That’s the thing about negative energy, about hatred. It can be positive. It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about. Sometimes you can only define yourself by what you hate. Hatred becomes an inspiration; it makes you think, “What I’m doing now I totally believe in, and I don’t care what other people say.” Guided by hatred, you don’t have to follow the herd.
Take, for instance, the sudden trend of favoring female writers – one would think that a demographic that more or less makes up half of earth’s population would have a broad range of experiences, emotions, and ways of expressing an idea through the lens of femininity, but no, all of these broads have the exact same cookie-cutter mindset that serves to perpetuate misogyny by making women seem like insufferable outrage-mongers. The problem is not that all women are like this, but that the Powers That Be™ only employs women who outwardly think along these lines. It has been this way for women forever – that's why the Brontë sisters and Louisa May Alcott had to write under male pseudonyms, and why rabid Rick and Morty fans cried foul when a surge of female writers were hired onto their precious show. It's not that women can't write interesting and engaging stories, it's that the media doesn't want to hear that kind of thing come from the fairer sex.
This is the case with a lot of ethnic minorities as well, it seems, particularly in the history of popular literature. Hispanic/Latino writers are regulated to “life in the barrio” stories, with the barely-literate ramblings of Sandra Cisneros being seen as “profound” by benign bigots that are surprised that someone of a lower social class could string a couple of English words together. The only Hispanics in the media that I ever came close to being able to identify with growing up were in Dragon Tales and the works of Jhonen Vasquez. I’ve never read a book by an African-American author that didn’t include father/daughter incest, but am I really to assume that this is the standard when the prevailing stereotype is that black fathers don’t stick around to assume responsibility past the pull-out stage? Asian-Americans of all nationalities are regulated to publishing “between two worlds” stories, with a heavy exception to anime and manga – likely because Western translaters can't tell the gender of the creators in question (thus we have wonderful stories like Junko Mizuno's Princess Mermaid and Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½, which would never have been greenlit in the United States had they been conceived by a western woman). It's as though no demographic is allowed their own personal experience if it goes against the narrative that the media has set for that particular stereotype.
That said, it seems like it would be easy to cry a claim of institutionalized prejudice against a lighter-skinned enemy, but that would only further the divide – and more to the point, the other side (whatever that is) is probably just as responsible for the state of affairs. Say what you will about white supremacists, but in my experience, nobody clings to the “one-drop” blood ideology like an ethnic minority watching a half-breed find success. Take actress Halle Berry, for instance – she grew up being called names like “Oreo” and was estranged from her African-American father, but no one today would dare to call her less than black. Same thing with Mariah Carey, Frida Khalo, Meghan Markle…the only time a mixed-race person is ever considered “white” by the mainstream is when they go on a killing spree. And since I opted to become a content creator in lieu of committing domestic terrorism, I guess that qualifies me as a proud Latina who knows what she’s talking about in this department.
The moral of this story (if there needs to be one) is that one ought to be skeptical of any grander-scale advice on creativity, especially when it runs contrary to one’s given experience out in the real world. Most people in a position of power want to suppress the plebeians out of self-preservation, because nobody wants to deal with the harsh reality that there isn’t enough free real estate for everyone to have their own private Idaho. If everyone is at the top – and accustomed to the lifestyle implied by such – then no one will be at the bottom to serve them, but that’s a discussion for a different day. So the next time somebody gives some clichéd creative advice, ask them to back up their reasoning – if they can’t, they are probably just blowing hot air and should be ignored. Just in case, everything I just said should be taken with a grain of salt as well.