I'm tired of this overemphasis on diversity spilling into our entertainment.

[DonFerrari]

Angelus said:

Azuren said:

You're conflating genre and character, so not exactly the best argument from the get-go.

 

If someone wants to write a strong female character, then they should focus on the character arc, not the genitalia and ideology. Write a good character before you decide the gender, don't try to write a good character around a gender.

That was basically my point, it's about proper execution, not making arbitrary decisions. I don't entirely agree with your point about writing the character first and then deciding the gender. That works in some cases, if you go in with the idea of it truly being an interchangeable character, but in many other cases a character will have traits, and story arcs that lean decidedly in one direction or another. 

Well he put the write the charcter not the story totally... and he also put that when you decide the gender if you want to have romatic impact you also put the details of that later but the romantical impact was already written neutrally.