Blah blah blah, I'm not a talkative or wordy person, so here we go.
I think SV's user generated fiction and content has a problem, and that problem is that it's very... Very fucking White and "Ethnic groups the average nerd things are cool". And by that I mean we're basically the surface image of Battletech when it comes to our fiction: We've got a bunch of various flavors of White, Some asians for that mysterious oriental/Cool Anime flavor, and then you throw in a smattering of other minorities for color. and exoticness. You hardly ever see Black or Latino or Pacific Islander protagonists, and when you do they're either just Maui, or are oversexualized all to heck. I know there's good reasons for it and all, but whatever.
It's just a thing that struck me, but I've also basically accepted it. I fucking love giant robots and sci-fi, and I also love fantasy. They're my favorite genres of anything ever, and I've 100% accepted that I aint going to see a black guy in a leading role in any of that- except for Tapp Oceano in Dragonar, and Roy Greenhilt in Order of the Stick.
And sure, I know what the response will be: "Just make your own fiction if you want black men to be in leading roles", "It's not a problem because black people have sports and Crime fiction", and the favorite "Black people just aren't attractive or interesting to write or draw". Oh and I can't forget "I don't want to offend minorities by putting them into a thing and somehow pulling a Tom Kratman writes Athene into his books on them"
I think SV's user generated fiction and content has a problem, and that problem is that it's very... Very fucking White and "Ethnic groups the average nerd things are cool". And by that I mean we're basically the surface image of Battletech when it comes to our fiction: We've got a bunch of various flavors of White, Some asians for that mysterious oriental/Cool Anime flavor, and then you throw in a smattering of other minorities for color. and exoticness. You hardly ever see Black or Latino or Pacific Islander protagonists, and when you do they're either just Maui, or are oversexualized all to heck. I know there's good reasons for it and all, but whatever.
It's just a thing that struck me, but I've also basically accepted it. I fucking love giant robots and sci-fi, and I also love fantasy. They're my favorite genres of anything ever, and I've 100% accepted that I aint going to see a black guy in a leading role in any of that- except for Tapp Oceano in Dragonar, and Roy Greenhilt in Order of the Stick.
And sure, I know what the response will be: "Just make your own fiction if you want black men to be in leading roles", "It's not a problem because black people have sports and Crime fiction", and the favorite "Black people just aren't attractive or interesting to write or draw". Oh and I can't forget "I don't want to offend minorities by putting them into a thing and somehow pulling a Tom Kratman writes Athene into his books on them"
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