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[MayImilae]

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Oh absolutely! It's kind of both ways really. Media reflects the culture and influences culture, and culture reflects media and influences media. Because, quite directly, media is just a part of culture. I certainly wasn't saying to focus entirely on media or anything, but, media is a lot easier to call out than nebulous bits of society. Like, with culture in general, it's hard to point at specific things, and without specifics its harder for people to understand and take seriously. But media is a part of our culture, it's widespread enough to influence culture and people are already aware of it, and they are limited experiences that is easy to point things out of. So we can point at the reflection of bad culture to call attention to the wider problems with society at large, and help change the people within that culture for the better!

And of course, it works both ways, so improving representation in media helps improve wider culture too. Using the feedback loop for good!

I certainly don't think MonolithSoft had any nefarious intentions. It reflects the culture it was made in ...but as a released product it is now culture itself so it is influencing culture at large for the worst. It's unfortunate.