Talk:Keefe and Sophie/@comment-70.106.254.169-20191125025056/@comment-43305835-20191125045903

Yes, I totally agree. I HATE, I repeat  H A T E  when authors go out of their way to represent minorities, and suddenly, that becomes the point. It's not even written well, just meant to check off "representation" from a checklist. It's almost worse, though, when the character's identity revolves entirely around their race/sexuality/respective minority they are part of. Especially when it's one of those over-discussed minorities, if it makes sense. No personality, nothing! Just "my culture," this, "my language," that, "my race," this, BLAH BLAH BLAH. And! My race/culture is NEVER. REPRESENTED. Soooo, you're gonna go out of your way to try to represent everyone, even knowing that you CAN'T, you won't do it well, you'll just represent the same peoples over and over in all your books, and you'll do it all just for the sake of  R e P r E s E n T a T i O n ? ! ?  Not because you ACTUALLY CARE or want to portray the world ACCURATELY? No, I'd rather you just write good characters with great personality, even if they are white.

Yeah, sorry I got so worked up. Diversity is important, but it's rarely shown properly in books. This doesn't go for every author, though! Riordan does a really good job.