This is a screenwriting public service announcement, for your comfort and safety.

When writing screenplays about lesbian assassins, there are some simple rules that should be obeyed for greater enjoyment, fewer complaints about clichés, and fewer lesbians demonstrating outside the theater and setting fire to your house.

• Lesbians are not ice-cold psychopats who kill men on a whim. Not even lesbian assassins.
• Lesbians do not generally hate men, or despise them.
• Lesbian assassins do not show a predilection for attacking male victims’ genitals.
• Lesbians do not become lesbians because they are tired of men, are betrayed by them, or because they are raped.
• Lesbians are not hypersexual seducers who can turn any straight woman to a life of cunnilingus and comfortable shoes by a mere smoldering look.
• Lesbians do not necessarily die at the end, nor do they lose their true love, or are otherwise punished for their otherness.
• Lesbian assassins do not wear schoolgirl uniforms unless there’s a good reason. Well, at least a somewhat plausible reason. Alright, go ahead, put them in a schoolgirl uniform, you know you want to.
• Lesbians do not lounge around half-naked any more than straight women do, sadly.
• Lesbians, even lesbian assassins, probably have a fairly normal life outside of the hot, hot girl on girl action. Not that you care.

I’m sure there are more, but these should get you started. Subvert the dominant paradigm, damn you. Oh, and do it with style. And tits.