maxvinyl:

tuchanka:

So, you’re a Straight Male Gamer playing a Straight Male Character and picking all diplomatic options because you’re such a Nice Guy, and would you look at that!  You’re being supportive toward a character, and they attempt to flirt with you because they appreciate your sympathy.    There’s only one problem with this.  He’s a dude.   There is absolutely nothing worse than an unsolicited, unwanted advance!  Give me a toggle flag so I don’t have to see this gay shit!  Bioware, that was out of line.

Hey, mister Straight Male Gamer?  Welcome to everyone else’s life.

Guess what—women have to deal with unwanted advances from straight men constantly, no matter where they are or what they’re doing, and they’re expected to be honored or complimented by them. (If they aren’t, then obviously something is wrong with them, because gosh, who could turn down an lewd offer to ride a handsome straight fella’s station wagon!)   Conversations in the real world don’t end in a finished cutscene or some rivalry points, either—women are frequently harassed by dudes that will just not go away unless they get the special attention they think they’re entitled to.   But y’know what,  it doesn’t always stop at HEY CHECK OUT MY COOL SUNGLASSES WHY AREN’T YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO ME I AM GOING TO ASK YOU TO DANCE AT THIS BAR UNTIL YOU GIVE IN WHAT DO YOU MEAN “NO” YOU’RE AT A BAR SO OBVIOUSLY YOU MADE THE TRIP DOWN HERE JUST TO GET INTO THE GROOVE WITH PRECIOUS OL’ ME!    Anders more or less drops it after the first time and still hangs out with you without whining every five seconds about how you put him in the friend zone and telling you how you should stop everything you are doing because he is such a nice guy therefore you should have sex with him and stop chasing after Bad Girls. All you Nice Guys out there that think you’re entitled to have sex with a woman just because you laughed at a few of her jokes and listened to her problems and cry because you got “friend zoned”?  This is you, and you are an enormous shitnugget.

In an entirely unrelated issue, I have a shocking piece of information: queer people play video games.   The same video games you do.  In games where certain aspects of the player controlled character are, in fact, up to the player, most of us don’t think it’s unreasonable to be able to have the same choices you straight dudes have, but on our terms.   In a game where there is zero control of the player controlled character (or any characters, period) there is a 99.9% chance that everyone is straight if there is a romance subplot.   Do you know what would have happened if there was a rivalry system  in either of the Mass Effect games in my  mShep playthroughs?  Let’s see, I would have pissed off… Ashley, Liara, Miranda, Jack, Kelly and Tali.   In my fShep playthroughs, I’ve consistently rejected Kaidan.   Matter of fact, there are still female NPCs who give mShep a kiss on the cheek—do you know how awesome it would be for Gianna Parasini to do the same for fShep?

A guy hitting on you in a video game doesn’t make you gay.  Matter of fact, I’ve been playing video games for ten years, and a few of them have been full of True Heterosexual Love.  I’m still pretty damn gay.   I beat Final Fantasy VIII  when I was younger, and I didn’t transform into an angsty, teenage lone wolf looking for  Rinoa. I’m the same person.  So are you.  You just got hit on by a guy and you didn’t like it.  If Bioware for some ridiculous reason actually caves and gives you assholes a No Homo flag then I had better damn well get a No Hetero one.    In the meantime, deal with it and take your rivalry points like the big, strong, manly straight man you are.

And if you’re a straight dude who doesn’t do these things, who isn’t offended by being hit on by a fictional dude, who thinks being inclusive is important and isn’t a douchebag but feels a compelling need to announce this to the world?  HERE’S YOUR MEDAL IN ADVANCE.  If it doesn’t apply to you then it’s not about you.

YES

TO

EVERYTHING

(Source: beermuda)