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The Impossible World of Total Sensitivity

Basically. The problem with world building is that as a writer you're going to have to write about uncomfortable things. Not everyone believes in equality, you have to write on different characters that are quite different from you. You literally can't write on a world that doesn't offend anyone because life is messy.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Its one of the problems for the proto-novel I'm trying to write. Another issue is trying to write a in a fantasy setting which is an allegory but not a polemic one. 🙆‍♂️
SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP
@Burnley123 Well I think that's awesome and I hope you write it. The issue is that like life, not everything is fair because not everyone has the same background. I think society has to find a good balance but also be somewhat realistic on the other hand as well.

If you're writing on the 15th century, I mean they weren't exactly friendly to LGBT people for instance. It would be nice to make stories about LGBT main characters within that time period but it's also not realistic to write about rainbow like plot outcomes to a time that wasn't friendly at all unless you're doing some type of alternative time line to history which could be realistic than trying to write historical fiction.

But I also don't think that the types of people who "want" more sensitivity in books really understand that. I mean I don't want to say they don't understand but I don't think they fully grasp how total fairness to everyone is an impossibility for the fact that life is sometimes not fair.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SatanBurger I think (though this is arbitrary) that the point is to take it seriously but not super seriously.

 
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