Do you feel that we have reached a balanced ratio of male protagonists vs. female protagonists?

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spemanig said:

hershel_layton said:

Sometimes race does matter. It'd suck if a movie used white people to mock Native Americans.

 

I do agree overall though. I just want good actors.

 

However, if the character is meant to be LGBT, black, Native, etc etc., I want the correct people to be casted.

 

That's poor type casting, though. That has nothing to do with writing. I don't see why a LGBT character can't be acted by a straight person, though.

How? How is that poor type casting, I ask you. A straight person would have no idea what its really like to be gay and I don't think a gay person would have a firm grasp on what its like to be straight. From what I read, you know from a very young age which way you slant and that relationship status becomes a significant part of who you are. With that being said, you're relying on the writer but how can a person put themselves in those shoes? You're asking blue to imagine it's red.