There's always been words for trans and intersex people. Hijras, two spirit, gala priests, Kathoeys, Khanith, I believe there are even more but I think it's pretty interesting.
However, if tokenism/poorly portrayed POC bothers you and then instead of weaponizing it against POC and using it as an argument to just not include non white people weaponize it against the people who portray non white people poorly.
Yeah I hate tokenism and fetishization. When I say we could do with more POC characters i don't mean random POC placed in few select plot lines where it doesn't make sense. Because let's face it, in most story lines a character being literally any other race but white seems perfectly fine.
Some people like to come up with the weirdest reasons for this. A lot of people while cry anything else besides racism. As soon as racism is mentioned as a cause for these things its really controversial for no real reason.
Thank you so much for allowing me to talk about this without getting upset. Last time I tried to talk about this it was about a year ago and some people got so mad at me and it was very upsetting.
I also have no issue with people only playing white characters. It just starts to bother me a little when it's every single character and they're all the same. When some people begin to explain why they don't play as non white characters(not that I've ever asked anyone directly, that would be...
This is true. I live in the US however and where I am the majority of people are not white but I do understand that overall the majority of the population is. I do notice though that the amount of non white characters is very disproportionate compared to the amount of non white people in real...
It would be nice to see more POC characters. Maybe I just don't look around enough but the overwhelming majority of characters that people like to play seem to be white and when my character is a different race some people voice discomfort and it makes me very sad to see. I understand being...
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