So are you saying that inclusive content needs to be proportionally high (in any given work) or it hasn't gone far enough?
No. I didn't speak to any proportions of content at all!
I said that, if you are in a state of inequity, if you don't get pushback, what you've done is not a significant step towards equity.
As a practical matter, and speaking as a broad generalization, folks who sit in a dominant place in culture want to remain in such a position, because that position feels good. If you treat them like equals, instead, that feels less good, and they will gripe about that. The "negative reaction" is a sign that you moved meaningfully in the right direction. And, indeed, those in a dominant place are often
extremely sensitive, and will often give pushback over tiny things that question that dominance. So, you don't need much inclusive content at all - just a little bit usually does the trick to set people off. Egos... are kind of fragile, sometimes.
Also, as a tangent: "proportionally high" means little. It is language that sounds important, but does not clearly state the situation.
Let me take a stick, one meter long. I paint one quarter of it black, and three-quarters white.
I take another stick, one meter long. I paint 251 millimeters of it black, and 749 millimeters of it white.
Technically, the amount of black on the second stick is "proportionally high" compared to the first one. The language, being vague, hides the fact that it is a very small difference. By not specifying, we are left to assumptions, and to
feel that it is a big deal, when it isn't.
So, I reject the "proportionally high" characterization. It wasn't what I said, and the language tends to mislead.
