Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4723271-20140716053249/@comment-6383956-20141224160241

Paul.rea wrote: Who elected you (or the echo chamber to whom you listen) the spokesperson?

Your interpretation of the GLAAD report is somewhat broad - so every gay prostitute/murder victim/psychopath counts as representation? They look at and discuss quality of the representation - it's the point of the report.

I would much rather Danny not be included at all than for him to just show up to say "Look y'all! I'm GAY!" Nobody elected me, Paul. I'm gay, I'm part of the community, and I participate in discussions about this very topic quite often. Would you like to see some? How about the comments on this article in the Advocate. Or this article the Advocate followed that up with? Or the comments on this article from OUT Magazine? And not even just gay publications -- check this article from the Geekiary (and the comments).

I'm not elected the spokesperson, but unlike you I actually know what I'm talking about. You're being so beyond offensive, Paul. This is not your jurisdiction and you are not an authority on these. You're completely, overwhelmingly uneducated. Maybe you could listen to what people are saying so you could learn something.

As a matter of fact, the GLAAD report does count every gay prostitute/murder victim/psychopath. They discuss the quality of representation, but the scores don't have anything to do with that. And mostly the "quality" they're talking about is how diverse that representation is, which, again, if you'd read the entire report you would know. Teen Wolf has had multiple non-white LGBT characters which, according to the GLAAD report, makes it stellar in terms of quality. Look at the advice they give to most networks in regards to how to improve, almost always it's "have more LGBT people of color on your shows." Which is valid, which is important, which literally says nothing about the LGBT characters being shown.