Token white, straight men.

This is what we need.

It’s nearly 2018 and people are still mindblowingly bitching that certain demographics are being “pandered” to when included in fiction. When included as one character/plot line amongst a sea of the same white straight guys over and over. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with these guys personally, I have a problem with the disproportionate portrayal of them as a representation of our species as a whole.

So, maybe the solution to get a proper balance is a few years/decades/generations of the opposite. Because, despite what you have seen in fiction all your lives, white straight men are not the norm. They are not the default. They aren’t even fully relatable for well over 50% of the audience.

So how about they become the token? Imagine if you will, a world with mainstream books, movies and shows where in the entire cast there is just one straight white guy. Everyone else is part of a beautifully diverse and accurately portrayed group that better represents the rich tapestry of the human species. Of different races, cultures, sexualities, genders, abilities and any other variation that isn’t an able-bodied, cis, white straight guy (as almost every damn protagonist and friends).

Maybe after some time being the “token” character there might actually be some balance obtained? I mean, once the butthurt ones stop crying over no longer being pandered to?

I can dream.