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I would say the over representation of lgbt ruined a lot of things. It’s a niche market due to small numbers. You want to make stuff that features gay themes then market to that audience. Stop infesting mainstream. The vast majority of people are straight. That is the norm. Is what it is.
The lgbtq shit is actually in mild retreat right now, but feminism hasn’t budged an inch. Every game show is full of new release trailers featuring girl bosses. For a hobby that is still obviously super majority male, the number of forced female protagonists is insane. No other industry has a bigger divide between product and customer.
Good point. I would say comics come close as well as the sci fi industry.
You (and Imp) are right about feminism. It’s definitely outside of just gaming and into normie consumer life. I see it everywhere that is typically a male dominated space. “Women in tech” has never been bigger or more incentivized to hire women at an extremely disproportionate rate. I’m constantly seeing women sports ball versions plastered everywhere like women’s flag football, WNBA, etc… and all over others spaces and media/genres like the recent Spartacus main character example. I saw someone else say “I’m sure the overlap between black women and Roman history nerds is huge enough for them to think it’s worth doing this.”
Imp is only sort of right. It's obviously not a hive mind conspiracy of every woman everywhere that rules all world events and can only be brought to heel by creating cloning vats and gene editing such that no women ever need be born again.
Skittles in any media tended to ruin it by demanding the media be made about being a skittle. Straight media included straight people doing things at times that are technically straight, like relationships between men and women and having kids, but it was not typically about being straight. It was about values, themes, historical settings, examining ideas, excellence, stylized action, comedy. Worthwhile, interesting things. Skittle media is about being a skittle and how everything that is not skittle is bad. Even skittles don’t really care to experience that because they’re not supporting the skittle movies and games, either.
A good piece of media with a skittle in it would typically be one that’s not at all about them skittling in which you probably wouldn’t even know they were skittle, which (((people))) don’t seem to want to allow.
Sorta like how a woman doesn’t qualify as representation unless she’s explicitly an insufferable feminist girl boss. And blacks don’t count as representation unless they are explicitly ghetto.
Exactly. That’s why you don’t see people talking about how James Earle Jones voiced Darth Vader or Carl Weathers was good representation in Predator or most of his films or Linda Hamilton in the Terminator series. Linda Hamilton is probably the best example because she actively represents motherhood because her entire character revolves around protecting and raising her kid. Nobody cares about them, only when they try to do She Hulk.
Well said