Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.88.223.7-20170617051005/@comment-25122143-20170617132004

GreyStark wrote:

There's also a reason why we assume most characters are straight. It's because most people are straight I don't think you get my point; If Yang was a guy, her wink to Blake in Burning the Candle would've been almost unianimously taken as romantic. The fact that they're both girls complicates things in that many people take that as just "joking" or "friendly" or what have you. And those are valid interpretations, and as MiniDaggers said, you can interpret interactions however you want. I'm just saying that you're more likely to interpret interactions between two people of the same sex as friendly rather than romantic due to Heteronormativity, and it might not be as "Out of Left Field" and with "No buildup" as some people claim. And if it isn't out of left field and does have buildup, the arguments claiming that it's "pandering" or "RT succumbing to the pressure of the LGBT community", etc, fall apart.