“Forced Diversity” Discourse in 2026
There’s a game I really love called Signalis; in fact, it’s one of my favorite games of all time. In it, you follow the odyssey of Elster, a synthetic android with feminine characteristics who is searching for her ship’s pilot, who disappeared after a crash.
Yes, there’s a lot of Yuri in this story, and the lesbian relationship between its protagonists is explicit. However, it’s also so many other things.
- It’s a story about loss.
- About the fall of totalitarian regimes.
- It talks about fascism.
- It has a strong critique of the culture of exploitation.
- It presents a universe full of detail and with a unique personality.
It’s a great sci-fi horror story about identity, about who we believe we are, and how far love and our ideals can take us.
And never, in my fucking life, could I see myself missing out on something this good just because the protagonists are lesbians. Or trans. Or gay. Or whatever.
I think it’s the stupidest thing in the universe. I don’t even care if this offends anyone, but… Complaining about supposed “forced diversity” genuinely strikes me as something people do when their intelligence is lacking certain, let’s call them, “qualities.”
I’ve never cared whether the movie I’m about to watch has actors of one identity or another, or of any particular sexual orientation. Nor do I care if the game I’m about to play has black characters. Or if the author of a literary work, a piece of music, etc. is LGBTQ+.
It’s like I’m walking down the street and suddenly hear a song that catches my attention, and the first thing I do to decide whether I like it or not is find out whether the person who wrote it fucks whoever I think is the right kind of person to fuck.
I’m much more interested in the creative process behind their work, what inspired them to make what they make, or what their ideals are. What kind of person they are and the quality of their work—now that matters. I will never give a shit about what gender they identify as or what they prefer in their private life.
And in all honesty, I don’t even believe “inclusion” is a thing; if anything, it’s visibility. Because yes, Karen, all those people have always existed, they’ve just had to hide from people like you.
I want to thank my girlfriend’s mom, who explicitly said that no matter how much she liked The Odyssey, she would never watch Nolan’s movie because he cast Black actors and Elliot Page as characters who supposedly “should” have had different characteristics.
For God’s sake…