Whats gained is you make someone different than you feel included....denying happiness from other people just because you want to is wrong. I know that view is considered liberal but treating others how you would want to be treated is kind of the golden rule of humanity. Its not 'have their way in the industry' its just reality; some people have different ideas than you do, and that's ok. Imagine if the first human who learned to draw, or start a fire, or tried to come up with speech was just kicked out and left to die.....we'd still be in the trees picking ticks off one another. Granted picking a characters sexuality is a far fetch from progressing mankind, but it's the same train of thought that let us get here.
Maybe someone's struggling with what they are going through and all they can relate to is a few pixels in a game. Why deny them that?
I'm not sure what country you're from...but conservatism in the states just tried to sacrifice thousands of real people so the rich can continue to get richer and because a good economy was the only positive in our president's reelection campaign. I hear what they are saying just like everyone else, but look how they vote, read what they are voting for and against. don't just trust karen from facebook or comrade mikael from russia. There's about to be a huge fight over voting by mail or online here...one side wants every citizen to have the ability to vote and vote easily, the other side wants to keep as many people from voting as possible. Which is right and why would they be afraid of letting people vote? It's not voter fraud, remember last election how they claimed so many illegal immigrants and dead people were voting and how they were launching investigations into each area the numbers didnt make sense to them? Zero voter fraud was found, just like every other investigation. It's lies to whip their base up for them to go vote....lies are another one of those golden rules of humanity things. They are wrong.
Let me be clear on one thing - a politician cares about votes, they seldom put their money where their mouth is and normally try to live as far away as possible from the issues they have had a hand in causing. If you judge an entire subset of the population by the politicians claiming to represent them, you are going to end up hating millions of people, that's a given.
As far as commitment to inclusion, do you think only LGBTQ people or those from ethnic/racial minority backgrounds are supposed to be included in entertainment? What about the deaf, the blind, the physically/mentally disabled, religious minorities, aborted fetuses, pets, communists, white nationalists, national socialists, black panthers, RTwP fans etc.? How do you accommodate all those people without offending anyone, coming off as cheap or mismanaging the budget? Maybe there's a totem pole I'm unaware of.
