If you haven't heard, Marvel's "Black Panther" is garnering a lot of attention for being a movie that shows representation for black people all over the world. However, it is still being criticized as not being representative enough.

One article claims that the film missed a key opportunity to showcase LGBTQ films. The author claims that a storyline in the comics between two queer characters was completely left out, while a small, subtextually romantic scene between another suggestively gay couple was filmed and then later cut. He cites text from the comics and says Marvel missed an easy way to include LGBTQ representation into one of its films.

Now let me start off by saying that I am a fierce proponent of the LGBTQ community, and I think that there is gross under-representation of queer people in today's media.

However, this is not the time nor the place to criticize "Black Panther" for not being representative enough.

On the most surface level, including the sexuality of two minor characters might not have been a top priority for the director of the film. There is only so much that can be added to an origin story, and that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't care about LGBTQ representation.

More importantly, that kind of representation is not the main point of "Black Panther." The point is to showcase the story of an African man being portrayed as a sophisticated superhero, which will mean so much to millions around the world.

The majority of our media is extremely white. Minority representation is often token and stereotypical, so releasing a movie that is not only full of black characters, but ones that are multidimensional and front and center, is a huge accomplishment in and of itself.

Should we have people of color that are also in the queer community? Absolutely. But the primary objective of this movie is not to showcase that.

Additionally, I would personally feel that a 30-second scene of two female characters flirting with each other would toe the line of queerbaiting, which teases a non-heterosexual relationship without explicit confirmation.

In today's media, we need LGBTQ characters and relationships that have substance and meaning. Queer people need to be represented in more high budget films such as those created by Marvel, but it has to be done right.

The community deserves more than just subtext and "exclusively gay moments," (I'm looking at you, Disney). We deserve fully developed, three dimensional LGBTQ characters, and "Black Panther" just simply is not the platform for that.

In short, I'm tired of my generation, in particular, finding fault in the wrong places. "Black Panther" is leaps and bounds ahead of any other blockbuster in terms of minority representation, so criticizing Marvel for not adding another marginalized group comes off as unfair and inflammatory.