obsessive-compulsive-desi:

my favourite thing is when people try to list every trait that makes a character diverse in a mockery of the idea of diversification, like “oooooohhhh maybe the special snowflakes need a black disabled lesbian trans woman in a wheelchair 🙄🙄” or “yeah let’s keep pandering to sjws and end up with a transgender dude who sexually identifies as a helicopter😂😂😂”  or spew shit like this:

all in an effort to make diversifying media sound ridiculous and so extra. But it’s funny, because what they don’t realize is that they and many of their supposedly “default” characters have SO MANY labels themselves.

like, your “average” protagonist is:

• thin
• white
• cisgender
• heterosexual
• allosexual 
• allistic 
• male 
• not physically disabled
• not mentally disabled
• physically healthy
• mentally healthy
• and presumably christian

that’s 12. Twelve whole fucking labels and that’s barely scratching the surface of basic characteristics your character will have. 

And like. people don’t realize that.
They don’t realize that there is is NO fucking reason these random, above-listed traits should be thought of and treated as “the standard” or “the norm” or the universal experience by people or the media. That characters with these traits are not an apolitical default.

That there is NO reason any traits besides these should be seen as frivolous, as unnecessary, as unimportant, as extra, ignorable, “niche” qualities. 

There is NO REASON any of these traits should be the default and anything else should be considered pandering to PC culture.

which is why making media more diverse will never, ever be ridiculous.