Lack of Male leaders in WoW

Well there’s a few big plot holes here….but they did kill off Saurfang. Must be that toxic masculinity type leader…and then tyrande kills off nathanos. And the last three xpacs have been about sylvie. So much freakin sylvie!! World of sylvanas craft. And they didn’t kill her off. But the main bad guy of the entire expac was a dude. The jailer.
I find it funny that blizz is trying to equal out the female representation in wow lore …meanwhile they can’t keep their employees from drinking and cubicle crawling and touching and harassing each other and idoliizing bill Cosby.

You go blizz!

Troll or MRM whiner. Cast your votes.

Neither, maybe overly concerned about something he has no control over.

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eKwAwLuTeE!!!

I’ve noticed the same imbalance, too and it needs to be evened out. It doesn’t bother me, but it is hard to not notice the imbalance. It’s the new “wemun gud boiz bad” crap that we see on tv, in music, etc.

Neither gender, person, race, etc should be over another if we all was equality. Making and pushing ideas that one is superior or should have more recognition is not equality but domination.

We are all equally important and capable. No need for the hidden messages, if that is what is happening.

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Except he didn’t say anything about an “SJW” agenda. So take your hot take an toss it in the trash can and try reading more than the title before your next post.

P.S. the six people that liked your post should take the same advice.

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yeah, we need more male leaders, like we need big buff hot sexy male orc to lead the horde

The main problem with this discussions is they are politically charged. Everyone will eventually end up arguing with strawmen propped up by either side and neither will ever reach an actual understanding of the other person. That’s why I NORMALLY avoid these conversations. I guess I am just feeling extra stupid today, though.

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We all end up having little dumb dumb moments. As a treat.

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As long as the next Horde leader doesn’t play Hot potato with the responsibility I don’t care who it is. And I’d support a big hot sexy dude orc any day

at least someone has taste here

It’s lazy as a cheap trick to create artificial investment in a character. How many superheroes have odd parent issues just to give you some low-investment character development up front so they can get to punch-fighting bad guys? Same deal. It becomes problematic when you do this to characters that have their own potential for dramatic storytelling, and it so happens that this is the fate of female characters infinitely more often than males.

The very fact that we’re having this conversation speaks to the strength and necessity of the term to discuss this very specific trend. But continue your bizarre crusade if need be.

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It’s not lazy or a cheap trick, it’s just basic story telling. People change when those they love die, it’s a massive motivator and widely acknowledged by everyone. So of course it’s going to be common in our fiction. Calling it lazy is ironically lazy critique.

You’re the one with the crusade, man. You are crusading against something you don’t even remotely understand beyond a surface level because someone told you to feel a certain way.

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So very true sadly. He does have a point it would be nice to see a BA warrior King like Varian again.

it is useless to talk about this though, i do know your post is a troll, but blizzard couldn’t care less if we wanted male leaders or not, but it is still fun to troll about it though, it’s fun to make people mad after all, especially people on the WoW forums

Well all they have to do is stop exclusion. Take lead roles for example. Half the people in the world are women so if you randomly select stories half the time they will have a woman as the lead character.

In the past most women in “leading roles” were in a story that was mainly about the male lead. For example, as the saying goes, everyone always talked about what a great dancer Fred Astaire was in his movies but no one mentioned that Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards and in high heals.

It’s extremely disingenuous to call my post a troll when I’m responding to people and participating. Calling an argument or point of view “trolling” without providing any details of your own, is actually the real trolling.

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I’m incapable of looking up to someone
/whisper
Im very tall

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I don’t know what you mean by lead roles. Do you just mean main characters in a story or do you mean literal leaders of factions?

I don’t watch or like dancing movies, but I am aware of the saying. Although I think the saying might be insulting to the Fred Astaire. I don’t see why people have to diminish someone else’s glory to raise someone else.

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It’s definitely true. I recognize the old Warcraft story did not support enough female leaders. But Blizzard’s solution has taken the replacement strategy instead of introduction strategy.

I would love it to be around 50:50 in the future. But its not looking like that will be happening.

Video game NPC leaders are characters in a story so I guess the answer is both.

As for Fred Astaire, it’s not an insult at all. He’s a man, he’s not expected to be able to dance backwards in high heals.