Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
People who already belong to the accepted ingroup in society always have a hard time imagining what it's like not being part of the normalized group. Representation is not only a step towards normalization of a previous group outside the norms of society but also gives them a voice to speak with. When you have a voice and a language to speak with as group you can achieve something as group, otherwise your problems will go unheard.

I always find it very strange when people bring up the bad writing argument, I've seen it time and time again when the hot topic in gaming was female protagonists. It always went something like 'female protagonists are fine but only if they are written well'. Is that not a standard we have for how male protagonists are written?
They bring up because its a real thing that has happened. You cannot prop up writing with just saying you're taking a stance for minorities. Anyways, ff14 never portrayed itself as wanting to do that, it has no obligation to, and acting like everyone who don't choose to fight every minorities battle are against them is the most cringe thing ever.