Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20161010231008/@comment-26185073-20161023212437

73.Anon.52 wrote:

ChishioKunrin wrote:

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That, and Miles feels that he's not great at writing romance stuff yet, so he's trying to make sure that when they do get around to the LGBT+ stuff, he does it well. I want to take this moment to Remind ChildOfTheMoon3(and any other poster who thinks RT is "Queerbaiting") that it was Monty's idea to write in the LGBT representation... I hate to say this... but Monty is dead. Saying that the failure to produce such a character at this point is "Queerbaiting" is like telling a friend who promised you could play with their cat that "they promised" after they tell you their cat died. It's horribly insensitive and gets you nowhere.

Neither Miles nor Kerry are at a place they can write these character arcs yet... Do you really want a heel-face-turn where a female character obnoxiously squeels "Boobies" every 5 minutes and starts groping everyone?

If you do, go watch porn or Hentai, if you don't... just shut up and wait... I don't have a problem with anyone shipping xyz in the meantime, but I don't want to see or hear people bitching about the promises of the dead that RT has said they intend to get to when they can and misrepresent RT as "Queerbaiters".

Do you know what Queerbaiting is? It's not "failure to produce such a character". It's the intention to never actually canonize it.

It's not hard to make characters that aren't heterosexual cis white people. It's just that a lot of things are lousy at representation.

RWBY has the potential, for sure, to produce actual LGBT+ characters. That doesn't mean it will use said potential.

The whole "promise of the dead" thing? Isn't RWBY technically a promise of the dead?..

That's.. Not...?? Do you think people who want LGBT+ representation are perverts..? We're not..

Queer baiting is used for profit, make a bond between two characters of the same sex and make it about as romantic as they can write. A false image is that you can't make as much profit by canonizing it, but you can. You'll still get the annoying homophobic heterosexuals, they'll just be negatively reviewing you. They'll buy it to complain.

Queer baiting is profit, they'll build the relationship, and then they'll like, force Weiss and Neptune together or something. Weiss doesn't even like anything about his personality. It's like Hinata and Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke, Mabel Pines forceful boy crushes, Dipper Pines and Wendy Corduroy, Pacifica Northwest and Dipper Pines, Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, etc. This is just a few examples off the top of my head.

LGBT+ doesn't become canon often. It's literally all queerbait. It's "bait" because it's to "bait" us to watch and buy merchandise. Which, it works. Because there's so little of it, we need all we can grab in our arms.

What's important, is that RWBY promises to have at least a few LGBT+ characters. It's not even a promise of the dead, it's a guaranteed promise of the dead. That's what is important.