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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-09-20 07:02 pm

[ SECRET POST #2088 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2088 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-09-21 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
But why wouldn't roughly half a cast be female in a non-gender-restricted setting (ie. certain period pieces, boys-only schools, etc.)? I mean. Slightly over half the population of the human race, here. It's kind of disturbing that having a cast that roughly approximates the demographics of our species (instead of presenting a human race where the majority are apparently men) is tokenism.
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[personal profile] maverickz3r0 2012-09-21 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
They would! Maybe I phrased it badly.

See, I don't see people who add more female characters simply for the sake of adding female characters as doing a good thing. (Insert underrepresented group here in place of female if you like.) It feels like they're ticking off boxes on a checklist instead of putting in actual effort toward making a cast and characters. 'Female characters? Check! Black characters? Check! Gay characters? Check!' A lot of the time, this is what it comes across as in media.

An actual cast with developed characters of all types is great, but people who are doing the checklist thing tend to just throw together tokens and stereotypes in a half-hearted effort to go 'see, we know you exist!' Which is what it feels like with secrets like this; the OP seems to just want female characters without particularly caring if they're developed or not stereotypes, as long as they're female.