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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 8473362" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Honestly, I find a lot of the posturing here being fairly hypocritical, self-serving, and needlessly condescending. (Need I remind everybody here how much indifference and how little actual support I found a few years back when I found myself in the position of being culturally hurt? And now everybody magically cares about these issues?) This isn't as complicated as some may want it to be. Representation is needed, and good. Bad representation isn't inherently bad in a vacuum. The problem isn't necessarily that the people creating the content is depicting people and cultures outside their own identity, the problem is who has the resources to create content. No matter how well intentioned the people creating content are and how well researched everything is and how many sensitivity readers get involved, any depiction coming from the outside will always be off at best. But this wouldn't be a problem if more and more people were content creators on equal footing, then it wouldn't matter how wrong depictions get, because under these circumstances, there is still a more authentic depiction out there that counters it. (It wouldn't matter how wrong Coco go it, if everybody who saw it also watched a more authentic film done by a Mexican crew in Mexico.)What you do in your own home game makes so little harm and so little good as to be negligible. Any attempt to police and self-censor in the context of your own home game -and I would add that it is the same whether you do it in an actual home or in a forum in the dark web, or even in a thread here in Enworld- is a waste of time at best, and unneeded conflict at worst. Regardless, it is energy best spent on doing things that actually change the playing field. Do things to encourage more and diverse creators instead of getting into needless fights with your peers at the table -or worse with the people on other tables other than your own-. It is just not productive and it erodes them as safe spaces that allow people to explore their own identity. But hey, that is just an opinion. I'm just a third worlder and I know my place. I know from experience here that I'm a tolerated guest on a good day and that what I say won't matter. Best regards.</blockquote>

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