- Location
- Albany, NY
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I do think treating all critics as Cranks is a real waste of time. I think if someone tries to include a queer character and gets pushback its about the nature of the portrayal rather then the portrayal existing. It's more then fair and very reasonable for someone who wrote a First Nations character as a "Noble Savage" to get rough pushback, the problem isn't the fact there is a First Nations character but what they did with it. If your Queer character is some male fantasy bisexual or lesbian woman, or if your Jewish character is obsessively greedy or if women can't talk about anything but men, or for that matter if its a Disney blink and you miss it piece of representation to be cut out for the Chinese Market, critiques are going to come.
If someone has a problem with the depiction of a Trans character that doesn't mean a Cis Person shouldn't write a Trans character, it means that they should probably do some more work to make sure that depiction works, or is reasonable. And if that pushback means that you're going to complain how unfair it all is and that there's no way to do it, well that just seems lazy to me.
If someone has a problem with the depiction of a Trans character that doesn't mean a Cis Person shouldn't write a Trans character, it means that they should probably do some more work to make sure that depiction works, or is reasonable. And if that pushback means that you're going to complain how unfair it all is and that there's no way to do it, well that just seems lazy to me.