Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-27485621-20151105210616

ChishioKunrin wrote: Referencegoeshere wrote: One thing I've come to find to be a brutal honest truth about LGBT representation in cartoons and stuff is that people (See: Tumblr)  really need to learn why they're called the minority.

Of course there are gonna be less LGBT than heterosexual. That's how it is real life as well. Let's go even further into statistics. Rooster teeth is located in Austin TX. The lgbt community makes up 5%

Keep that in mind. Only about 1/50 people are LGBT in the place where the show is made. While not rare, thats not the most common stat either. It would make sense that it would be a while before we saw an LGBT character in the show. 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).

Here's the thing though, people tend to write from a perspective they're used to. Even if subconsciously. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be LGBT characters. I'm saying that so far the cast isn't very big, it wouldn't be that unlikely that the LGBT character hasn't even been introduced yet, much less would them coming out of the closet all of the sudden be a natural progression.