That's the impression the article from screenrant, the OP and your comments are sending out to me.
SCREENRANT:
"As the cast grew, players also became frustrated by the complete lack of playable black women, especially as more and more white women joined the roster. "
"Sigma represents not only a failure to represent mental health properly, but a missed opportunity to add more of Overwatch's touted diversity to the game. Adding another white man to the roster seems to betray its claims of diversity, especially when, with 31 heroes, Overwatch still has more anthropomorphic hamsters in its cast than it has black women. "
OP:
"I do 100% wonder why the hell we have yet to see a single black woman on that roster. The community has been very vocal about wanting a black woman to become a playable and well-rounded character since Day-1 and we continue to hear claims of "we listen to the community" and "we respect diversity" and all this crap. Since launch we've now seen 9 characters added to the game, 3 of which have been white women. Why? "
Your comment:
"It's so fucking weird, it is such an obvious omission that you would have to almost go out of your way not to address it. "
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Because in all cases it seems like Blizzard did wrong to not prioritize a black woman in comparison to other heroes which brought another kind of diversity into the mix.
SCREENRANT lumps all "white woman" together and is speaking about the betrayal of diversity claims because till now a "black woman" is not included.
But diversity and nuance is a bit more than that, isn't it?
I understand the wish for XYZ or the preference of a black woman but then I'm confused by elements in the statements which kinda dismiss other forms of diversity as if they are lesser.
I'm mentally not healthy and of course I can only speak for myself but I have no issue with the depiction.
For me it looks cartoonish and I don't think it propagates mental health issues in a negative way.
I also think that the framework Blizzard has with Overwatch to "represent mental health properly" (as SCREENRANT says) is fairly limited.
But what's the reason that you feel so negative about it?
Thanks for the correction, when the topic arised about his nationality I somewhere read Greek.
Actually my point is not to say that Overwatch is diverse enough and everyone should stop asking for a "black woman", I pretty much agree with the first half of your post, like asking for a "black woman" but also celebrating when other nationalities, ethnic groups or what not is included but the second half is like:
"I'm happy for you buuuut for a lot of people that's just another version of white".
For me that's a racist and dismissive standpoint.
Like what's your problem exactly, Symmetra is just another version of black for a lot of people, as is Sombra or Pharah, so you even got multiple black women already, so everything is fine right? (Like what the hell obviously)
Especially here many people speak about diversity, inclusion and to not lump together skin tones and cultural differences in a simple way.
So I would expect or appreciate it when that's not only done for a couple of certain people.
