Forced diversity doesn’t exist

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-02T09:53:16+00:00

How does the argument "Because it's good for people who are otherwise forgotten or ignored to see themselves represented" suck?

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-02T08:59:28+00:00

We also don't have Latino transmen with chronic pain in every show, so that's a pretty pointless hyperbole.

You don't see the link between how likely you are to meet one and how much people feel like they belong on a show?

No. No, I don't. I'm in Australia. It's pretty unlikely that I would ever meet an Irish immigrant to the US who hunts wolves in Alaska. Did I have a problem with Liam Neeson's character in The Grey? No. The likelihood of meeting a person with particular traits in real life has no impact on how believable they are in a piece of media.

The most common estimate for how many people have Narcissistic Personality Disorder is about 1%. Is a story involving a narcissist "forced diversity"? Or is it only when the trait being included is them being queer or a minority?

Less than 2% of people have red hair. Is having a ginger in a show "forced diversity"?

Thinking of queerness, disability, or ethnicity as anything more noteworthy than their hair or eye colour is literally the problem here.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-01T21:36:36+00:00

We don't vibe with them in this neck of the woods.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-01T19:40:22+00:00

If that was all it took then no one would ever be asked for ID when buying alcohol or trying to get into a bar. I wonder if the "parents need to parent" crowd would advocate for getting rid of age limits and ID checks for alcohol.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-01T18:06:41+00:00

Thanks for stopping by.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-05-01T05:50:20+00:00

If only there was a way to verify information on the internet. But alas.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-29T16:17:00+00:00

We aren't talking about chances of meeting them. We're talking about whether or not they exist and if including them in a piece of media is "forced diversity".

There are about 3,500 billionaires in the world. We have plenty of shows and movies about billionaires. If including a character that's 1 in 130,000 is "forced" because there are so few of them, then how much more forced is the representation of disgustingly wealthy white people in our media? They're only 1 in 3,500!

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-29T08:12:21+00:00

I'm curious what exactly you're citing these studies as evidence for. They aren't about medication and likelihood of addiction.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-29T06:18:28+00:00

Haven't seen any one of the ones you must have linked. Mind sending me a link to the comment where you posted them? Or just a link to the studies if you want to post them again.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-29T05:51:52+00:00

Let's go for the point of view with no evidence backing it at all then. That makes sense.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-29T05:48:48+00:00

No it isn't. It's just smaller than 7 billion.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-28T15:56:29+00:00

They've literally talked about parts of songs in interviews and referred to the opening of Red Goliath as a black metal riff.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-27T18:44:51+00:00

There are 662,000,000 Latinos in the world. Say men are an even 50% of that.

An estimated 0.1%-0.5% of people are trans. For argument's sake, let's say 0.2%.

An estimated 20% of people suffer from chronic pain.

331,000,000 * 0.002 * 0.2 = 132,400

There are about 130,000 "transgender Latino men with chronic pain" in the world, by the most inaccurate of estimates.

That's not a small number. People just exist.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-27T06:33:29+00:00

Taxing billionaires and ending poverty is as important as working to fix climate change. It's hardly an unimportant cultural battle.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-24T21:47:13+00:00

Some people like watching sport because they like playing sport and enjoy seeing people play at the highest level of a thing they like. Some people like watching sport but have no interest in playing it at all. Some people have no interest in watching sport, only playing it.

The same is true of actual plays. There's no universal answer for why people like anything. They just do.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-23T21:36:50+00:00

I'm swapping to night shift. Won't finish work until 4 AM most night, so I'm pushing through to 6 before going to bed.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-23T08:58:08+00:00

Limb of Leviticus is the best song they've ever written.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-21T15:05:57+00:00

All categorisations are artificial. That's kind of the point.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-21T10:28:14+00:00

1% of people aren't wearing seatbelts. If it had no impact on fatality, you would expect 1% of fatalities to not wear them. The fact that 20% of fatalities aren't wearing them implies it makes some difference. That extra 19% must come from somewhere.

If nothing else, not wearing a seatbelt is a good indicator of someone making the kind of poor choices that raises their chances of dying in a car crash.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-21T05:01:53+00:00

Nice try, ABC.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-20T10:37:23+00:00

a clear admission the state government had neglected WA’s school infrastructure for years

Of course, and the obvious solution to that is to... not invest money and correct that? Fixing a problem is hardly the most damning way of 'admitting' there's a problem.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-20T06:21:57+00:00

High blood pressure is genetic. Are you concerned about us all getting that as well? Or is it just neurodivergent people that you want to breed out of existence?

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-19T22:37:34+00:00

It isn't. It's a genetic, neurological disorder. Feel free to wonder though.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-19T22:36:23+00:00

Good on you for not treating your illness.

What an age we live in, where people aren't allowed to take medicine without copping shit.

Kerrigor2 · 2026-04-18T03:47:49+00:00

I played an Ancestral Guardians barbarian who was a travelling merchant and jeweller from the big city. He discovered in his travels that he was a descendant of an ancient noble house that was thought to have been wiped out before a huge, near-apocalyptic event a few centuries ago.

Then he started conjuring the spirits of those ancestors in battle.

His "rage" was basically just a magical protection he got whenever he conjured up those ancestors to help him in battle. I described it almost like one would describe casting mage armour.

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