| vivster said: Of course because people only believe that you're not racist, sexist or homophobe when you overrepresent every tiny minority. I just hope he will also include a Jedi with down syndrome or else it would mean that he hates people with down syndrome. |
This seemed like a fun math excersise to think about so I decided to find out how many movies have gay characters and whether that fits with how many there should be statistically.
According to this article: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/glaad-report-gay-movie-characters-2014-tammy-get-hard-1201471698/
"The report, which studied releases from the seven major studios in 2014, found that 20 of the 114 movies (17.5%) that bowed last year had characters who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual."
So 17.5% of movies in 2014 had a gay character of some sort.
And according to this article: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-22/americans-vastly-overestimate-size-of-lgbt-population 4% of the population is gay.
That means 96% of movie characters should be straight. Assuming that an average movie has 10 characters that would mean .96^10 chance that all the characters should be straight statistically or 66.48%. So 31.52% of movies should have a gay character, but only 17.5% actually did in 2014. Therefore if anything LGBT community is still underrepresented in movies.
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