I mean, I guess? Look, if I’m talking about how I love Mercy, I don’t necessarily think it’s okay to suddenly bring up LGBT rights. If it fits with the topic, I’m fine. But it shouldn’t be literally everywhere.
Of course we don’t have all our rights. But shoving it down people’s throats isn’t gonna get us anywhere.
What’s wrong with this? That’s like saying “tHeY tRy To FoRcE sTraIgHt PeOpLe iN gAmEs tO tIcK bOxEs.”
Sorry I don’t have the Overwatch website waiting for replies like some people
Wtf even is this anymore. Your attempts at insults keep failing miserably.
If people were just discussing how they can relate to a character because of said character’s sexuality, that’d be fine. But they’re not doing that. Instead they want even more representation.
They want this flag and that flag, they want this skin and that skin, they want this identity and that identity. See what I’m getting at? It’s basically a never-ending list of demands rather than discussing how they relate to a specific character.
“I’m not homophobic, I just don’t want to be reminded that gay people exist”.
It’s that sometimes, shows will have a character be gay before actually being, you know, a character. They have no personality. They have no backstory. They have no struggles. They are perfect, super feminine, and make it clear that they’re very gay.
This is the type of representation that is toxic. Hollywood and the likes put minorities into their films not for representation but to get extra brownie points from SJW’s.
Not all gay characters are this way. But they exist.
I’d rather have 1 complex and deep gay character than 100 shallow and underdeveloped gay characters for the sake of being gay. But putting gay characters into your show just because you want a gay character (without actually caring about them as a character) only deepens the divide between Gay and Straight folk. Making us look like a marketing tool instead of just normal people.
Never met “gay” people advocating so much for anti lgbt sentiment
It’s bizzzzzzarre. Zero empathy, zero awareness, zero understanding.
What is anti-lgbt sentiment to you and show me how I am promoting that?
The post above is pretty clear, no?
Provide one clear cut example of a gay character that is not a “character” as you put it
And?
Lots of different people out there really.
Unfortunately yes… and it’s a little depressing.
Damn them for asking for stuff for a game that might actually accommodate them?
People go on about Tracer and Emily as tokenism, but like, we’ve had the cute comics, we know Tracer has a cute girlfriend and she’s also this awesome hero that fights bad guys, people act like her entire character is being gay but it’s not, it’s just a part of her story.
That’s good enough for me, I’m happy just knowing there’s someone like me on the OW roster.
And that’s super important, just that small bit of representation means so much to me and others. I’m grateful for it, endlessly grateful.
Growing up there was no one like me in video games, and now there is. This small bit of representation has people up in arms and it’s depressing
So what’s the issue with this?
What’s the issue with this?
And?
You have zero proof of this, as you have no idea who this person is…
The stuff they want can’t be put into the game. It only works in the lore. Putting LGBTQ stuff in the game would lock Overwatch out of certain countries. They know this already, but they bombard the forums with their demands as if representation is more important to a business than money.
Representation in a multiplayer game is different from representation in a comic.
Not very prominent but still pretty egregious:
In the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, there are two elements of poor representation:
1: Two of the main characters were considered to be gay before the executives decided against it because it would be “too controversial.”
2: At the end of the last movie, two female pilots kiss each other in celebration. Not that bad, right? Well, they were edited out of the Chinese and certain European versions of the movie. They did it so they could still show the movie in those countries and make money without getting into controversy while appealing to the progressive American audience.
These are both times where characters’ sexuality weren’t decided by their story but by the money they would make. It’s disgusting.
You are either choosing to misunderstand my post or are blissfully ignorant.
Why can’t Overwatch be a pioneer in the gaming industry? Why can’t people want that?
I love Overwatch.
“The world could always use more heroes”
It’s a really good feeling when there’s someone like me in media
Straight and white people don’t know the feeling of never seeing anyone like you on TV, the feeling of begging for scraps of representation.
It’s not wrong to want that, and you arguing against it says tons about your character
Why is everyone that disagrees with you suddenly an awful person?
I didn’t say they were an awful person. Not once.
Please stop begging for attention from me, I’m done with you, gayfisher.
“It says tons about your character.”
Yeah, haha, okay.
That one stung. Like, ouch. That really hurt. I don’t think I can recover from that~