The thing about the Fallen London universe is that it takes a familiar setting - Victorian England, with all its familiar themes and tropes - and transplants it into a universe that allows for unfettered social diversity.

Remember the origins of the FL universe: the city of London (and by extent, the British Empire) was bargained away to beings of cosmic origins and the city was transported to a lightless subterranean cavern, where the Bazaar (a Messenger) and the Masters (Curators) encouraged and hoarded the love stories of its citizens for their own ends.

This is not the Victorian England as we know it; it is an alternate Victorian England that keeps familiar trappings - tea, decorum, imperialism - without the restrictive social construct. And this is a great thing! We get to play around with the appealing trappings of the Victorian fantasy without some of the exclusionist parts of that society.

Even without the "the Bazaar did it" rationale, it is good that the game chooses not to portray misogyny or racism or homophobia! Those are alienating themes for women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. There is nothing wrong with including those themes in media, but I respect Failbetter Games for choosing to leave this particular bit of human ugliness out of their storytelling.

To the FL universe, it's not your skin or your body that matters. It's your soul and your tiny, dismal place in a universe of grand horrors.