Jul 22, 2019, 5:37 PM

@Cobaltasaurus said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

I don't think @Quinn was being literal about the ball scratch thing, my dudes. I think it was an easy example of why it's difficult for her to play male characters and why she doesn't. Saying "well just don't pose ball scratching" and then "well just play a character who happens to be male/female/nonbinary/a lamp and not a character who is male/female/nonbinary/a lamp" is a little bit dismissive of her perspective...

But it could also be damaging to the portrayal of those types of characters. Especially if you take away the gender part and instead insert race/ethnicity or sexuality. If you are a white person playing a POC on a game and you don't give any thought to who that person's background has effected them you might find yourself walking straight into stereotypes.

Eh, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of her perspective; I was just offering my perspective.

Gotta be honest here? I think we could (or should) expect greater accuracy from professionals (writers, politicians, show-runners, public figures), but it's also important to remember that for the most part the people in this hobby are people who just got off of work from Arby's, have sore feet, and wanna eat pizza and creatively roleplay as space wizards, gothy elf-fae coffee house owners, and Decepticons.

It's a best effort service and casual missteps arent going to alter the way things are described on CNN, so the bar for "Are people being cool about it when we say HEY THATS KIND OF OFFENSIVE TO ME" should be higher than the bar for preferred noun accuracy and/or entire social awareness factor; especially when a player from Norway has a different social life than a player from Florida.