We don't like when racial groups in fiction are oversimplified, agentless plot-advancers, or are displayed with tropes that miss their real experiences. It damages our relationship to those groups irl.
I wonder when we'll start to get similarly upset about the portrayal of kids.
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This seems more true in movies than in TV series. Stranger things come to mind. I think it's largely because they are in the sidelines, they are usually not protagonists, and they are not because protagonists either need to be physically powerful or have some degree of social
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status, which is generally acquired in the adult life. Stranger things focuses on the lives of kids, having then as protagonists and a result they don't come off as stereotyped.
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I fear it’s not too distant a future where we just can’t have movies or television because of all of this nonsense.
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Teenagers and, worse than everything, dads in sitcoms and children's cartoons.
