Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160508230102/@comment-27425734-20160515033239

RayStrikeAbius wrote: Alright, Imma drop the pretenses. I'm trying to make a character's family life/backstory. And for the sake of diversity, I'm considering giving her homosexual parents.

I'm not quite sure how I should go about this though, or what gender parents would be preferable for the situation. Any advice would be appreciated. "For the sake of diversity"... There are so many things wrong with that statement, at least to me. But before I rip you a new one for creating characters for such a superficial reason, I would first like to know who this child's fathers are? You mentioned that when you first proposed your idea here, and I would like to know how developed the relationship is between these characters. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I want to know if you actually know anything outside of what movies, books, television, anime, magazines, etc. have told you about LGBT relationships.

As in, do you personally know, and have seen and truly experienced firsthand how these kind of relationships work? How they differ, and if they even differ from heterosexual relationships. If you haven't done that, I strongly suggest you don't bother with such character archetypes because you'll just be going off of the archetypes that are presented to you via the media and the entertainment industry. The reality can be very different.