The problem with “shoehorned diversity” is that… there’s no “reason” for minorities to exist in real life, they just are. So if a character happens to be anything other than a white cishet man, is that shoehorned in, or a reflection of reality?
The truth is that shows are far less diverse by default than they should be. I don’t exactly know what diversity it is you are talking about in she-hulk, as I couldn’t find any exceptional amounts of it, but according to Gallup, 19.7% of Gen Z identify with an LGBT label, which means in a show that has 10 gen Z characters, two of them “should” be queer, with one of them being bisexual as bisexual people are 13.1% of Gen Z. But it’s rare you even see a queer person in media at all.
The problem with “shoehorned diversity” is that… there’s no “reason” for minorities to exist in real life, they just are. So if a character happens to be anything other than a white cishet man, is that shoehorned in, or a reflection of reality?
The truth is that shows are far less diverse by default than they should be. I don’t exactly know what diversity it is you are talking about in she-hulk, as I couldn’t find any exceptional amounts of it, but according to Gallup, 19.7% of Gen Z identify with an LGBT label, which means in a show that has 10 gen Z characters, two of them “should” be queer, with one of them being bisexual as bisexual people are 13.1% of Gen Z. But it’s rare you even see a queer person in media at all.