Homophobia in roleplay needs to cease

What if the Mongols…

But in space?

Gay space mongols on bikes.

See you joke, but thanks to recent lore declarations by the Blizzard team, this is now entirely plausible within the World of Warcraft.

In this essay, therefore, I will…

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I dunno, man. Have you seen (sadly) 95% of AD’s LGBT characters. They are precisely that.

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The loudest voices are the easiest to hear. That doesn’t mean that they are the majority.

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I thought you loved our queen!!!

So, the White Scars?

No, but them being the majority of LGBT characters you come across does.

Indeedy, hence “I see your Genghis and raise you a Jaghatai.” :smiley:

And they mainly congregate to Goldshire.

gr8 impressions on us all

That’s a weird way of typing “Lion’s Rest” and “The Valley of Honor”

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Is it bad I had to google to remind myself where Lion’s rest is…

You mean they’re… leaking out now!?

Now? You’ve been playing with them in Darkshire for years.

I dunno, I ain’t payed much attention to anything in the past few years there. Before that is now a lost memory.

They are the majority of characters you can recognise as being LGBT – it’s lazy to then assume that they are the majority overall.

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By just being very not nice people.

Unfortunately, current year matters little when many countries are still very homophobic and spread such misinformation. I don’t think it’s improbable for someone to have very few interactions with LGBTQ+ people and/or have a fragmented/wrong idea.

Many of those people I believe (perhaps naively) can still think to themselves once they’re exposed to different kinds of people and see that they’re not literally the devil. IMO representation in media and games can do a whole lot to show that LGBTQ+ people aren’t what homophobic narratives try to push forwards.

Which is why I’m very happy about Shadowlands having diversity, Fairshaw becoming a confirmed thing ((might even want to buy the exploring EK book if it has tidbits of Fairshaw in it)) and so on. I’m also giving Danuser a pass just this once.

And I’m also glad I can now basically write every homophobic character I meet IC off as headcanon and thus non-existent. :sunglasses:

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Just here to flex in Pansexual Sin’dorei

Good to finally get word from the most blue post that can possibly be Blue. Get rekt homophobic simpletons.

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Afaik the text says he disagrees with the sentiment- He doesn’t deny it. While it is semantics and probably unimportant in the grand scheme of things because as established there’s very few (if any) instances where such prejudice can be done tastefully. (I didn’t watch the video because I can’t stand the guy so if the wording is incorrect correct me if I am wrong).

It’d also make the words a bit more stronger if the guy saying these words wasn’t the guy who spent 1 hour in story panel last winter patting himself & his dojo friends on the back about how supposedly BFA story was very nuanced and great (while literally not answering a single negative feedback about the story inconsistencies). Don’t get me wrong, I think its great he confirmed what people had been saying in this thread already, but use that as a credit to say he’s in any way shape or form competent at his job is frankly just not the case.

Good announcement but the story they write is still in shambles.

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Like not getting to wear hats! Atrocious.

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