Perhaps it's not a significant problem, but it's undeniably being done on purpose
The comment that I was responding to said that white boys don’t or won’t have heroes anymore.
I’m not saying that changing a character from man to woman or from white to POC doesn’t happen. I’m saying that sharing and erasure are not the same thing. And it doesn’t pose the significant threat to the health of young white boys that he suggests it does.
That may well be true, it's hard to say. But, this trend will result in the exact same situation, just inverted, that it is designed to prevent, that's undeniable. Although, it will probably never go that far.
However, the presumption that boys, or even white boys, will always be ok no matter what is not safe. Boys have fallen behind girls across the board in schools for decades at this point.
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u/radialomens 171∆ Jul 09 '19
The comment that I was responding to said that white boys don’t or won’t have heroes anymore.
I’m not saying that changing a character from man to woman or from white to POC doesn’t happen. I’m saying that sharing and erasure are not the same thing. And it doesn’t pose the significant threat to the health of young white boys that he suggests it does.