"But Annalee, plenty of people survived disease before germ theory!" Not while on epic quests they undertook with nothing but a fucking knapsack and a single water bottle, they fucking did not. Especially not while getting in swordfights and like walking off stab wounds.
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My point here is not "people of color may be historically inaccurate but so is toothpaste." My point is that our view of what is "historically accurate" is based on a completely made-up view of the past that conforms to culturally-ingrained aesthetic preferences.
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So if you can accept the fact that taste beats reality when it comes to hygiene and medicine, you can also accept the fact that your taste is not universal, and that editing out racial, gender, and sexual diversity is no more 'accurate' than leaving it in.
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Just to be clear because I'm getting responses about how racial, gender, and sexual minorities are not anachronistic: I know. I'm sayin our culturally-ingrained aesthetic preferences are racist and sexist, and edit history in the direction of upholding racism and sexism.
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The faulty appeal to authority here is saying it's "historically accurate" to depict an edited version of history that erases women of all races and people of color of all genders from the narrative. It's like basing your view of the Old West on Westworld.
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Eh, I don't see why they can't be multi-ethnic. Answer is obvious: the small village started out multi-ethnic, and they banded together to survive. And even after thousands of years, that doesn't mean all folks will end up looking all the same. Use your imagination a bit more.
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I love when people complain about realism in the fantasy genre coz LGBT+ness offends them, it's so cute when they get mad about it when statistically speaking there'd be quite a few in any given story ^_^
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The thing is, history wasn't as homogenous as we were taught to believe in the first place. White people think the past is entirely white, straight, and 80% male because that's what white, straight, male modern filmmakers have preferred.
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Especially since even where those modern film makers are attempting scrupulous accuracy, they're basing that from historical records largely written by white males in a white-male-dominated society.
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