I… have a bone to pick with Geek Culture(TM).

knightofbalance-13:

matt0044:

Specifically with the way many with it vilifies Feminism, LGBT+ inclusion and diversity overall. If there’s even a meager challenge to the status quo, you can be sure so many will be keen to kick up a fuss.

Many will use stock phrases that go along the lines of, “Can we not have XYZ politics in our entertainment?” whenever there’s some statement about what, say, an upcoming show is all about.

As though there’s some sort of unspoken rule about what the media we consume should or should not depict. As though that isn’t advocating for censorship in and of itself.

I would love to discuss how there are indeed pitfall when it comes to hiring based on gender or race specifically. I would love to discuss how focusing on diversity in your work may lead to tunnel vision when it come to storytelling and characterization.

Yet there’s this overwhelming vibe that broadcasts, “This is not up for discussion so shut up and enjoy the escapism.” As though they’d rather bury their heads in the sand.

What makes us any better than the SJWs we regularly scorn?

In one word:

Tokenism.

These people do not care about true diversity, diversity of thought or diversity of opinions or diversity of personality. They just want a black guy or a gay lady and that’s ALL they care about.

Remember Illa? Remember how in the fandom, she is almost completely defined as ‘the gay lizard’ despite things like her conflict between her trauma and morality, her personal interactions with Blake, the reaction she has to how the world treated her and so much more was more consequential and more related to her character than her being gay? Yeah, taht’s the issue. These people only care about something vapid and meaningless and the people who do this immoral shit usually ARE vapid and meaningless.

And eventually, people are just gonna have a character be gay or be black…and that’s it. No actual personality. No actual struggles. Nothing to denoute them as an actual person: they’re just the Minority TM because it’s easy, lazy and gets them money.

SO i’d prefer to AVOID this thank you very much.