J.J. Abrams: "I'd Welcome Gay Characters In STAR WARS"

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Torillian said:

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.  

There could be 100% of movies having a gay person in it but it never comes up because no one gives a shit about their sexuality. So by that logic every movie that does not specify its gay people has any number of them in it.

So claiming that you specifically have one or two gay people in your movie is suggesting that everyone else is straight. That means movies where the minorities are specified have actually less minorities in there than movies where it's not specified. 

So yes, Abrams is a homophobe by underrepresenting gay people.