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human
CMV: representation for the sake of representation in media is as bad as no representation.

Often times in modern media you will see TV shows/movies being celebrated for their diverse range of representation. Often times, this representation turns out to be a blank piece of paper being shoved into our faces to say "Look we got *whatever* representation in our show/movie, you proud?".

As an example, the one poc or LGBT character that acts as the best friend but has no personality or character development. 

Putting a hyper focus on the characters skin colour or sexuality just takes away from the fact that they are indeed just like everyone else and only serves to deter from any sort of message.

Often times woman are butchered as characters, all for them to be strong and empowered and 'feminist' without the character having earned their power. For example, the live action remake of Mulan. In this remake Mulan doesn't have a normal struggle, she just has power from the beginning and Is somehow less progressive than even the original poem.

By having bad representation, it only destroys any meaningful aspect that it could of gotten across.

That's all I got, I'm not to great at putting the words in my head to "paper" so I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense. Please, try to change my mind! I'd love to hear everyone's opinion!

*Edit* No longer responding, I have a large workload to get through and no longer have time.
gpt
What you're talking about isn't "representation for the sake of representation," its tokenizing, reducing, or stereotyping characters based on their race/gender (which, yes, is bad).

But we absolutely should have "representation for the sake of representation." What other reason is there, really? Women, POC, LGBTQ people all exist in the world, and their experiences are valid. Do they really need any justification to exist on screen as well?