Yeah, it's just there's this whole unexplained thing. Maybe he was going to one day get round to telling that story, but he didn't, so all we can do is speculate. In any case, the lack of detail or stories about the non-white people (and how they are the bad guys) kind of is a little uncomfortable.

It's weird because apparently they were integral to defeating Sauron, but it was never explained what they did or why, so why even have them as characters? It's also weird because one half of the world, from Gondor to Arnor to all the Elven and Dwarven kingdoms have so much lore (to the point of having several fake…

I kind of think, in the comments for an article about how a young latino man in the 1980's felt ostracised by geek culture for being too latino, and by latino culture for being too much of a nerd, to move the discussion towards something some website wrote 20 something years later is kind of moving the goal posts. As…

You've kind of proven the entire point of this article. This weird idea that, all of a sudden, a previously uninterested (diverse) mainstream became interested in nerd culture is just not true. People did not pop up 'literally overnight'. It only seems that way because they forced you to pay attention to them, in the…

I think you're misunderstanding what it feels like to me a minority. I don't know if you're white or not but you sound like you are.

It wasn't ever really a problem for me. Then again, I grew up in the 90's/2000's in the UK, so my experience is pretty different to Americans.

I feel like this argument is missing something. True, I can understand why nerd culture might feel as though it's unfairly being spotlighted as a cultural problem, but let's be honest: if nerd culture was welcoming to 'outsiders', then it wouldn't have the problem of being… criticised for not being welcoming to…

I think that writers from other cultures tend to be drawn more towards magical realism than fantasy. I mean, it's almost the same thing, except often magical realism is more of a statement on belief, superstition and experience itself - and that literary function gives it more weight in our literary canon. You don't…

I'm black and I love superheroes and anime, but I can definitely see why someone wouldn't - because those things are so often just not interested in speaking to our experiences. But there's more to my identity than that, and I can connect to things on different levels.

But isn't that it - people are a little afraid to take on a culture they aren't a part of - but the industry is also afraid to give the people who are capable of doing that a chance. I've seen some white authors try (and fail) to take on race in fantasy and the backlash they received was pretty strong.

Thing is, most fantasy world do have their versions of Africa/Asia, but they're 'over there' somewhere on the other side of the map, not that fleshed out, and really just a way of showing the world is diverse without actually having to make it diverse. I mean, Lord of the rings has Far Harad and the East, where…

Maybe they should rename the ppv 'Code of Honour'.

Home ownership kind of is the apotheosis of maturity in a neoliberal system. Because we live in a world where young adults are demonized for not being as humourless and dutiful as their parents, but are also incredibly unfortunate in that, due to the policies and decisions of our elders, we have half of the wealth of…

Pre-arabic Egypt is very much associated with Africa - the problem is that when someone says 'Africa' people automatically think of sub-Saharan Africa, of tribalism etc, which is exactly my point. Some people don't even think it's a continent, and not acknowledging its diversity is a huge problem.

I definitely think when people say aliens built the pyramids, that it's more often than not based on racism. It's not just a case of 'How did humans build this?' but 'How did Africans build this. If it were in Athens or Rome people wouldn't hold to that theory as much.

Well, some women really don't like the idea of their boyfriends being bi. Maybe it's insecurity, maybe it's because some people believe bi people don't exist and bi men are really just gay men who are kidding themselves.

I actually disagree with you on both counts (though it's your opinion, and that's just as valid as what I'm about to say).

That would completely be a fair point for that guest to make if the husband was the one saying 'We should go poly! BTW no dudes tho', but she's the one who brought it up.

A game's genre doesn't immediately denote quality, but it does denote things like form and style, things where it's definitely better to have more diversity, for the sake of art if nothing else.

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