Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-24994749-20140819031309

EmbraceTheHood wrote: I'm actually kind of hoping it'll be mostly a non-issue, as we've already got discrimination against the Faunus, and in a way, Blake's hiding her heritage symbolizes how some LGBT folks feel before coming out, so Idk, while I always love a good coming out story, I feel as though making it as big of an issue as the Faunus may feel a little too redundant in terms of the discrimination storyline.... Unless members of the LGBT community are generally "rejected" by both humans and Faunus, then that would be an interesting twist....

I could see, though, how homosexuality/bisexuality/gender identity could be an issue for someone like, say, Weiss, who comes from a well-known family with a high social status, because in her father's eyes, and the community's eyes, if she were to have feelings for someone of the same sex, it could be seen as "different", and I'm assuming all Schnees, according to her family, should be expected to think and feel the same way.... So, if it were a character with a higher social status to "protect" who were to be revealed to be the LGBT character, I could definitely see it being a potential issue.

The fact that they have racism against the faunus is exactly why I don't trust the society of Remnant to be open about sexuality.

If we go in the same other our world went we first started to try to sort out racism, then sexism and then gender/sexuality discrimination. And we haven't fully sorted either of thus three.

We don't know where the faunus stand exactly, just that they don't enjoy the same civil rights that humans, which is kind of a serious implication. But the meaning of that is also very affected by for how long humans and faunus civilizations have been mixed. It is possible humans and faunus existed isolated from each other for long enough they sorted out sexism and gender/sexuality issues within their own species before clashing. After all, we haven't seen any examples of sexism, even in their softer type (comments like "You are good for a girl.").

About the Schnee family, it is could also be possible that non conventional gender/sexuality turned out to be an issue only for people who try to sustain a blood linage like family owned companies.