Wanna know what's really ironic? There's nothing inherently 'queer' about this game beyond the fact that gender doesn't limit who you can crush on, and yuri/yaoi isn't exactly unpopular among straight people. So by their definition they could have made this game more 'accessible' by going with more 'attractive' art (it is after all a
romance game) and a less belligerent title. But the objective isn't market share but message, and the creators have become so insufferable at this point that I'm hesitant to support them regardless of how good the game is or how much I agree with them in principle.
A quick Google reveals that Kit Walsh isn't just transgender or similar - apparently he/she is transracial too!
http://bloggingwhilebrown.com/speakers-2015
"Blogging while brown"?
Using the shield of 'intersectionality' to invade spaces they have no business being to co-opt the issues being advocated for is exactly the kind of insufferable shit I'm talking about. It's the same kind of appropriation and whataboutism they yell at us for.
Drag Queens have nothing to do with mocking trans people. Not even everyone in the SJW nut job community believes that, and a subset of them are the few people that do. Its just an artistic form of self expression involving the subversion of gender roles and stuff like that.
My life experience trumps your denial.
My "father" was a drag queen who stole my mom's clothes to sneak out at night when I was a young child to get his jollies. He did so out of hate and jealousy toward my mother. And would scoff at and mock anyone transsexual. He was and still is evil incarnate.
He was getting his kicks one moment, torturing and abusing a sick child the next moment, and raping my mother at the next. So you better believe, I know the face of hate.
I suffered 48 years of PTSD because of that monster. Nonstop fear. And that's no way for anyone to live. 48 years of being trapped in the moment of a small young child frozen in terror, while the monster that is the cause looms over them.
I didn't have a father. My boogeyman was very real.
This sucks, and I'm really sorry that you had/have to experience this.
But one anecdote shouldn't define an entire category of people. I imagine that there are many reasons drag queens are drag queens, but my guess is that the overwhelming majority simply like dressing up as women. It is performance art.
That said, if that is your primary and only association with a certain type of person, it is understandable why you would feel that way - at least on a purely emotional level. I once worked with a woman who had been gang-raped by several black men. She knew intellectually that most black men were not rapists, but she still had a physical response when she saw one. That was 25 years ago...I'm hoping that she found a way to heal this trauma wound, but have no idea.
One symptom of trauma is the inability to distinguish the accountable individual from the group, either intellectually or emotionally.
"Oh get over it" shows a profound ignorance of what PTSD does to a person by the one who says it. It's not something a person can just choose to "get over". The afflicted need to be able to cope with it in their own way, otherwise it's never going to stop. They need to find one aspect in their life that makes them feel safe again. And anyone who thinks it is easy is just being willfully ignorant.
People heal on their own time. And not to someone else's convenience.
I didn't say "get over it." In fact, I made absolutely no recommendations on how you should deal with your trauma, because I am very aware that trauma is extremely difficult to heal, and of course it is none of my business.
What I did say is that your experience with your father doesn't define all drag queens.
Another symptom is misinterpreting any challenge to biased thinking.
Darrin, I recognize these are open wounds of which which you may never achieve closure for, and my intent is not to poke at them, but I feel it's important to point out how trauma
itself can lead to prejudice and bigotry. Because there's a lot of genuinely wounded people out there feeding into a toxic culture which is impossible to fix because every attempt to do so is seen as #Gaslighting, #Mansplaining, dismissing lived experience, telling someone they don't exist, or suggesting someone should just get over it. There are also plenty of narcissists/sociopaths taking advantage of this state of affairs, and moving forward depends of being able to tell the difference.
Would you tolerate someone mocking somebody for getting or having cancer?
Well Deadpool seems rather popular.
Its not about identity politics. It is about facists have ZERO place in our society.
No, it
is about #IdentityPolitics because of how much it relies on having the
power to determine who should be identified as a fascist. And the game doesn't need a disclaimer against fascists
if there's nothing inherent in the material which would appeal to fascist in the first place.
Unless there
is, in which case I'm curious to hear what that is.
Well the first step to determining who is fascist is looking at the actions taken.
The only action taken was expressing an opinion.
Now if they tried to get the game banned or person fired...
Aggressiveness towards an RPG just because it caters to LGBTQ ideals is a pretty obvious clue.
Does this include individuals suffering genuine trauma?
As for LGBT 'ideals', again there's nothing inherent in the game
itself which is LGBT. In fact there's a glossary of LGBT terms 'used' in the game which are never used beyond the glossary itself. It's as if the designer thinks that simply calling something such makes it so. And advice on how to deal with aro/ace individuals in play is conspicuously absent.
aggressiveness towards an rpg because it caters to LGBTQ ideals is actively trying to exclude people from playing RPGs.
No it isn't, because nothing we say here stops people from playing.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with racial liberation, queer liberation, and intersectional feminism.
Except for the arson, looting, vandalism, harassment, defamation, assault...
That means stop deriding other people's game experiences/needs.
A standard I hold
everyone accountable to.
Why on heaven's green earth do you care if a game is advertised as anti-fascist or anti-bigot. If you aren't either of such then good for them. If you are, then just go about whatever it is your kind do on a daily basis. Why are you letting it bother you?
Because that's the kind of thinking behind every authoritarian policy since forever: Start with an obvious moral basis nobody can disagree with and then expand the definition until it encompasses all your political enemies. Which is exactly what has happened.
Let people enjoy games that make them feel comfortable and safe.
We're not stopping them.
I don't think that RPGs have any power as propaganda in changing culture. Children's television and Disney movies are powerful propaganda (among others), but RPGs require too much active involvement from the GM and players. They only attract people who are open to those views. So I see warring and raging against the politics of the other side as pointless sound and fury.
Agreed, and I've seen no evidence that these games lead to any changes in values or behavior whatsoever
even among those who claim they do.
Jesus Wept guys, congrats for falling into the trap.
Because it is a trap and this is bait.
#Awkward