tinyE: OH! There it is, the "sjw"! :P
Weren't we waiting for that. I mean, all the other right-wing imagined reality phrasal vomit is already here. "Political correctness", the "identity politics", the "special snowflake", the "attack helicopter", the "attack on free speech", the "word policing" and of course, the most stupid of it all, the "thought policing".
It was inevitable that it would all lead here, because for pages now a few assholes have been doing nothing besides dehumanizing certain minority groups.
Congratulations, this is exactly the atmosphere in which LootHunter
thrives. An utter warning sign that your forum is going to shit.
devoras: That is what a lot of sjws are trying to do, their ultimate aim. Be wary of attempts to subvert the idea of objective reality, truth, malign reason, to silence free speech and muddy science, to create racial and gender division/ conflict where there doesn't need to be any group conflict. I sensed an attempt with this game to subvert objective reality by not allowing us to choose our gender in reality, and only how our gender is referred to; I still think that was their aim, and I absolutely oppose that. It's hard to overstate the human catastrophe that would occur if the primary importance of reason and free individualism in society is lost to anti-realists and forced compliance collectivists.
And it started with you, all those pages ago. Which is really sad particularly as you have self-diagnosed rather effectively.
You've been trying, for many pages now, to push a false dichotomy on people,
contrary to science. You know well that it constituted trolling, and you have exhibited a certain malicious glee in reiterating the false dichotomy several times. You have, contary to the spirit of enlightenment and to reason, failed to listen and understand, although many laudable attempts at an explanation have been made. You have been actively creating division and a distorted reality.
Ask yourself why you did that, you've given the answer already. You need that false dichotomy like air to breathe. You're horrified by the idea that gender isn't binary. You're horrified by the idea that non-binary people actually have a fully formed and healthy self, an identity. You're horrified they're considered people.
In a narrative game, you're unable to relate to characters when their biological sex is not explicitly stated, even though you get to choose a pronoun and could continue to revel in something that is your fantasy anyway: that this means an explicitly stated biological sex.
All the neo-right-wing drivel that you're excreting will not hide that
your problem is a lack of literal empathy.
louitrilobite: This whole thing is rather personal to me, I'm the parent of a transgender child, she's now fifteen and it upsets me to read the ignorance here in this thread, not that I'll be losing sleep as I'm quite used to it now. I've lived with my child for fifteen years and watched her grow, always a few steps ahead of me with me catching up along the way.
It would take me paragraphs to try to explain our journey and my learning.
Gender dysphoria is a thing, get over it, in the same way people had to get over mixed marriages or gay people or what ever bigoted view they had.
But 'they'! in a game as an option in the beginning never to be seen again. If you are offended by that you are ignorant and sorry but bigoted. You can intellectualis it and go on about social constructs and blah blah blah and such, but ultimately if you are a decent person you must let people be what ever or who ever they want to be or are and commend anyone who helps them feel included, like by putting the option of 'they' as a pronoun.
Thank you. Thank you so much. And quoted for truth.
I'd love to read those paragraphs one day.