Reading through the current Dragon's Crown thread that started up today and I came across this comment (and another on the previous page)
Yeah there is clearly no balance here. To say otherwise is to be lying.
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I've noticed this tendency in the last couple years to take words that have strong meaning behind them (Nazi, incel, misogyny, etc) and completely misuse them for innocuous things or things that the user simply dislikes that have nothing to do with the word itself.
How is it that one can reasonably argue that creating imagery that one could find sexually attractive or pleasing is an act of misogny? If I create an image of a man with the same intent am I committing misandry (even if arguing that it has "less effect")? Most works that have these sorts of elements mostly cater to one demographic because that's what the creators like and/or are trying to sell to. The argument doesn't hold water imo since if works that target heterosexual men are sexist and thus bad because they don't target anyone else then that means works that target other groups are also sexist for not targeting other groups as well.
That would mean that Dream Daddy for example is sexist because it wasn't created to cater to straight men or women.
Otome games are sexist and thus bad because they don't cater to straight or homosexual men and homosexual women.
Calling works that cater to a single group sexist and bad (but not applying the same logic to works that appeal to you) does nothing but further the pointless demonization of people who are doing nothing wrong other than existing and expressing their sexuality.
Straight people are always going to be the majority. Straight people, just like any other group of people, are going to express their sexuality whether personally or through creative works. That's just always going to be a thing. So this trend of people acting like someone creating works that appeal to them (that are straight men in this instance) is committing some mortal sin is completely pointless.
Also I noticed that in this thread people are claiming that they are merely criticizing Dragon's Crown, but I would suggest that there's a difference between criticizing something, in that it attempts to do something and could do better and arguing that something should just not exist or change to be fundamentally different from what the creator is attempting to accomplish.
If I said that I dislike the fact that Call of Duty is a first person shooter and instead should be a third person melee combat game, I don't think saying "I'm just critiquing this" is a reasonable response to someone telling me that I should play something else. In this case I am arguing against something that is a core part of the experience that the game and its creators are trying to provide. Another example would be saying that a comedy movie would be much more enjoyable if it was an action movie instead. At that point you're not really giving points for how the movie can improve on what it's trying to accomplish, but instead saying that it should just be something entirely different that suits your tastes.
At the end of this, I think it would be really cool if people could just stop hating other people for having an attraction and expressing that through creative works, and instead spend that energy creating whatever it is they personally want including things they think there aren't enough of but given what I've seen on the internet these past number of years I think that desire is a bit too optimistic.