[ SECRET POST #3819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3819 ⌋

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[ketita]

Agreed. It annoys me because it's so obviously "diversity shorthand", like pop a hijab randomly on one of your characters and bam, diversity.
I guess I also notice it because Judaism never gets that sort of shorthand, because we don't have such an easy visual cue. Instead we get the "oh, I don't celebrate Christmas" one-liner that inevitably pops up, and that's it.

Part of it is, imo, that true diversity is actually really damn hard to write. I was briefly working on an idea that had an extremely diverse cast of characters (22 main characters, each one from a different country, and like 6 from Southeast Asia alone), and damn, it was daunting.
I see why people would want to take the shorthand that allows them to display diversity visually and then just get on with it. Even if it kind of sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to see media deal with details about different religi Na and cultures that are rarely represented. But at the same time, having a very diverse cast and going in-depth with each of their cultures/religions would be very daunting and likely overwhelm the plot. I hope to see more media in general that handles representation well (for example, one work may feature Judaism and Latino heritage, another may deal with Indonesian and Islam, etc) Like we shouldn't try to get our diversity quota in just by shoving it all in one work, that does justice to no one.

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Sometimes they randomly wear a yarmulke everywhere

[ketita]

Yeah. I mean the problem with that, of course, is that you never see any other elements of life that they would struggle with... like taking holidays off, or things being on the Sabbath, or never eating at events (and having their colleagues/friends be awkward or worried about him, or showing up like LOOK I FOUND A KOSHER THING FOR YOU :DDD, etc)

If it's a procedural or something with minimal characterization across the board that's one thing, I guess, but otherwise it's kind of annoying.