CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
To me it feels like pandering and tokenism as these shoe-horned characters tend to be poorly written or are inflated in terms of capability and skill with all the other characters nerfed to prop them up (a more modern example is Rey knowing more about the Millennium Falcon than Han Solo who flew the the thing for decades).
This comes off as cheap and as though Rowling is pandering, so that she can say that her books were ahead of the times in terms of "progressiveness" and "wokeness." This just seems very patronizing to me. What do you guys think?
I think plenty of SJW type creators are trying to be the “We did this first!” or “We are among the few doing this!” or “We’re fucking revolutionary!”
There were already lots of minority characters or women and non-white characters in fiction that people liked and regularly appeared, difference was that their creators weren’t constantly making such a big deal about being “revolutionary” or being the “first ever”
JK Rowling’s just trying to get attention, that’s it, I think she hasn’t written much or made a big success after Harry Potter