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Originally Posted by Window
Do you not see it as an example of the direction that our country is headed currently? I could care less about gay/straight, the issue is that everyone so scared of the current outrage culture that they are forced to go out of their way to show that they are inclusive or risk backlash from the vocal .5% or however much it is of the population. My example shows that it has trickled all the way down to our video games.
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it's not "outrage culture" driving it, it's the consumer response to marketing. minorities have been vocally outraged for centuries.
incidentally, about one in twenty humans self-identifies as gay versus straight when asked. another one in twenty humans refuses to answer the question, so probably also gay, or perhaps file under "it's complicated". you appear to think that a much smaller percentage of those folks care whether or not they are represented in various media.
imagine for a moment that all of your television shows, books, music, and video games were exclusively full of homosexuals and people of color, for years and years and years, except for the few times that they put a token white straight man on a television show in a pandering moment of social empathy in the name of progress. that would suck.
don't tell me that the day that straight white people started getting represented in the media as just part of the mixing bowl instead of a terrible stereotype wouldn't make you feel at least a little better about your place in the world.
if your first reaction is to disagree, try thinking about it again, but this time, use the power of your imagination! imagine feeling for your whole life like a not normal person, and then slowly but surely being accepted as a normal person by the rest of society. i think it would be exhausting to have to wait a lifetime to be accepted as an equal member of society, judged on words, action and merit, not skin color or sexual preference. i think it's a good thing for people to feel accepted like that.
once you get to know a person, all bets are off of course. after all they could be a complete douche.
disclaimer: i have no idea if you are a straight white male, but i'll assume that for the sake of this discussion, but it won't matter either way. this entire post, and the thread in which it resides, is pointless, and it will do nothing to change either thought or behavior.