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The game was designed with diversity in mind with characters of different ethnicities and sexualities. I don't get why celebrating diversity and sexuality is something political and offensive to other people?
- 5 years ago
@PiabeticIt's not about being offensive or not, but just imagine, making a character gay or straight, does it really make any difference at all? No, well at least not to me, who the character likes to sleep with doesn't affect my gameplay at all. So instead of making a game where 17 legends are all straight, or white, or really anything at all, just making them all the same is not really something realistic at all. So instead of making all characters straight for example, they just make some characters from the LGBT community, because after all, is more realistic than in a group of 17 people there is at least non-straight person. Not showing diversity just gives society the image of LGBT people as non-existant, and is mainly the reasons of discrimination. I hope I made you see my point and make you understand the need to show diversity in all forms, not only on games, but also movies, tv shows, etc
And idk, as LGBT I like to have representation somewhere, as really most people on videogames are just straight dudes, this game has all kind of diversities for people to actually feel represented.- aisthebestletter5 years agoSeasoned Ace@MrCarri-X It does. Go actually learn about an idea called "equal status". Being represented and acknowledged is a HUGE way to make people feel accepted + equal and also reduces prejudice. It always makes me laugh that the only people who seem to have any problems with this stuff are straight white males who have been represented in everything forever.
- reconzero4 years agoSeasoned Ace@Piabetic
I'm not saying that "the politicization of everything" is a good thing. But:
Thankfully (or not depending on your pov) Apex is not a public space - it's a privately owned space which the public is free to use within a few basic decency guidelines. And the owners continue to demonstrate that they value diversity and openness. Is the table really so small that we can't pull in a few extra chairs for groups which, let's not forget, have historically been marginalized? If you need me to spell it out for you: "marginalized" is a euphemism for disenfranchised, disinherited, disowned, fired, censured, jailed, humiliated, beaten, and murdered. I'm not saying that all of that happened to every member of the minority, but much of it happened to a lot of them. You could look it up. If a badge in a video game goes even some small way to making the future look a little less like the past then all of us are better off for it. Not something on which I personally want to "remain neutral." And I'm pleased that Respawn doesn't either.- 4 years ago@reconzero Well explained man. If only I can give more than 1 XP. Though I’m not part of the LGBT community, I have friends and patients that are part of this minority and experience unnecessary and undeserving consequences just because of their gender.
I still don’t get why the Western world views this LGBT issue as a political issue?- Kyldenar4 years agoSeasoned Ace@Cheese9Man >> I still don’t get why the Western world views this LGBT issue as a political issue? >>
The answer lies in the fact that fundamentalist Christian churches (full of people that are in actuality very poor Christians) are allowed to spew politics from the pulpit and retain their tax exempt status.
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