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Just so I get this.
I can't write a story about three little blue creatures because I may offend all the red ones, yellow ones, and a green one with both sex organs?
Or if I'm telling the story of a caveman, I can't make him kill a hungry raptor because it's cruelty to animals?
I know there are people who think that every story have characters that look like the crew of a Star Trek show, but isn't it more unrealistic to have a bunch of streetwise rappers sitting in the back of an Alabama ice house full of tattooed bikers listening to opera music for the sake of not offending someone? Whatever story you're trying to tell in that setting is going to end badly (likely for whoever put on the opera music).
My English teacher says "Write what you know." I can read all about a Buddhist monk, but I don't think I know enough to make a character out of one.
Am I making any sense here or overthinking this?
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