Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-14909251-20151105214840

ChishioKunrin wrote: Except, there's this thing called fiction. You could make a show about a world where the majority of people are black and LGBT if you wanted, and nobody could say shit because it's a fictional world that doesn't have to adhere to our ratios of who is the majority and who is the minority. RWBY takes place in the fictional world of Remnant, not Austin, Texas.

As for shows that take place in the real world... Let's say we make a show about a high school in Austin. Let's say that high school has a student body of about 2,000 students (the high school I went to had 2,200-2,300). 5% of 2,000 is 100. Odds are, at least one of those 100 LGBT+ students could be a main character.

It shouldn't be too much to ask for some minority representation when entertainment media really and truly is over-saturated with white straight people. And I'm saying this as a white woman, who's admittedly asexual, but heteroromantic (meaning: I'm into guys, but I'm not sexually attracted). While it is certainly true that you can do what you want in a fictional world, that world is still subjec to certain rules. In the RWBYverse, all indications are that reproduction occurs the old-fashioned way. You need the world to have a predominantly straight cis demographic make-up for them to have a large sustainable population. As such we can safely presume LGBT populations are roughly the same in Remnant as they are in the real world. Once you have an established fictional universe, you can't do certain things without undermining or changing the rules of that universe. People tend to get rightly annoyed when that happens, because the audience appreciates logical consistency in a story.