Reminds me of a thing that I learnt a few years ago: There is no such thing as an average person. As soon as you look at more than a handful of statistics, noone is within 1 sd of the mean in all of them. The US air force found this out when trying to design a cockpit for the average person, and then found that noone could use it effectively. That's why you should always design for the extremes, and then the design is better for everyone (see curb cut effect).
Yeah it's so ableist to imply that any deviation from the ""default"" is somehow less privileged to consideration, like that's a good and natural thing.
It's also fascist imo: like you can leave the others, the exceptions, the odds, the weak, etc, all behind because well of course it's natural to only consider your platonic standard virtual person thing and discard anyone who can't fit into that mold
I remember that. It was a thing in that people said it and appeared to believe it. It was not a thing in that Harry Potter was not ever at any point in history the "only role model" for boys.
Absolutely not. I recall Chuck Palahniuk saying there weren't enough male role models for the average guy once and thought he was full of shit, too.
I grew up idolizing male role models because there weren't enough strong women in popular media. Then 28 Days Later came out and I was like... holy fuck - a woman with a machete who does not fuck around. It opened my eyes to more kick ass women in history and media.
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Reminds me of a thing that I learnt a few years ago: There is no such thing as an average person. As soon as you look at more than a handful of statistics, noone is within 1 sd of the mean in all of them. The US air force found this out when trying to design a cockpit for the average person, and then found that noone could use it effectively. That's why you should always design for the extremes, and then the design is better for everyone (see curb cut effect).
The average human is a Chinese guy named Mohammed Wang
The average married couple is Mohammed Wang and his wife Mary Li.
With slightly less than 1 testicle
I think this says a lot about how non white people are literally whitewashed out of the world. white isn't average it's just dominant
And it's not even genetically dominant! 😉
The average human also has more than 206 bones
And less than two legs and two arms...
Depends, are there more fetuses/feti/fetodes/fitice than people who lack one or more limbs?
And that number fluctuates, like right now I have chicken wings in the freezer.
Thank you for reminding me to take my bones out of the freezer. I like you!
Y- ... Your own bones?
Yeah it's so ableist to imply that any deviation from the ""default"" is somehow less privileged to consideration, like that's a good and natural thing.
It's also fascist imo: like you can leave the others, the exceptions, the odds, the weak, etc, all behind because well of course it's natural to only consider your platonic standard virtual person thing and discard anyone who can't fit into that mold
Isn't that kind of the point of everything everywhere all at once?
Suggestion : Draw characteristics of your characters randomly, weighted by how common they actually are in our world.
I remember when people were decrying the fact "The only role model our boys have is harry potter!" Because everything else was too female or foreign
I don't remember that. When was it a thing?
I remember that. It was a thing in that people said it and appeared to believe it. It was not a thing in that Harry Potter was not ever at any point in history the "only role model" for boys.
Absolutely not. I recall Chuck Palahniuk saying there weren't enough male role models for the average guy once and thought he was full of shit, too.
I grew up idolizing male role models because there weren't enough strong women in popular media. Then 28 Days Later came out and I was like... holy fuck - a woman with a machete who does not fuck around. It opened my eyes to more kick ass women in history and media.
Turn of the century. I'm old 'n shit.
Tell me you have never consumed any form of Chinese media without telling me.
Did you see the rules for this community?
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