wow have we reached a stage in society where this is a real issue and we have a CAMPAIGN where we use #miiquality
The funny thing is that even when a game like Mass Effect puts in a token gay character for no other reason than to 'enhance the diversity' of the game, the social justice warriors eat it up. Doesn't it sort of drive a divide between straight and gay people to create a paradigm where developers/authors/directors are considered loveist or homophobic when they don't put in a 'statistically realistic' cast of women, men, and gay people?
Furthermore, I don't expect game developers to balance out the number of male and female cast members to be 50/50 because it's not important to the story. People write plots to tell a story/teach a lesson or have some other kind of purpose as a work of art. If the setting and diversity of the cast isn't ancillary to the message the story wants to tell, then it's not loving important.
Case 1: The
Extreme Ghostbusters TV series. What was once a really great comedy-horror movie with an all male cast of parapsychologists ended up a diversified-gender/race/disabled friendly Frankenstein of a show. You don't really even have to watch all the episodes of this show to understand that the only reason they stuck in a nerdy guy, a black guy, a hipster goth chick, a mexican, and a disabled white guy is so that they could cover all their bases in terms of viewer demographics.
Case 2: The Bechdel Women-Hater test. The idea of the Bechdel test is that all movies are loveist unless they feature two prominent female cast members talking to each other about something other than a man. This rule is of course, loving stupid because it labels movies as loveist that just feature characters in a setting where this kind of conversation probably won't happen in the plot. It doesn't matter if your movie is set in battlefields in Vietnam where women didn't serve in infantry. Your movie is loveist unless it cuts to a scene back in the mainland US where two female characters are talking about how much they like Denny's new coffee blend. It also totally doesn't matter if you have a movie like Pacific Rim which features a strong, resilient female character like Maki Mori because she didn't talk to some other female character about something other than a man. That movie is
loveist too.
