I’m 12 years old, at a friend’s house for a sleepover. We’re laughing in her bunkbeds and doing hair on her lifesize Barbie hair model, and I am just coming to terms with the fact that I will never get the hang of French braids when her mom comes in.

We can and do bend the rules of reality to improve a user experience, and we have plenty of precedent for doing that. Removing the misogyny and racism from built-in dialogue is no different, and creators need to exercise that option.