Oddly, I think their first two sentences could be valid, but not for the reasons they think they are.
Obviously they're imagining this evil, sinister cabal of liberals who are putting chemicals in the media to make characters gay. But on the opposite end of the spectrum, I do think there are a lot of corporations who fall into "rainbow capitalism" and have a problem of writing a character and saying "This character is gay. That's their one character trait, that'll make 'the gays' like it, right?"
This isn't unique to LGBT, POC, and so forth characters of course. And it certainly isn't as wide-spread as the OOP thinks, since they're likely the "two genders: male and political, two sexualities: straight and political, etc." type. But every now and then you do get a character who seems like a blatant token, or their other character traits get sacrificed to emphasize their sexuality or race or whatever, and their presence feels more offensive than if they just didn't include them at all.
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u/Rakanadyo 6d ago
Oddly, I think their first two sentences could be valid, but not for the reasons they think they are.
Obviously they're imagining this evil, sinister cabal of liberals who are putting chemicals in the media to make characters gay. But on the opposite end of the spectrum, I do think there are a lot of corporations who fall into "rainbow capitalism" and have a problem of writing a character and saying "This character is gay. That's their one character trait, that'll make 'the gays' like it, right?"
This isn't unique to LGBT, POC, and so forth characters of course. And it certainly isn't as wide-spread as the OOP thinks, since they're likely the "two genders: male and political, two sexualities: straight and political, etc." type. But every now and then you do get a character who seems like a blatant token, or their other character traits get sacrificed to emphasize their sexuality or race or whatever, and their presence feels more offensive than if they just didn't include them at all.