Re: Thoughts on Shoehorning unrelated content into works of entertainment.
As a liberal democrat with more progressive leaning views on most things....
...I have to agree with the poster here. Lots of content creaters really do not know how to include minority groups or women in a very tasteful and normal way. Instead, it just feels like it's in your face half the time that so is so is a woman and isn't that grand? Reminds me of the blind person climbing a staircase thing being something people should clap at.
most cringe worthy example I can think of was one of the trailers for batwoman. They played up the fact that she was a woman way more than as someone who had to compete with the dark knight's legacy throughout the city. That was honestly the most cringe thing I ever had to watch for a trailer.
It's like when people focus on us due to our disability rather than the disability just being considered a random character trait. I really doubt these groups enjoy having their identity used as a novelty in a show, rather than just including a lawyer who one might bump into casually on the streets with her female partner, before discussing whatever the case is.
I also hate the fact writers use their influence to try to forward their political beliefs through established works of fiction. You have a large audience, there's other ways to communicate this through your fanbase without making stories sound weird. Make another political series, or use whatever fanbase sites or blogs one might be running that people will read. The experience just gets jarring when social commentary is put into a series where none was had before. Sort of the opposite case if social commentary was a core part of the series in the first place.
Though, that is an amusing series type. Having a good chunk of your writing change based on real world events, and adapting one's story to that. Though hopefully that series doesn't include a section about wasteland survival in the radioactive lands of the U.S.A.
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