Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160123215734/@comment-1916997-20160125163808

Frulna wrote: With a show like OUAT it can be quite difficult to put minorities into th show. It has to stick to the source material at least somewhat. Most of the stories they use as source are based in Europe and Europe is mainly white. Theat is also the same with sexual orientation, name one character from any of the source material they have been using that is not straight. The only one I can think of is arguably Elsa, depending on which fan theories you want to believe. The show has and will continue to have mainly straight white people because that is what makes sense for it to have. Not every show has to have a token black person or token gay friend to be a good show. I am perfectly ok with and don't see anything wrong with the people they have cast or the way they have handled the minorities they did have. While I get the point about the story origins (like Snow being a black lesbian wouldn't make sense, when she is always depicted as someone with "skin white as snow" and is always saved by a prince), other characters could have been changed. Like why was Jack genderbent, why couldn't he have been gay instead? He never has a love interest in the story. And all contries have fairy tales, why are we only seeing ones from Europe and America? Even the Disney movies with minorites have hardly been done. We've had a bit of Mulan and a bit of Aladdin, but what about Pocohantus, Brother Bear, The Princess and The Frog, The Jungle Book, etc. So yeah, that's where the problem is, we don't have minority representation, even when we easily can.