>>116763993Except your diversity is terrible. It forces inclusion of people of various race, sex, and gender expression into roles arbitrarily and then exaggerates issues in inequality to justify doing so, causing more social division and feelings of isolation in readers and less unity towards society as a whole as people tribalize.
Let me invent an example. Imagine Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, has been put up next on the chopping block of diversity to be stuck on an allegorical bus and replaced by Dr. Stephanie Menstrua. Stephanie now talks less about the nature of magic in the Marvel Universe and more about long-obsolete feminist struggles, what spells she does cast are used for empowering girls from misogynist bullies, and the demons from hell are now straw-men for the patriarchy or abusive husbands or somesuch. The theme is clear, and at times even spelled out directly: "Men are corrupt, idiotic pigs who don't understand our struggle as women."
Now, imagine two possible readers to the Magic Menstrua comics, we'll call John and Janice. John has been reading comics for a few years now, and loved Stephen Strange, but was willing to give Menstrua a shot until she openly says that last line in the previous paragraph. John is 19 years old and has never so much as been in a position to abuse women in his entire life, let alone done so. He is completely average, has long since gotten the curriculum on the Civil Rights movement in his middle and high school twice over, and has no more intention to abuse or demean women than he does to jump off a cliff- and in spite of that, his favorite comic series, before his eyes, has just been turned into a blatant propaganda piece claiming that he and everyone like him, without qualifiers of any kind, are pigs. What do you think his reaction is?
