It’s almost as though we don’t represent things in media to exact statistical amounts
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Stop thinking about it Like that and just think of it as just another couple. Why do you have to make it weird?
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We dont, which is why this:
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It’s wonderful that you have never been discriminated against.
Sadly this is not the reality for so many others.
You mentioned anti-discrimination laws in Europe. Did you know that in Poland, an EU member, 100 towns have declared themselves LGBT-free zones and LGBT people are being actively persecuted?
In Australia, my own experience is that my parents, brother and extended family cut me off for the sole reason that I am a man who has married a man. I’m not saying this to elicit your sympathy, but rather to illustrate that other people make choices about LGBT people that greatly impact their life, and this is something that we have no control over.
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Here’s the thing. I don’t care about the couple at all and that’s all they are to me. However I’m smart enough to read between the lines and why this was done. People precisely like you who are probably giddily clapping their hands screaming “OH MY GOD BLIZZARD IS SO TOLERANT! THEY’RE SUCH A GOOD COMPANY!”
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Well, of course Blizzard benefits from looking more inclusive, even if it’s for greedy reasons. I don’t feel that changes anything.
It is a good first step i am just trying to look the positive in this.
My Flying Spaghetti monster religion doesn’t get represented enough. I demand more representation!!!
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I don’t, characters shouldn’t be what they are because they are gay. They should just be characters that happen to be gay.
At what point will blizzard get desperate and start using stereotypes that make the own movement look bad?
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If you read the interview the game developers gave on techradar, you will see that this is part of a move towards inclusivity as a whole, as were the racial diversity changes in character customisation. They want the game world to reflect the diversity of the real world. In my view this moves beyond tokenism.
Doing good for self serving purpose isn’t doing good and not only devalues the idea of inclusiveness, it makes an absolute mockery of the idea. As a trans person I wouldn’t care if a trans character happened to exist. However if it was literally tossed in as a token like “Here’s the token trans character, aren’t we so great?!” I would be absolutely livid at the insult.
Odds are you’re probably one of the people who defends their cashgrab microtransaction pets for charity because “IT’S FOR CHARITY! THEY’RE SO THOUGHTFUL!” when it’s literally a tax write off scheme for them and they don’t care.
Doing good things has the prerequisite it isn’t self serving. This is simply duplicitous self serving. There’s no meaning to it past “Hey guys we’re tolerant lmao.” Their action is so shallow I couldn’t even drown in it.
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You’re welcome.
It was all thanks to me, after all.
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Imagine if black humans started in some traditional African garb.
Three threads on this matter Blizzard needs one server just to stop this nonsense.
Reading the interview they gave, they explain that many members of the creative team were LGBT and so wanted their stories to be represented. I think this goes beyond tokenism.
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Ah yes, because this was something they clearly were interested in making a selling point when the game was going well and doing something like this was risky. Convenient they care when it’s the exact same move EVERYONE ELSE is doing because it’s the hip thing to be.
Game begins to fall apart and now their Hail Mary play to “Win back the community” and suddenly they magically care about inclusivity. Yawn, I’ve seen this grift before.
So what are they suppose to do? Completely avoid the subject and keep it taboo so as to not look like they are trying to pretend they are good?
Honestly maybe I am just ranting, but it seems to me, almost every time there is any kind of diversity, people accuse them of pandering.
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I think there’s reason to have some skepticism. But in my view, it’s better late than never.
This just sounds like an entirely different fetish.
I didn’t realize all these people sat in on Blizzard’s dev meetings and witnessed the Gays holding them at gunpoint until they wrote in more than the checks notes two LGBT characters that were in WoW prior to Shadowlands. That’s the thing with these posts. “Shoving it down my throat”, “pandering”, and “tokenism” are simply buzzwords slung around by those who cannot accept LGBT people existing in their fantasy universe. Considering homophobia is not canon to WoW, it also makes sense that there’d be way more out LGBT people. It’s so wild to me, esp when there’s plenty of straights to pull from. Sorry thrall x aggra sucks i guess
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