: "Representation" is more subtle than you think. The claim is not "every novel should include a reprentative balanced sample of the current population", but more that "the sum total of fiction

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"Representation" is more subtle than you think. The claim is not "every novel should include a reprentative balanced sample of the current population", but more that "the sum total of fiction output should represent the breadth of human experience and not be unnaturally limited to certain demographics" and also "it is good if young people can find at least one fictional character that they can relate to".

Many movies are starting to introduce black and female characters and even chubby characters, even in situations were it doesn't make sense, because of the argument that the viewer needs to relate to the fictional/historical characters.

Conversely, does it make sense that every story or film contains only Hollywood-thin white guys with token young thin female love interests?

Carelessness about this kind of thing leads people to make strange ahistorical claims in order to maintain their viewpoint, e.g. "There were no famous female pirates" (false).

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