*Moderation Note: There are many obstacles to surpass in the journey to progress: unfair discrimination and it's many faces is an ever present one. But no other obstacle is bigger than hate. And hate even on the basis of a just cause can be as terrible as any other kind.
Lol at some people in this thread. Organic?
Let me try and unpack this word
SOME of you have latched unto as excuse for your narrow minded bigoted view of women.
Nothing happens organically in our society. Even god damn food does not grow organically anymore than animals raising themselves for slaughter, otherwise we will all starve to death waiting for food to grow. Well some of you will. We artificially grow foods, raise animals, cook, engineer seeds that withstand harsh conditions and resist pests.
If history has taught us anything, waiting for things to occur organically or happen naturally has never worked. The world we live in has been and is inherently sexist. Women didn't have the right to vote, they didn't
ORGANICALLY gain the right to vote, they fucking fought for it alongside some men. Other men fought against it as is evident by this contrived attempt by some of you to diminish the abilities of women being as capable as men, even some women fought against it, shocking i know. Some women around the world still suffer from oppressive patriarchal societies, like just fucking weeks ago there was news everywhere about the first woman being allowed to get a fucking drivers licence in Saudi Arabia.
Some of you need to be dragged kicking and screaming into accepting that inclusion, diversity and representation will increasingly become the norm because guess what? Companies have recognized that, that shit sells. Yes it is a positive thing but it also benefits these companies financially so of course they will do it. You as a consumer have the right to refuse to spend your money but guess what, there are many more people willing to spend their money for it. For every one of you who says i wont buy Battlefield because it dared to include women in an
INORGANIC UNREALISTIC fashion, there are many more women who are happy being represented in that game and are willing to pay for it.
Speaking of WW2, you think women didn't want to enlist to fight for their country? It was men who refused women the right to fight because they are supposedly biologically "inferior" to men. Those same women who were refused jobs in factories years before were the ones who had to join the work force to fill the roles that men left. And yes many women played key roles in the war. Other countries allowed women to physically engage in the war as well. Oh Ellie is taking down huge men unrealistically, umm no shit, its a video game. I would like to see some of you take down a huge man better yet i would like to see some of you take down a huge woman.
Unto TLOU Part 2 kiss that seems to grind some of your gears. That scene did not happen organically, that scene was conceived by a writer, those characters were modeled by people, the characters were brought to life by actors and animators, in short it was made by people, a diverse group of people. Some gay, straight, men, women, black, white, from different countries of origin. Nothing naturally happens in any piece of media and entertainment, Mario didn't organically occur and gain the ability to jump on goombas. I think the word you are looking for is that, that kiss made you
UNCOMFORTABLE because as a society we have for a long time seen same sex relationships as taboo and gross.
Yea i saw some people say if that scene was of a boy and a girl they would have still found it inorganic. I call bullshit, that's your bullshit rationalization for your bigoted outlook on same sex relationships. Yes i said it, you are bigoted, you may think you are not but you are and that's ok (not really) just don't pretend to be anything else. The scene was brilliantly acted, it was not contrived, it looks like any good acted scene between two teenagers in love. I'll be honest here and i hope some of you will be honest with yourselves as well. Seeing two men kissing in movies, tv, and real life grosses me out, not the case for women. One reason is partly because i am not physically attracted to men, and another is because i grew up believing that same sex relationships were a taboo and gross.
But to put your mind at ease, there is
NO rise of female characters, there were more men represented in games at E3 than women, just like it was last year and the year before that. The default has been men for so long that seeing more women makes you feel like men are being replaced which is not true, women are just being added. Grow the fuck up people. Having gay people and women represented in gaming is not an SJW agenda to take away your precious games and representation, it is sign of our ever evolving world and society which seeks to be more inclusive and accepting of our many differences represented in our various forms of entertainment and also companies realizing that they can make money doing it, because people love seeing themselves represented. Women make up more than half of our population, women play games as much as men so of fucking course they ought to be represented in the medium they spend their money in.