• Daisy (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Reminds me of a thing that I learnt a few years ago: There is no such thing as an average person. As soon as you look at more than a handful of statistics, noone is within 1 sd of the mean in all of them. The US air force found this out when trying to design a cockpit for the average person, and then found that noone could use it effectively. That’s why you should always design for the extremes, and then the design is better for everyone (see curb cut effect).

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    3 months ago

    Yeah it’s so ableist to imply that any deviation from the ““default”” is somehow less privileged to consideration, like that’s a good and natural thing.

    It’s also fascist imo: like you can leave the others, the exceptions, the odds, the weak, etc, all behind because well of course it’s natural to only consider your platonic standard virtual person thing and discard anyone who can’t fit into that mold

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    3 months ago

    Isn’t that kind of the point of everything everywhere all at once?

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    3 months ago

    Suggestion : Draw characteristics of your characters randomly, weighted by how common they actually are in our world.

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    3 months ago

    I remember when people were decrying the fact “The only role model our boys have is harry potter!” Because everything else was too female or foreign

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        3 months ago

        I remember that. It was a thing in that people said it and appeared to believe it. It was not a thing in that Harry Potter was not ever at any point in history the “only role model” for boys.

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          3 months ago

          Absolutely not. I recall Chuck Palahniuk saying there weren’t enough male role models for the average guy once and thought he was full of shit, too.

          I grew up idolizing male role models because there weren’t enough strong women in popular media. Then 28 Days Later came out and I was like… holy fuck - a woman with a machete who does not fuck around. It opened my eyes to more kick ass women in history and media.