I see that there's a minority of people who are unhappy with Blake being revealed as bisexual. A lot of these viewers are straight and can't relate to the happiness of the LGBT in the fandom. However, some bisexual people are also unhappy with how it was revealed. (1/17)

I'm going to do my best in examining the complaints and debunking them in a detailed and civil manner. I'll say this -- to all the concerned bisexuals out there, I understand why you're not satisfied. I'm not really bi, but I'm pan and thus a wlw/sapphic. (2/17)

I'm going to list the responses made by concerned people and explain why I don't agree with them. Sit tight and bring your snacks. This will be a big one.

• "Blake's sexuality should have been confirmed onscreen."

Now, this is a common complaint that we LGBT have when (3/17)

it comes to representation in media. We've been baited by companies by being given hope that a character was LGBT, only for said character to never show that side of themselves. Or worse, put in the background.

But Blake isn't such a character. She's clearly displayed (4/17)

attraction towards Yang in V6-7. Look at V6 Episode 10. The characters have a flirtatious interaction and when they separate, the way they look at each other shows that they've got romantic feelings for each other. People who are 'just friends' don't look at each other (5/17)

like that. If someone who was a non-romantic friend of mine looked at me like that, I'd be wondering what the hell happened.

See how Yang continues to look in wonder even as Blake is going further. She's enchanted by the girl she has feelings for. (6/17)

I can analyse several scenes between Blake and Yang that show that they're developing romantic feelings for each other, but that would take up a lot of Tweets. I hope this one alone illustrates my point, though.

And even if the previous interactions between Blake and Yang (7/17)

have been too subtle for people to notice, this level of subtlety can't last forever. At one point they're going to have to confess their feelings for each other and probably even kiss. That would definitely be onscreen confirmation that Blake is bi. (8/17)

Thus, by stating that a character is bi offscreen, Barbara didn't do any harm. There's already enough evidence there and more will arrive over time.

• "Blake being a bisexual erases her personality and does a disservice to her character."

This is something I absolutely (9/17)

disagree with. There's no way that a character's complexity can be stolen by them being bi at all. I don't know how that works and I'm pretty certain that this is just an excuse from the Bumblebee haters.

Blake is an introverted bookworm who likes drinking tea. (10/17)

She's also a relationship abuse survivor who learned to face her fears instead of running away from them. The confirmation that she's bi won't take away the other aspects that make her character up at all.

• "Her fans only care about her sexuality, not her personality." (11/17)

Listen, we're the ones defending her from the haters who say that she was never abused. We're the ones telling people that she conquered her fears whenever they shamed her for being a coward (Even though she's not a coward anymore because character growth). (12/17)

If we defend her personality and experiences so much, why do people say that we only care about her sexuality?

Well, the fact that she's canonically bi is definitely something to celebrate. It's not the only thing we care about, but it's something we love to see. (13/17)

Look at my first point. I've stated that good representation is still lacking and needed. And Blake gives us hope for that representation.

Representation matters, believe it or not. Society can be influenced to become more accepting by showing that LGBT characters are (14/17)

just like everyone else -- normal people. And representation can help people be confident with their own gender and sexual identities. When I was a kid, the bisexual character Magnus Bane from The Shadowhunter Chronicles taught me to be confident about my own sexuality. (15/17)

So of course we're celebrating the fact that Blake is bi. It doesn't mean that it's the only aspect of her we want to see. We want her to recover from her relationship abuse in the past. We want her to lead the new White Fang and bring equality. (16/17)

I hope this sums up why I disagree with what people are saying when they criticise how Blake was revealed to be bi. (17/17)