Once a writer said:
Gibbon tells us that in the arab book par excellence, the Quran, there are no camels; I believe that were it to be any doubt about the Quran’s authenticity, this absence of camels would suffice to prove it to be truly arab.
What’s implied is clear, you just don’t even find relatable the things that pertain to your quotidian world. Tales about magical castles imply that that age is past. The western amusement for what’s diverse only proves how at the very core that is a false expectation and something that is not true to the actual situation of things. Look how open we are, we have black people be protagonists only means that they are just not that open and that its made on a worse purpose.
Those who are left behind due to their skin color or race just won’t have an easier life because a fictional story gestated by those responsible of their sufferings somehow “represents them”.
The casting of Finn, if it happened as it’s said to have happened is a good example of true diversity: you have a character written and have no idea of what his skin color or race is supposed to be, and cast the best performance. Diversity in the film is in that case the natural byproduct of openness in the writing of the movie.
Not the same about deliberately having the male characters fail. Or pushing decissions before the casting.
Wanna make a truly diversity rooted film? Right. Write about characters and make unisex casts, and define on the casting, based on the actor/tress giving the best performance the gender and race of the character. Otherwise diversity my ass. It’s just design.