Feo Takahari
Auror
I'll repeat myself. It's about signal to noise ratio. Do you expect to bust everyones chops if they don't balance their background characters? Should there be some one whose job it is to count how many female and male background characters there are in every book and every tv show and every film? And if it's not balanced enough, shame on them? Where does it end? Do we start counting guys and gals in the Where's Waldo pictures? There's a point where it gets to be too much.
If you nitpick at every old thing, people will stop listening and the real important stuff gets lost in the noise.
Also when you set your parameters to only include vampires, to me that's a bit of a strawman. What if I set the parameters to witches in Buffy. If memory serves they're all female. Is that fair or equal? Why not a warlock or two? If I set my parameters right I can make the category support any argument I come up with.
I don't know about Saellys, but Chilari doesn't seem to be advocating criticizing anyone, just observing patterns. I think you're attempting to counter arguments she's not actually making.
(My own thoughts, if anyone cares: if you're going to be talking to or about a writer, look at that writer on an individual level, and observe everything they do. If you're going to be talking about a genre, look at everything that genre does. That includes minor characters as well as major characters. However, it's a judgment call which observations, if any, lead to criticism.)
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