I never said that that's my issue with him, or that that's a realistic goal. What I said is this:

I have no idea what you're replying to, since your comment doesn't follow from the content of mine.

I haven't made any speculations on why he chose or didn't choose to include certain types of characters. His reply to the question suggests laziness, but I don't have sufficient information to make that call.

Nope, but I think authors should be deliberate about why they choose to exclude certain groups of people from their books.

Only if I can ride it.

I don't think that he should or shouldn't try to make his work generalizeable. But I do think that authors should be careful and deliberate in their choices when writing. If an author is choosing to write for a predominantly white, straight audience, that's fine. But that's a choice. If they're unwilling to…

Nope, and not my point. I don't think every book has to include the full range of human experiences. But I do think that authors should be deliberate about their choices and not treat straight, white males as a default and everyone else as an artistic choice/statement that must be justified.

Then why do you object to 'Telling writers that their fantasy work in the genre of fantasy is not sufficiently representative of real world demographics'?

'Point out' and 'open their eyes' are both common English idioms meaning to show or demonstrate something to a person. I'm sorry if these words make you afraid, but they're very common and don't have racial or sexual roots, so I'm not inclined to stop using them.

So, people aren't allowed to criticize works of fiction. Got it.

You do like the answer. That doesn't mean it is a good and satisfactory answer.

I'm fine with that. Most of my 'Cause of Progress' work comes from webmastering for women's groups and domestic violence shelters and helping with minority and young women's STEM workshops. Can't do everything.

I've never lobbied any writers for anything, and have no intention to start, so no.

And I'm going to insist again that I think criticism and questioning are different from giving orders.

No, I'm not happy. The fact that he doesn't even have a good answer for why he chooses to continue to make the choice to have his POV characters be predominantly white and straight leads me to think that he doesn't much care about people like me. It makes me not like his writing as much, and how angry nerds get…

And who is saying that he's 'obligated'?

Well, that is still in my comment, so I'm not sure why you're accusing me of having edited it.

I can't speak to the asker's intent, since I don't know the asker. But my point in asking similar questions of authors I know has always been to get them to confront ways in which their narrative might not generalizeable to all people and to realize that straight, white and male isn't a global default human. That…

Who said it was?

Who is saying he shouldn't 'write as he wishes'? He can write whatever he wants. And I can criticize those choices as upholding a long tradition of excluding certain types of people from literature.