Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-28171999-20171209210800/@comment-24018437-20171209213504

Not that impossible. I've read or seen plenty of stories where the main characters weren't straight, yet were written by straight people. Korra and Asami from The Legend of Korra, for example, are bisexual. But as far as I know, the creators of that show aren't LBGT+ themselves. DeBlois, a homosexual director, was the main writer of the How To Train Your Dragon movies. Yet none of the main characters are homosexual either.

Besides, your argument is overall not that good. Wouldn't it also not be awkard for the writers, most of which are adult men, to write their main characters as teenage girls in general? By that logic, a character can only have the same traits as his or her creators. Then RWBY would be about a bunch of adult men.

A good writer can create and write characters that he or she might not identify with on certain levels. I'm a straight, Indonesian-Dutch young adult male. Yet I've written plenty of characters of various ethnicities, sexualities, backgrounds, personalities, appearances, etc. If a writer can only properly write characters that are almost identical to him or her, then he might not be that great of a writer.