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Good job being a pedant.

Thanks. As this topic is about tagging, I dare say it is all about pedantism. 

I mostly agree with this here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#Criticism

Especially this sentence:

Preserving "whiteness" as an intact category while lumping every other racial group into an indiscriminate category ("of color") replicates the marginalization that the term was intended to counter.

In my own words, racism is a thing to be abolished. But terms like that do not help, quite to the contrary. Oh, and I also do not approve of adding letters to lgbt for the same reasons.

do you know why the female-protagonist tag exists

Do you? Or did you assert your own theories  after the fact?

My take on this is as follows. The same reason why indie and rogue-like or pixel-art are tags. Because people figured, you can sell games with that kind of pitch.  To look special, to differ from perceived mainstream. (Tagging indie on itch is kinda overkill, but still  15k games tag it)

Because representation used to be a major problem in games.

It is not about representation. That is a problematic   mindset, be it for games, movies or whatever. You need representation in democratically elected  entities, not in  other things. Crying for representation elsewhere is forced diversity and  inherently flawed. By what standards would you apply representation?  Speaking of things like ethnicity for lack of a better word. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_ethnic_groups

There are more groups than cast members in any given movie/game. Representing is futile. And chosing whom to represent is a sure way of offending people. Either you do not represent them, so you offend them for not being represented. Or you represent too much of any group, so you get called racist. Or you go by diversity checklist  and get called woke. Or you try to represent group A by chosing one of group B and offending both by doing so.   But whatever you do, as soon as you chose by discriminatory attributes you are racist by defintion.

But back to female protagonist representation. Wich females would there be to represent? I play games for decades now and I do not have the impression that protagonists of the female persuasion are in any way underrepresented. One can complain that Link is the hero and Zelda is the princess, but if you have a scenario that losely has a questing knight, well, there were not really female knights in any significant number. Also, only games with fixed protagonist would qualify. Like Zak McKracken. But look further and you have the females in Maniac Mansion. Many games have fighters as protagonists and it is just unrealistic in many scenarios to have female fighters. It is easier with magic, contemporary or science fiction. Metroid is from 1986 and gave us Samus Aran.

As to why, well, males tend to want to impress females by doing stupid things (like going on a quest to slay the dragon). And such stupid things make a good story.  A woman setting out to kill the dragon to be allowed to marry the prince... I have doubts this would fly.

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In my own words, racism is a thing to be abolished. But terms like that do not help, quite to the contrary. Oh, and I also do not approve of adding letters to lgbt for the same reasons.

Here's the trick though: you don't get to decide what other people call themselves, or what helps with racism. People affected by it do. People who feel LGBTQIA+ describes them better? They know better. Listen to them.

On a similar note, you don't decide what counts as female representation in fiction, or what matters. Listen to those impacted by it.

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I appreciate your commentary, it seems easy for people who are prejudiced to justify being upset that those marginalized would want representation. It's really that this permeates nerd culture as a whole.

I try to form my opinions by cause and effect. How does    a term like "poc" helps with (sic) racism?  I think you meant, it helps against racism. Because, funnily, I do think, it does help with racism. ;-) (Actually, lets not discuss this here)

I like the moral of the episode of South Park were they want to change the city flag. I  want a world were the people are like the kids. They do not see race first, it    is just an attribute, like height or  eye color.  So when discussin the old flag, they saw people lynching a person, not white people hanging a black person, and subsequently discussed, if it is ok to show a lynching on a flag. The adults of course only saw an racist act and did not want to discuss it at all, for fear of backlash, not matter what they would decide.

People do not know better what describes them better. They feel better. There is a difference. One is factual, the other emotional. Also describing is something from the outside.  A 3 foot height person self describing as tall, does not make that person tall. (Pedantic at work here ;-)

Or whait, did you mean to say, people who are affected by something are to decide what do do about it? By what reasoning?  Because that sounds like making the fox guard the hen house. Or the mindset of : I am offended, therefore I am right. Or asking the victim of a crime to be the judge. That is not how our society works.

About female representation. Why should I care about those "impacted" by it. The people impacted by fiction are the readers. Not the people "not represented" in it. But as I said, asking/checking for representation is a problematic mindset. It is asking and making problems. For this  one, why should there be "representation" in the first place? How much? 50%? Why? Why not 1% or 75%? The things portraied in games do not have 50% equality, so why should games have it? Look at    games with soldiers as heroes. The ball park estimate is 10% of military personel is female. That does not say front line fighters and is a contempary number that was lots lower in the past. So did anyone check, if 10%  of games feature female fighers as heroes? And how do you count games, where you can select the gender of the hero?

And even if there were a misrepresentation of reality, that actually counts for nothing, as we are talking about fiction. And about stories. That means they are by definition out of the ordinary. If anything, I dare say, females are overrepresented in games, as it can make    a story and is interesting. Hence the tagging of female-protagonist.

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How does    a term like "poc" helps with (sic) racism?

You missed the part where it's not your business.

People do not know better what describes them better. They feel better. There is a difference.

No, there isn't. And either way, they know better. Because it's about themselves, not you.

Or whait, did you mean to say, people who are affected by something are to decide what do do about it? By what reasoning?

It's called self-determination. Look it up.

About female representation. Why should I care about those "impacted" by it.

Because they're people. I don't know how to tell you that you should care about other people.

Try basing your moral compass on something else than South Park. It poisons the mind.

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slef-determination? so its like yourself not giving up? because i know that determination means never give up

No, determination as in who determines your fate. Who decides for you.

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ok?

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If racism is to be abolished then why are you so offended that we want representation? And what created that need for it? Could it be racism that dictated who would and wouldn't be represented?

Can you specify how sufficient representation would  look like?  Because I know that term from slogans like no taxation without representation. And games and fiction as a whole is not a thing that warrants any kind of representation in the first place.  

You can even make stories about talking animals. Who was represented in those?  Whom did Pac-Man represent?

One makes a thing and people like it, or not. What good would it do, to be "represented" in games that no one plays? The most popular games are games where you can customize your character anyways, so the whole concept has a very slim application anyways. 

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Are you actually looking for me to tell you what representation looks like to me as a person who is marginalized? Or are you just looking to shout it down without having a discussion?