⟳ Репост от Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD
poor characters are usually either jokes or tragic. rarely allowed to be seen as just regular people, a fact of everyday life. on cory carson, i kept trying to push for the construction worker family to be portrayed as more realistically low-income, but it was deemed "too heavy a subject matter"
Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhDif you look real close at culture you'll see that most creators come from middle to upper middle class backgrounds. the poor are written about A LOT. but don't get no chance to speak for ourselves. obviously this creates wonky misshapen caricatures.