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VGPolyglot on 21 May 2018
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bugrimmar said:
VGPolyglot said:

And what is and isn't diversity for diversity's sake? As I said before, the issue seems to be that people are so used to the default of male-dominated media that when it starts to change and diversify people take issue to that. People that are saying that it should just be determined by merit are ignoring the disadvantage that already exists in the industry, and in order to be resolved it cannot just be brushed aside, it has to be combated.

So your solution is to just tack on random diverse characters for the sake of diversity? How wonderfully superficial. Does it truly further the cause when all you're doing is forcing characters into roles they weren't meant to have?

 

How about creating new stories and new characters that are meant to be female, gay, black, Hispanic, or whatever? Instead of changing gender to suit your agenda, why not make your own goddamn character wherein the gender makes sense? Why ruin an entire storyline just for a minority when the vast majority hates breaking continuity?

 

That's the problem. Diversity backers don't have the courage to fix the problem with talent and creativity and hard work. They just want to do it the easy way. Popular franchise, let's change the gender and it's done! No need to work on something new!

Roles they weren't meant to have? What do you even mean by that? Characters are not real people, they are created specifically to fill a certain role, how are you supposed to decide that they aren't meant to have that role? How can you even change the gender of a franchise? It's like you're entirely against women and minorities being added as characters at all in established franchises, which makes no sense at all, franchises are worked on by various people that come and leave as the franchise evolves, it's not a static cast working on it.