| Majora said: I’m gay and I completely agree with you. I’m also for gay marriage and against the eradication of the nuclear family. I am in favour of every person being granted equality under the law and I am against the notion that a persons personal identity, whether based on immutable characteristics or individual feelings/perceptions, should be considered the most important aspect of that person. I also take issue with the alphabet brigade acting like they speak for all gay people; I am a gay man, but I’m also many other things, and if LGBTQ+ is in fact a community then I can surely choose not to be a part of said community and am really sick of being associated with it. I share little in common with that community other than a sexual orientation, and even then, it now no longer covers only sexual orientation (also covering gender identity and things like queer where you can be opposite sex attracted and still call yourself queer) and I just want to get on with life as a multidimensional human being. Side note - I really enjoyed romancing Dorian in DAI because he was a fantastically written character and yeah, as a gay guy who’s romantic, I enjoyed that a lot. But I could also relate to Geralt and Yennefer’s romance because I’m also a human being and guess what? Love is love. |
I was raised by my mother to see everyone as equals, and to not wish for any group to be segregated. What this DEI shit is doing is the complete opposite. When you start barring certain walks of colour from being able to apply for a job or a voice acting role, that's not equality, that's equity and that's just bad. Same goes for hiring people only based on their religion or their gender, that again isn't equality, that's just picking and choosing based on check-marking selection bias.
For years I have considered myself a part of that community, but in the past 5-6 years I've been feeling more estranged by the day, simply because I'm not fully alt leaning, and I disagree with that mob mentality, because it's not even trying to foster equality, but another kind of hatred, and that's not what LGBT is about, it's about loving one another, being accepting, not being selective, using movements as weapons to silence others.
I've personally been called the F word multiple times, but I don't let that hurt me, because I don't see there being anything wrong with me liking guys and gals. I have noticed over time that people have been hijacking the Trans movement to try making "femboy" a slur, when it's not, it's literally how I appear as (I inherited my mother's hips and slimline legs and cushy butt, with a youthful look, that's just how I am). The fact some ppl use that movement to try turning femboys into "oh they're coming out as Trans" scenarios is what disgusts me, because there are some Bi and gay guys that like being a femboy and there's fuck all wrong with that.
When you have people assuming there is no hijacking, no nasty shit going on behind the scenes, I just think "wow, they're either defending the bad actors in bad faith, or they just don't care to look around and notice the signs). Hell, one of the original founders of LGBT doesn't like how what he originally founded for love and acceptance, has instead been hijacked and made all about certain parts of the LGBT, not everyone, and I totally understand him on that.
Despite not having played all the DA games, I have seen some of the romance options in the previous games and can agree. I also liked back then you strictly had characters that were gay, and couldn't be outright romanced by someone non gay. Now with the new game it's just "everyone's gonna bang one another because everyone's pan now"?.
Also thank you again for saying this. I feel it needs to be said, because me and my partner have been feeling that way for some time now (not feeling like we're included in the group). I'm glad we're not the only ones who feel that vibe.
pokoko said:
Very well said. As I've stated repeatedly, a significant amount of the backlash isn't about the existence of diverse characters, it's about self-righteous writers and developers who feel the need to "educate" the consumers that they look down on by hammering them over the head with ham-fisted, over-the-top sermons and scenarios that feel artificial and contrived. They would go full Clockwork Orange if they could get away with it. People simply don't like being preached at, especially not when any and all criticism is framed as prejudice. All that accomplishes is to breed anger and resentment, which makes everything worse. If they just treat diverse characters as NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS with just as many flaws as everyone else then the majority of the audience would accept them without issue. |
See Pem?, it's not so hard to understand. Poko gets it, I get it, others in here get it.
Like Poko said, we don't fucking need to be sat down like a toddler and educated on how to interact/treat other walks of life, most of us know this. It's insulting and degrading the way that we've gone from having games that featured black characters, gay characters, flamboyant ones, ones that were accepted before in the past, to a point now where the game has to only market those points as if they are the main game, when they were already accepted years ago.
I'm seeing black folk speak out against the same shit, the same crap that gets peddled to them, and even they don't like it, because it's DEGRADING (especially when it's a White writer who barely knows fuck all, and just assumes every Black person has the same fucking haircut or talks in the same manner).
| pokoko said:
If they just treat diverse characters as NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS with just as many flaws as everyone else then the majority of the audience would accept them without issue. |
The people I know, be they black, Trans or Gay, they just want to be treated like normal human beings, not treated as some separate special group or propped up like some gimmick marketing ploy (which is what we're seeing a lot of these days and folks are getting sick of it).
Diversity is something that needs to naturally/organically progress, not be forced, because that almost always gets met with backlash/kickback.
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