too many of the Sims in the gallery are white, and say that players of color are generally speaking underserved by The Sims and its fanbase.

Yep, doesn’t matter how you handle something, someone is always going to be offended.

This point, I think, is valid.

“Others say that they just don’t feel confident making Sims from races other than their own, either because they don’t want to mess it up and look disrespectful, or they’re afraid of retribution from other players if they do it wrong.”

The cultural appropriation crowd will come out. Who…

Complaining about lack of diversity in the official products? I can see.

But complaining about lack of diversity in fan-made creations? What’s stopping you from adding your own creations. You know... As a Sims Fan... Increasing the diversity among the existing fan-made creations...

fans wanting more fan-made creations of a specific type sounds like a solvable problem to me. There are some interesting points made here with regards to the power/diversity of said creation tools, but I couldn’t have guessed that from the misleading headline. Also, 10 out of 50 isn’t so bad representation wise, when…

Cool, and people can criticize her however they want. I hate this attitude that fans should be grateful for everything a creator puts out and that they’re perfect and incapable of making bad decisions. Criticism is an important part of how we consume media and just blindly following someone and liking everything they…

I don’t think the books ever implied Hermione was black. I think it’s a cool interpretation, but considering the cover art, casting, merchandise, etc. it’s pretty clear Rowling originally envisioned her as white. Especially since she explicitly points out characters who are black. I think a lot of the changes she’s…

I have a hard time buying that Rowling ever considered Hermione to be black during the original run. True she is never explicitly referred to as white, but how many white characters are? Dean Thomas and Kingsley Shacklebolt are both explicitly described so why not a major character?

Okay. So first, whenever you say, “I haven’t watched/read/heard that media item, but I’m going to debate it with you,” you are about to commit a Major Stupid. So we’ll set aside Harry Potter for now with the understanding that it’s because talking about it with you is pointless, not because your arguments have any…

I never found the “Dumbledore is gay” thing to be too irritating simply because I thought these were basically author’s notes that she released post- final story. Just stuff she thought may be interesting to fans wanting to know how she arrived at certain things in the books....

But then she goes and chips in and says…

There’s multiple references to her turning red or being pale or losing color in her face and stuff. These terms and phrases aren’t generally used to describe black people.

I just see these changes that JK makes to say hey yall I'm still here and I want to be relevant. Decades later saying that Nagini is a woman is such a cheap trick lol, why didn't she reveal it way back then? Sadly JK is all about the publicity now. 

JK Rowling has drawn her own illustrations of the characters and depicted Hermione as white since Day 1. Casting a black woman in an adaptation is fine, but saying that Hermione was NEVER explicitly white is pretty disingenuous considering that is how JK drew her and also approved of every other visual representation…

Making him gay makes his random complete change of personality and morals around Grindelwald make sense. It’s unrequited love. If he wasn’t in love with Grindelwald, then it’s super confusing why he did those things. 

As far as I can remember, there are no explicitely Christian characters either.

Except ... if the major villain of the series was a romantic partner of the old mentor ... it kinda is important to the book?  I mean, if one or the other had been female ... I’m pretty fucking sure it’d have come up.

Wow, that’s some really toxic fandom there. Don’t you know that liking anything means you have to uncritically accept any decision made by whoever owns the licence regardless of personal taste or even the basic rules of story telling? I bet you like all the politicians I hate and hate all the causes that are important…

Rowling is the George Lucas of her age. She stumbled onto something that defined a generation of people who, right or wrong, look to her as the keeper of that mythology— a mythology that grew more interesting in the early post-book days, but which has reached levels of “STOP SPECIAL EDITIONING US TO DEATH!” There are…

Then why does she force the issue after the fact? Or better yet, how is it not? How is a person’s sexuality ever an unimportant part of their being as a person?

shockingly, people have the ability to care about multiple things, and when the author of a VERY, INCREDIBLY popular young adult fiction series that most twenty-somethings read when they were growing up and that most likely (for better or worse) informed some of their worldviews decides to retcon stuff to appear Mega…