Thread:NibiruMul/@comment-10860529-20140329235415

Hey, NibiruMul, I just anted to poke you about something? A few admins and I were talking and I wanted to say that we agreed that having an  LGBT Characters category is rather unessesary.

It has nothing to do with being against anyone in the LGBT community. Heck, Hatter, Zena, and myself can proudly say that the qualify as being part of it, and a good chunk of our own characters do as well. However, we felt that having a spefific category made for them is rather, say, otherizing?

What I mean is that not a lot of folks would consider to make a, say, straight/hetrosexual category, because often gender and sexuality are viewed under the lense of the "other" or oppressed - women, and of course, anyone who happens to be gay/bi/trans/pan/ace/ext. While I doubt you and some of the others who've used the category meant harm by it, it's just a thing that more than a few admins would want to avoid.

I made a similar comment about someone doing the same thing, butinstead of "LGBT Characters" they used "African American Characters". I see that you have a daughter of the One-Handed Girl, from a Swahili fairy tale, but of course one wouldn't categorize her as such because: Number one, not everyone who's black is from the United States, and number two, lumping a bunch of unrelated characters in one category just because they aren't white/straight/part of the majority is rather insensitive.

The same would apply to an LGBT category, since not everyone who isn't straight qualifies under that term: Asexuals, pansexual, people who don't identify with the male or female gender (bi-gender, agender, ext), and so forth wouldn't.

Frosty had already added the category into the candidates for deletion section, but I just wanted to point this out. You getting rid of the category on your own characters and perhaps on some of the other articles would help plenty. :) 