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73.Anon.52 wrote: 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". Don't guilt-trip people for criticising RT for a lack of representation. The writers have had a myriad of opportunities to present even the slightest shred of evidence pointing to the existence of LGBT relationships in Remnant, yet have neglected to do so every time.

The most egregious example is the dance scene in Volume 2. If they don't want to write romance stories, that's fine (though I'd like to know what the fuck they'd call Jaune and Pyrrha's relationship), but this scene would have been the perfect opportunity to subtly display a couple or two dancing together (apart from Blake and Yang of course, but that's another matter entirely). Instead, every single pairing was male/female.

LGBT representation doesn't just mean telling stories about gay people, nor does it necessarily require realistic, multi-faceted characters who are not solely defined by their sexuality being displayed onscreen. All that you really need to do is show the audience that they exist. Convince any LGBT people watching that they have a place in this world. If you can't even do that, despite repeatedly promising that you will, then I think it is fair to label your actions as "queerbaiting".