Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161109142908/@comment-4010415-20161114102843

.*Sigh* KNN, when most people determine who is a badass in RWBY, they're talking about their fighting skills, not their attitude. Ruby acted childish outside of battle back in volumes 1 and 2, yet you consider her badass.

I have absolutely no problem with the Maiden powers being restricted to young women, especially considering they're called Maidens, a word that's connected to young women. I would also have no problem with there being a black character in another show who has some kind of magical power that only black people can have. White male characters get the spotlight and awesome powers often enough in entertainment media. If someone wants to make powers that are restricted to women or people of skin colors other than white, that's perfectly fine, to me.

It's like... in Steven Universe, all gems present as female. Steven is the only one who is male, and that's because he's half-human. There are people who want there to be more male gems. Too bad. All gems present as female. That's the rule that Rebecca Sugar set, and that's how it'll stay, so the show has a wide cast of powerful, magical female characters (although, gems don't have a sex, but like I said, present as female). It's a show where females can have a spotlight as awesome, strong fighters.

I don't know if Monty, Miles, and Kerry thought about the existence of transgender people when Monty came up with the idea of the Maidens, but apparently, in all the literally thousands of years that the Maidens have existed, the Maiden powers never ended up in the body of someone whose sex is male. So, it's entirely possible that the Maiden powers only pay attention to sex, not gender.