I hear people's arguments on this, I get what they're saying but I find it hard to totally get on board. I spent years trying to raise myself out of poverty working liquor stores, working underneath trailers in the middle of Michigan winters and I would've been pissed to find out that I missed an opportunity because I didn't fill a quota. Sorry, you're privileged, keep working those 10.5 hours shifts at the liquor store with a 15 minute break. This is how we get the idiots elected that we do. I know this won't be a popular thing to say and I'm sure people will think less of me for saying it. I don't know what the answer is for more inclusion but if it involves excluding others it will never quite sit right with me.
But that's exactly why people have "quotas," to force people that are hiring to look places they wouldn't normally. People miss way more opportunities because the people making hiring decisions don't investigate beyond the obvious candidates, meaning some combination of straight, white, male, conventionally attractive, and middle-class, because those are the markers our society associates with success and competence, and so the next generation of competent and successful people will be straight, white, male, attractive, and middle-class, and it'll be easy to look at that and say, "Well, I guess people who look like that are just naturally better at everything!" so they get the monied parents, the educational opportunities, the college admissions, the internships, the entry-level jobs, and the cycle just continues, with a perpetual underclass of people who are kept down unintentionally by the very fact that, in prior generations, they were kept down deliberately.
And there's also the fact that there are, in fact, people who are good at what they do who wouldn't have been considered without a quota. The lie people tell about affirmative action is that no disadvantaged person could ever outperform an advantaged person on a fair playing field, that, in this case, the best queer actor must be worse than the worst straight actor. The way you lose out on a job for not filling a quota is because someone who would've been hired before you would've been ruled out out-of-hand
without a quota.
Doing one's own stunts can be commendable, but it can be risky as all hell. And stunt doubles to exist to mitigate this issue.