I think it teeters on fetishization here mainly because there are overwhelmingly more lesbians than gays- that being said, I also don't really care. Do as you will and all that. I'll also note that literally every single VOIP I've been in for a server, there's at least one or two women talking and a few more who either don't have a mic or don't want to talk. Ratio wise that's WAY higher than I'm used to seeing in almost any other place I hang out, sans one.The GrumpyCat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:21 pmYeah, thanks ADDK for that post. It's really facinating and something that has made me think too.
I worry about this too, and I think it brings up a really intresting question...I felt embarrassed at making a homosexual character on this server once I realized how much of a meme it is here, because I felt like I was now contributing to the problem.
On the one hand I think it's very good to have a vareity of characters of all races/sexualities/so on, firstly because it creates a larger vareity of interesting stories and themes. But also because yes, soppy SJW I am, I like to think it encourages a larger acceptence in society.
On the other there is a risk of... let us say... presenting these types poorly? Fetishising, sterotyping, or just being disrespectful.
I can't really speak much from an LGBT perspective, or a ethnicity one, but from a gender perspective it does make me wince when some men play women as little more than giggling, sexualized airheads.
Then again I remember that there's also a lot of female characters (I daresay nowadays the majority), played by men, who are played really really well.
We talked about this on another thread as I recall, and my own personal opinion hasn't changed. That ultimatly it's... just what it is. That we can't... or rather we shouldn't 'ban' people from playing such concepts, because even if they're done badly at least they're being done - and that is nice. And also because it'd be difficult to enforce and, lets face it, an entire server made out of nothing but streight white male guys would be really dull.
I suppose all we can do is ask players to be mindful when doing such things, to do their best, and to try and be tolerent and gentle when we see it being done badly. I think.
But then there's the thousandfold secret formed in the dark magics of the ancient world - the server has tons of women playing men!!!