>>39079056Not that guy, but I'm in some lit circles and I've been seeing this type of conversations between authors since the whole "cultural appropriation" thing got big and lefties started to pile up on white authors for "daring" to write about PoC characters and cultures while also demonizing those who don't write enough PoCs.
The majority prefers avoid talking about it and ignores it as best as they can out of fear of being called racist.
Female leads have a similar problem where a lot of people can't accept they're shown with flaws and hardships natural to any lead.
There's a reason why white male leads are considered the safest leads nowadays even in the current social mood: they may say you're boring and unoriginal and imply you're passively promoting racism, but that's where it ends; none of this unending headaches (normally).
Personally, I'm of the opinion that if you want to make a dark-skinned qt with emerald eyes and a rocking viking helmet, it's your fucking creation and you have the right to make whatever and ignore the cunts crying about how a piece of fiction doesn't validate their view of reality. Sadly a lot of artists seem to be easily intimidated by this type of bullshit.
