The thing is, I'm always 100% Gay
One of the common "I'm not homophobic, but..." lines about media representation is all this forced diversity. You know, realistically only X% of people are minority Y, so really we're entering this space of overrepresentation. It's unrealistic. It's tokenism. It's blah, blah, blah...
Ok look. I don't really care what percentage of the general population is gay (in the same way I suspect that you don't really care either). 100% of me is gay. Every piece of media I consume will be viewed through the lens of my personal experiences. So respectfully, shut the fuck up! You are not oppressed. There will always be media for you to consume that represents you and your lived experiences. Me being part of a minority population doesn't immediately follow that a majority of media should erase people like me.
I'm not even saying that 100% of media should be queer. It's just that what we're after was never reality; it's representation. I'm just tired. I've seen a kajillion movies, and played a kajillion games, where the protagonist runs around being all straight and everything. Then someone has the audacity to claim that modern media has an unrealistic number of gay people? Why do I have to suck up the discomfort that virtually every action hero has a straight romance side plot, but audiences still get squeamish about an on screen m/m kiss? "So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the supreme court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
