Quote Originally Posted by Melorie View Post
Besides, this whole "aww this is western culture!" is so stupid. You know what is western culture is as well? It is great at creating stereotypes of other cultures and reducing their complexities. That's what you are doing when you act like people being able to be in stories with different aspects of humanity represented is something exclusive to western culture. Conservative americans and europeans love to use other cultures as a token in other to justify their own prejudices. Don't get me wrong, I have tons of criticism to the whole marvelesque hollow way of including certain aspects of people in media, but still, buying this "old men yelling at clouds" from conservative people isn't going to help anyone.

Funny to see all this talk of "tolerance" from the same people that claims they love storytelling, but can't deal with a bunch of gays, or with a romance, or whatever. Tell me about lack of tolerance.
Let me put it this way, if the story is set in the land where the prejudice and racism run rampant, very xenophobic, isolated, and homophobic, as well as that has very pale native inhabitants. Suddenly, despite the setting/lore, there's a dark-back character who is openly gay and tell everyone he meets that he is gay, yet, despite the setting of the location and lore, he serves no other purposes beside telling other people and players that he is dark and gay native, that, in my opinion, is what the token character is; the character than has no "character" and reason to be there beside to "be there" and make it more "inclusive" than it should be. Representation is good when it's not forceful and is flowing in the way the story progress, not just "just put one black man here and call it off" without serving any purpose. What I see in many western spheres is the notion of "just put gay or black characters here! What's so hard about that!" in which doesn't only disrupt the flow and logic of the world/setting, but instead of promoting diversity, they, on the contrary, also create the sense of animosity toward those people you want to represent as well, because, in the end, many people just want to play a good game, regardless of having representations or not.