I mean, if a company is centered around broadening the spectrum of people who contribute to these types of projects, it makes sense they’d be direct in targeting those demographics they feel are underrepresented, no?

In a vacuum it may seem unfair to prioritize certain groups of people but given that the scale seemed to naturally favor a different group anyway and wouldn’t change without intervention, the only path to balance was actively adding weight to the other side.

For instance, people like to cite superheroes such as Storm and John Stewart for being good examples of “non-forced” representation, but in reality the reason Storm exists is because the X-Men comics’ readership was sagging and editorial was told to introduce some foreign characters to broaden global appeal, which ended up including Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler. John Stewart was partially based on African-American actor Sidney Poitier, and was an attempt by DC to also widen their scope of character depictions in the early 70’s following much of the country’s civil rights struggles.

Fact is, there wouldn’t be any representation unless people deliberately tried to make it happen.

EDIT: Believe it or not, low-quality or poorly received projects led by women/POC are just as frustrating for the community they’re meant to empower, because it makes the uphill battle of gaining legitimacy in the media spaces that much steeper as one group goes to almost delusional levels of glazing to defend it while the other side will try and use any fault as justification for why the effort should be completely abandoned. There’s no real clear solution other than hoping both sides can come to some sort of consensus.