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Originally Posted by Ruin Explorer  Because Jozan and Hennet weren't enough white human dudes? What you even talking about? Kerwyn too. Jesus, how many white human men do we need exactly before it's not "peeing in marketing cornflakes"? I guess "more than three!". Seems like your position is untenable to me. |
His position is perfectly tenable. They needed exactly one. But they needed that one to be the classic warrior frontman. Not because a woman or any other race would not be accepted, but because a white male would be the most universally accepted amongst the target audience. Yeah, there are lots of other demographics, no one is doubting that. But if you don't think young white males are greatly over-represented amongst gamers with respect to their pure population numbers, then I think you haven't been around much.
The only other optimal marketing choice would have been a white female in skimpy clothes, and that would have been much worse.
And truly, once you get past all the PC BS, it isn't even about any kind of racial quality comparison. It is about making it as absolutely easy as possible for the would be customer to look at a cover or walk past a stand up and see their self in the picture. A young white male could think Will Smith's Hancock is the absolute coolest hero character ever to grace the screen and still find it easier to identify with Peter Parker. Perception of relative racial quality has nothing to do with it.
To the contrary, I get sick of the BS "more enlightened than thou" attitude that tries to force social injustice into anything and everything, regardless of how misplaced that view may be.
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