Well, they finally did it.
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I assume it is going to be slow boiling frog. We have the lore change but no female minis for a while, let people get used to the idea and then introduce more female characters and minis.
Yeah, you've already got the plants and white knights in that thread going "there probably won't be female minis, so I won't care"
The same strategy was employed in comic books. Replacing established heroes with diversity replacements or changes was done at the fringes. They weren't going to make Superman gay, but Alan Scott? Ripe for a makeover take over.
It's funny because Muh Diversity replacements can he pointed and laughed at as examples of how checkmark box X filler race/sex swap just shows the authors are admittong that demographic doesn't deserve its own character.
Now consider the subtle implications that the only way a black character can exist is by stealing
my bikethe identity of a white character.