Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Sigma-Astra]

I see what's being said, but I'm hardly the first person to speak on behalf of people. I'm not equating the issue, but just using an example, Martin Luther King spoke up for others. Nelson Mandela spoke up for others, etc. We have a whole Me Too movement going on where people are speaking up for people. We had gay marriage where people spoke up for people. While character creation in a video game is no where near as drastic or severe as those real life issues (and is very trite in comparison), I've never known it to be a problem to speak up for others. I acknowledge that there are black people who never wanted to be integrated, there are gay people who didn't want gay marriage or believed in it, there are women who can't stand the Me Too movement, but it doesn't change the fact that there were others who did and that their opponents still benefit from it. I can't expect to get these things if I don't call it out or speak up on it. I'm sure if we did get the other nose, lips, hair options; that there would be people who disagree with the premise now who may utilize them in the future. But if not, they still have the option to. Does that make sense?

Well, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, both very important people, spoke up during times where black people were not shown or given the same freedom and equality as white people, they stood against a sea of bias hatred and fear because others were either too afraid of being put in jail or worse, killed for their beliefs to freely speak their rights and outcry against others for trying to take them away. But, you're also in agreement that character creation is very trite in comparison towards those issues....same thing with using the Me Too movement which is also a very serious issue. It's fine to speak up and advocate that you want more styles that you think are lacking. But again, that's you. What you perceive is not what everyone else perceives. You are speaking up for what you believe is lacking, you shouldn't be speaking up for an entire and large group of people because you feel or think that they're slighted or that they should feel slighted for it, namely a whole ethnicity. And that's fine, it's fine to speak up for what you believe is lacking. But, don't label it as a racial issue or that you need to speak for an entire group of people and that's your excuse.

I shouldn't speak up, not that I would, for the entirety of another race even if I was part of that said race. It's not my place. It's not your place. It's no one's place on this really. Doing so would make me look and feel arrogant that I'm somehow more important and able to clarify what an entire race of people want and that I'm some expert on it, when clearly, we're all definitely not. Just because you're part of said race, does not mean that you can speak up for what others want and that you know better than they do initially.

That's the thing.