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by A_COMPUTER 4284 days ago
Sure, I can explain that. I'll even quote from the article, because I think it's true:

"Everyone brings their political agenda to the table when it comes to female characters in videogames; everyone complains if the women don’t match their particular vision. I start to wonder if the only way to win this game is not to have women at all."

You are acting like there is one standard of racism and sexism that all reasonable people agree to. As soon as you do anything risky, you find out how untrue that is. And as the quote alludes to, you could hurt the representation of (in that case) women by playing it too safe.

"Political correctness" is when the effort taken to avoid sexism and racism goes too far. And no, nobody agrees on that line either.