ok but like. why do ppl make a point to say “THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS WON’T BE HAPPY UNTIL THEY GET A FAT LESBIAN ASIAN GIRL IN A WHEELCHAIR” like that’s some sort of ridiculous extreme when actually that’s ……real people ….ppl like that actually exist what the fuck do you think you’re getting at……….
exactly
“But you can’t make characters diverse for the sake of just diversi-“
NO. Stop saying that. That is an unbelievably wrong thing to think.
In the real, actual world we live in, human beings are random, unpredictable grab-bags of characteristics. Any given person, with any given personality, interests or aspirations, could also just happen to be a black lesbian or a nonbinary asexual Korean or a white bisexual trans man, all just incidental to everything else about them. They might want to be explorers or doctors or inventors or politicians, you never know. There’s no particular way they talk or think or dress or act.
That is how the actual, real human species works, everywhere, always, and that is why fiction should be reflecting that a fuckton more often than it currently does. Diversity just is. It is actually present in reality “for its own sake” and there doesn’t need to be any further “justification” for it in fiction.
No matter how many times I’ve heard doomsaying about the evils of “shoehorned” or “forced” diversity I have never once actually seen that hurting anything. Nobody has ever been able to name for me a series, a movie, a book or a game where the mere presence of poc, women or LGBTA characters in themselves actually made the experience worse. You’re totally welcome to try, but I’ve asked before, and still never been given any titles to look into and review. I’d LOVE to see this “bad tokenism” in action and analyze its ups and downs, I mean, I keep hearing about it, so where the hell is it? What does it look like? I don’t know. It’s almost as if it’s an empty, meaningless complaint concocted by racists or something.
“But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!”
“I get ribbed for that line because it was so whiny. And I remember at the time, I had to make it as juvenile as possible so that I can show how Luke matures later. So it should be embarrassing. It should be whiny and childish. But boy, has it come back to haunt me. I don’t think I ever got the chance to finally pick them up.” – Mark Hamill
#i’ve argued that since forever, #‘nah my favourite character is lu-’, #‘BUT POWER CONVERTERS’, #YES, #THAT’S PART OF WHY I LIKE HIM, #THAT WHINY LITTLE KID MARCHES INTO A CRIME LORD’S PALACE AND WRECKS EVERYTHING, #AND SAVES HIS FATHER’S SOUL, #WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY (via anghraine)
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