of Heather by parts of the community makes me physically sick

Excluding the fact of her being 17 (which that alone should be enough of a reason for people to stop being gross) i feel it betrays her as a character so much. The whole point of SH3 was to explore Heather's feeling and how she feels about growing up too soon as well as exploring fears women have in general and i feel her being sexualized by very gross parts of the community does such a large disservice to her as a character. A large fear explored throughout the game is the fear as being seen as an object and Heather being sexualized completely shits on this.