@surreality said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:
It's the rest of us that need answers, and they're hard to come to if 'if you accept this at all, you just want to demean women RL and call people offensive slurs right and left' or 'you just want the world rewritten to bubble wrap your personal sensibilities and everyone is sensitive to something' are the only positions people recognize as participants in the discussion.
If this thread has a point at all it is to at least allow the conversation to be had, and see what - if any - restraints are sufficient to both allow for some interesting depictions of real world issues while not making the same setting essentially unplayable for those who have faced a form of discrimination in their own real lives.
I am not even sure if it's fair to call for understanding from both 'sides' of this (to the extent there are sides). Some of us simply happen to be on the more privileged side of the social fence, and that's a difficult signal to override.