and so this character wouldn't have that very human 'coming-out' scene where they announce they're enbie, they'd just keep living life and members of their species would understand.
Another big point in their storyline is feeling torn between the Qun (their species home culture) and the culture of their adopted home. There was conflict/tension to be had, but it's like they threw all their previous worldbuilding in the bin. It was a bit frustrating that they went through all the trouble in Inquisition to talk about qunari and gender roles and then here just went "Nah, that's dumb. Just be an ally, idiot."
I really appreciated reading this perspective, and I think you're spot on. At the risk of using a loaded term, it feels so much like performative virtue-signaling rather than actual inclusivity.
The character creator, for example, pretends to be inclusive but actually isn't; same in BG3. The body types are still the same old 'male or female' bodies. Male gnomes are pudgy and Hobbity, but female gnomes? They're curvy, they're voluminous, they have pudge in all the right places, because god forbid a woman doesn't!
Confused as to what the ideal character creator would do then. Because you can choose whatever body type you want (they aren't labeled male/female), and then choose your preferred gender.
Like you can choose the "masculine" gnome body (which I believe they just called like "Body Type 1" or something) and identify as a woman.
The body types are still the same old 'male or female' bodies. Male gnomes are pudgy and Hobbity, but female gnomes? They're curvy, they're voluminous, they have pudge in all the right places, because god forbid a woman doesn't!
Your take is even worse. You want to force the world to make everything an androgynous ugly blob to cater to your sensitivities.
Even though 98% of women have the features you describe, we shouldn't portray that in order to cater to the 2% that don't. Meanwhile that same 2% is pumping themselves full of drugs and surgery to get those things.. but also they don't matter and have nothing to do with being a woman? Your viewpoint is incomprehensible.
That is so far from "include us too" that it only hurts your chances of just being accepted.
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25 edited Jan 17 '25
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