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political correctness in the writting community
The Deposed King:
I'll just add that throwing in real life problems and situations is all well and good, do it by all means.
Poking fun at things can be good too done right. I just try to make a point not to be out there willfully and beligerently sacrificing anyone's sacred cows.
wardenferry419:
PC -ness has turned Hermione and Mary Jane black and made Iron Man and other male Marvel characters female.
Darthmama:
Political Correctness is always a questionable topic. I personally think that it depends on one's target audience. If you're writing for adults then screw it and insult away, maybe they will learn something as they read your work. It's possible if unlikely due to adults being rather set in their ways and frankly you can't please everyone. For everyone out there parading your book because you did something like have an openly gay character or a black character there is another hissing that you have some political agenda and are forcing it down people's throats. There's no real win in the situation.
For a younger audience though it's trickier. Most people aren't out to teach sexism or racism but a younger audience picks up on the most random things. Parents can also be the biggest idiots about what is put in front of their child. Case in point the Harry Potter series and how people were saying it was teaching children witchcraft or the classic scare in the 80's with parents freaking out over D&D games.
Mith:
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I will say that this has nothing to do with political correctness, and everything to do with the fact that you go with the actor/actress' performance skills in stage theater, not their looks. Theater is full of non-typical castings like this.
As for the literature segment, I think that is more of "we have been milking this cash cow for so long we are running out of reboot ideas."
Although personally the change doesn't bother me in the slightest. When there can be canon story lines of Batman taking place on "Everyone is a Pirate world" I think it's more that everything is prone to change rather than political correctness.
wardenferry419:
For the longest time, the majority of geekdom was white male creators marketing mainly white male characters to a mostly white male audience. Geekdom is broadening so companies are going the easy route of twisting established characters to fit the expanding demographics instead of creating and building up new characters. Long run possibility established audience loses identification and interest.
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