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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7870038" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p>To be fair, I don't think that most people are deliberately bigoted. But most people (and by most I mean all) have unconscious biases that impact their perception of things. Note that that does not make those biases <strong><em>okay. </em></strong>In most instances they are very much not. But without introspection biases just seem like perfectly natural and normal thoughts and feelings.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I got to watch the internet lose its goddamn mind twice in rapid succession over Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age having a single trans character each, just being there, minor NPCs existing in the game world, and how many people for whom this simple act of a trans person <em>existing </em>was downright <strong><em>unacceptable. </em></strong></p><p></p><p>See, the thing with diversity, at least from a passive, pop culture perspective, is primarily about the acknowledgment that people different from you exist in the world and might be involved in the types of stories being consumed. Sure, representation is a plus and important too, but at the most fundamental level it is about simple existence. </p><p></p><p>Perception is a big piece of this; a lot of "think of it from my perspective". Well, this is my perspective: a not insignificant portion of the population treat the existence of someone like me in the stories they consume as a bridge too far for them. Regardless of <em>why</em> that is, exactly how is that supposed to make me feel about how they would treat my actual existence, in the real world?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7870038, member: 57112"] To be fair, I don't think that most people are deliberately bigoted. But most people (and by most I mean all) have unconscious biases that impact their perception of things. Note that that does not make those biases [B][I]okay. [/I][/B]In most instances they are very much not. But without introspection biases just seem like perfectly natural and normal thoughts and feelings. On the other hand, I got to watch the internet lose its goddamn mind twice in rapid succession over Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age having a single trans character each, just being there, minor NPCs existing in the game world, and how many people for whom this simple act of a trans person [I]existing [/I]was downright [B][I]unacceptable. [/I][/B] See, the thing with diversity, at least from a passive, pop culture perspective, is primarily about the acknowledgment that people different from you exist in the world and might be involved in the types of stories being consumed. Sure, representation is a plus and important too, but at the most fundamental level it is about simple existence. Perception is a big piece of this; a lot of "think of it from my perspective". Well, this is my perspective: a not insignificant portion of the population treat the existence of someone like me in the stories they consume as a bridge too far for them. Regardless of [I]why[/I] that is, exactly how is that supposed to make me feel about how they would treat my actual existence, in the real world? [/QUOTE]
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