Subject: I mean, one could still look at all the agents and poll them. Not at a glance, though, of course.
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Posted on: 2024-02-19 00:13:11 UTC

Hmm. Frankly, I am not a fan of specifically singling out individuals by inalienable characteristics in media, because I just.. don't think it really adds a significant amount of value to the character and derails more important points of story in order to pursue identitarian box-ticking. Personally, I don't think it's really necessary, and choosing to highlight only certain characteristics does imply that one values those characteristics, especially given that in our setting can easily have with characters any imaginable quality.

That said, I suspect most others won't necessarily agree with me here, given that this amounts to a political opinion, and I'm getting a bit off-topic from wiki categories, which is the main point anyway.

As far as adding more categories... why limit ourselves to only historically underrepresented identities? We can add categories for nonhuman agents (with subcategories for dragons, or elves), include more specifics than just "of color" (maybe a category for Asian agents? Middle Eastern agents?), or have one for, say, Welsh agents. If we're organizing characters by identity, might as well go for as many as possible, in my opinion. Frankly, I'd be perfectly happy with something like that.

--Ls

PS. I would be interested in looking through the agents category to see what they tally up to.

PPS. I can help with the Inactive category.

(I had to keep editing this because I messed up the strikethrough code. *facepalm* )

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