This is a repost from r/ainbow.
"Please read the whole post before choosing to downvote or upvote.
Also, this post involves stuff that's not exactly relevant as of June 2020, but I think it still needs to be covered.
A few months ago, there was a pile of memes about Netflix turning characters LGBT+ to make them look like they have character traits. I am not going to talk about whether those characters have good character traits, but about whether the public was focusing on the right thing.
Given that the LGBT+ characters were actually just soulless husks or robots saying 'i'm gay' all the time—it would be ok to be angry about the show's writers making a really token attempt at LGBT+ representation. The best way to solve that problem would be to suggest additional character traits that the characters could have, but the surge of memes just focused on the character being LGBT+ and constantly dissing the writing.
I am not the greatest fan of LGBT+ stuff, but if a LGBT+ character needs to be given more character traits, simply asking for their character to be changed is a lot better than roasting the show's writers. Same goes for any other character-related changes and also for characters who aren't LGBT+.
Funnily enough, a lot of the memes champion the indifference of LGBT+ status, but they keep focusing on badly written characters' LGBT+ status instead of their status of being badly written(Note: I do not know any token LGBT+ characters that were made just for diversity; I am still making assumptions here.). Eh, it doesn't really matter to me. Everyone makes mistakes and leaps in logic, and it's important to learn from them."
So, what do you think?
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