Discussion SoYouWantTo / AvoidUnfortunateImplications

I was thinking that it would just be sorta... Cliche, because of how we just wick Pocahontas directly, like we're saying to copy it?

Would we lose anything by saying "have multiple tribe members express varying degrees of tolerance", or is that too generic? Then there's deciding what level of tolerance is more prominent for the tribe, if it ever gains a majority.

I added a bit about Acceptable Targets that relates to this.

My other concern is people who grasp at straws to find something offensive in any given work, like when Everything Is Racist, Everyone Is Satan in Hell and All Issues Are Political Issues comes into play. Also, certain catch 22s like some of the contradictions behind Real Women Don't Wear Dresses. I've heard that the Action Girl carries unfortunate implications because it tries to empower women by giving them more traditionally masculine characteristics, and of course making them otherwise falls into the trap of Stay in the Kitchen. So in essence writing a female character is a fine balance of making them not-too-feminine and not-too-masculine. This is of course has Unfortunate Implications in itself because it assigns gender roles to what really should be equal human characteristics.

Another one is something inherent to Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch where even if you try and make the cast diverse by having multiple varied characters of a certain minority. Someone will still center in one character with a trait that can be seen as acting stereotypical. For example, if you were to write a story that has multiple gay characters in it for whatever reason, and each character is fleshed out with individual traits, the one that maybe has sex once in the story can become All Gays are Promiscuous.

Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch in general can cause this sort of thing, maybe there needs to be a guide on how to write a trailer without Unfortuntate Implications, because I remember a couple times where people make judgements on characters before even seeing the movie proper. Ex: Frozen has ran into this recently if I remember right.