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No, read the description. It can be any combination of minority groups. Being biracial would be just one example, when combined with another.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K. Dick
The Master Of Fright & A Demon Of Light
How the hell is it "unrealistic" for a POC to be disabled or LGBTQA+ or a woman? Or any other configuration of those?
This trope is just straight-up insane. Seems to exist just to whine about women and minorities.
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The description doesn't say it is unrealistic.
Most examples are hardly whining-they just note fictional characters who fit. If you see an issue though, Trope Repair Shop is available.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K. Dick
I'm pretty new here, is it alright if I white out any zero context examples(not delete them.)
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Yes.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K. Dick
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: clarify defintion
, started by FlyingV on Jan 20th 2011 at 3:31:39 AM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Not Tropeworthy, started by TheMountainKing on May 19th 2018 at 7:39:23 AM
Not Literally Me
This trope is far too broad in its application. Under the current standards, literally any character who is a non-white woman (among many other examples) counts as this trope. Surely this is too broad to have any meaning? It's a description for 'Twofer Minority' (which, I would argue, is not a meaningful trope) and completely ignores the 'Token' aspect of the title.
A better would be to restrict this trope only to instances of Token Minority characters who fit multiple classes of minority, or instances where their status as such is lampshaded.
I also think the use of 'Twofer Token Minority' so broadly has some pretty weird implications, since it implies that any character who is (for example) both black and disabled is reducible to those traits and could exist only for the purposes of tokenism, as if any more than one deviation away from white-heterosexual-able-bodied-male is abnormal and can't just exist without comment.
"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
High School Musical: How is a female a minority? About 50% of mankind is female. Quite even, if you ask me.
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This trope considers female a minority. From the description: "Of course, women are not actually a minority in terms of numbers, but count as such in media because of the long history of their being marginalized."
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So is this just a collection of nonwhite males heterosexuals now? Wasn't it originally for someone who was both a twofer and the only such person in the cast, such as in a situation where it's an all straight, white cast with one paraplegic Black Hispanic Jewish Lesbian with Tourette's to check all the demographic boxes and make the story artificially diverse? In many cases, such as the House entry, the story gets listed despite having several twofers and a half-minority cast.
One that really sticks out is the first entry under Real Life:
- The members of freak folk duo Cocorosie definitely qualify as French Jewish lesbians, making them threefers.
If both members of Coco Rosie are French-Metis Jewish lesbians, they're 100% of the "cast." They don't really stand out against an all Straight/White/Male "crowd."
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Stuck here for better sourcing:
- This troper cannot remember the name of the show, because it was a while ago (90s I think), only that an African-American comedian starred in it. Anyway, the episode had a threefer token minority and is lampshaded as such: "You're a woman, a minority, and you're gay? Girl, you get a leg brace and no one could ever fire you."
This trope seems kinda... old-fashioned.