@Ganymede said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:
@Vorpal
Let's call a spade a spade, then.
Yes, let's.
I may have been wrong to read into this that the game was calculated to be homosexual-friendly. Maybe you don't read it like that.
From the brochure: "gay, bi, and queer male characters". I think that is pretty damned explicit as to whom the clientele is. It’s right there, crystal clear, in black and white, evident to even the most cursory of readings. Even Walt Disney got it, and he's been dead for fifty years.
The first question I had was: why no women? To which the response appears to be: we don't want to. And then, the second question would be: knowing that other games have treated established homosexual, bisexual, and queer women poorly, why not celebrate women? To which, the apparently response is: OHMYGOD HOW DARE YOU HATE ON US.
Because, if I may be so blunt, the entitlement level is too damned high. “Why not this?” “Because we don’t want to.” “BUT WHYYYYYY? THESE OTHER PLACES HAVEN’T DONE IT SO YOU TOTALLY SHOULD DO IT”
Oh my fucking god. Shut up.
Maybe I am being condescending. There are reams and reams of comic book critique focused on the gay, lesbian, bi, and queer portrayals in comics. You're no doubt aware of that. I have no doubt that @Hushicho is aware of that. And I can find no reasonable explanation as to why female PCs of any stripe aren't allowed on this game.
Because. They. Don’t. Fucking. Want. To.
Do you own the server?
No.
Do you own the game?
No.
You don’t get to tell them what theme they get to put on.
Yes, Ganymede, you are being extremely condescending, because if we’re talking about sexuality and, dare we say it, fetishes, the answer “because that is what I like and what I want to do” is, indeed, a perfectly reasonable explanation. It’s not a reasonable explanation to you because you and some others seem to want this game to be some sort of Social Crusade to right the wrongs of past representation-
It’s a sex game.
No, seriously. It mostly is. It’s a fetish superhero game featuring male superheroes who are not straight. It’s for people who like that sort of thing, just like places like hardheroes dot com. They want to be surrounded by men. Men in tights. Who like other men, and who like the fact that other men like them.
It's as specific a niche as you can find.
They're also very nice people, from what I recall and from what everybody who has been there says.
You are basically descending like self-righteous harpies demanding that a group of people change their sexy pretend fun-times just so that your desire for representation be justified. This is as entitled and as full of crazy as you going to someone who likes the opposite gender to yours and vociferously demand why the fuck are they not masturbating to you?
It’s right up there with that brand of crazy.
But I'm not hating on the game. I don't hate it. Criticism is not hate. So, let's stop throwing about pointless hyperbole in an effort to get a rise.
This isn’t criticism. This is self-righteous entitlement. You’re berating the game for something it isn’t, and something it was never meant to be. You are Don Quixote tilting a lance of outrage at a windmill ,