Mary Sue

"if i write a woman character that's a "mary sue", "self insert" "girlboss" surely that's bad right? but what if the point and purpose of the work could be that she is used to facilitate the development and payoff of three other characters and her mary sueness and is a component neccesary to tell tha"

"There's a large contingent of media consumer that demands 'better representation' (whatever that means) for gay characters and nonwhite characters, and on the surface it seems reasonable, but for plenty of these people it just means they want those characters to be perfect and without flaws because "