Nothing about what the OP wrote is homophobic, stop trying to just reduce things to buzz words.
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I thought people became gay after being struck by lightning. Legend says that it is Zeus himself that singles you out because he wants a piece of that.
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Nah, the people in ancient greece were made gay by their teachers. Obviously.
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Good, I thought my lack of lightning related brain trauma meant that Zeus thought I wasn’t good enough for him.
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I have nothing against anyone personally and I am all for identity freedom. My only issue is that such conflicts and politics do not belong into a game. As it only shows that society simply cannot keep quiet and play, no they always have to argue and bicker and nitpick and nip at everything someone says. I am playing WoW to relax and have fun. So come play with me, but leave all religious, racist, indentity crisis and politics in the real world where they respectively belong.
I personally dislike nearly all relationships in Warcraft, as most of them seemingly only exist for some cheap and quick drama and/or are terribly written. Although I do admit from what I’ve seen so far the one in Ardeanweald seems to quite okay…but I haven’t seen the entire questline yet.
Regardless: Aggra can burn in the Maw as she did not serve any other purpose than sinking the ship of Jaina and Thrall. Which is far superior anyway.
People care way too much about what is “canon”. Like Ghostbusters 3 never existed for fans, or Star Wars 7-9.
You don’t like a character being gay? There’s lots of “fan art” proving it’s not ahahahaha
You can rationalize anything, it’s an rpg.
When did he said he is a afraid of gay people?
That’s what a phobia is " a type of anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.".
People yelling about “homophobia” have no clue what their yelling. They made up a word which has no sense in any language from a grammar point of view.
So, my advice, educate yourselves.
What I find it funny though, people like you act like insulting and opressing others for not bowing to non-straight preference is the way to go and this can have any good outcome.
Bullying no matter the reasoning is bullying and the long-term result is more hatred.
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really? reread the OP’s first post please.
after two gay characters were added into the lore (just in the book, not even in game mind you) it made him so emotional he left game for good.
it is a text book homophobia, and nothing else. I don’t know why people so afraid of using this word when it’s completely appropriate.
If it cuts your sensitive ears, just don’t engage in the discussion.
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Here I am asking why a game around Warcraft has to have romantically relationships on the nose like that, heterosexual or homosexual.
Never have I once thought “Oh I wish to explore the romantic interests of these individuals”. There are other games, movies, series, stories for that.
This is a game about Warcraft. Sure the writers can explore certain topics, but really, have the heterosexual ever been written good? Outside Tyrande and Malfurion calling eachother “my love”, it has been bad. Thrall’s wedding, Jaina and her dragon boyfriend to name a few.
Relationships were better portrayed when they were vague and subtle. People were still thinking if Arthas and Jaina were dating, even 10 years after Warcraft 3 came out.
They should just keep that stuff subtle. In the background. Not dedicate entire pages to it. Jesus Christ, both heterosexual or homosexual. It’s not what the game is about.
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If that opinion is something like “homosexual relationships shouldn’t be part of the game because it feels forced to me”, then yes.
What makes homosexual relationship forced? The only argument i see here is that it’s not heterosexual relationship. If two homisexual men/women being in a relationship makes people uncomfortable and they don’t like it just because it’s not a heterosexual relationship, then yes, those people are homophobic.
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Unless the reaction is the same in every situation, “feels forced” is an extremely valid opinion.
What’s badly done about relationships and stuff like this is how they are rubbed in the protagonist’s face in situations when it’s not appropriate, not whether the relationships are gay or straight.
Tarenar Sunstrike and Gidwin Goldbraids strike me as pretty obviously a gay interracial couple that is done well in the game. The relationship is inferred rather than having them tell the player how much they love each other. It’s none of the player’s business anyway.
Thrall’s wife and the relationship between Tyrande and Malfurion are handled badly. Most of Tyrande’s dialogue concerning Malfurion is shrieking at the player, who is not her close personal acquaintance, about her ‘husband’ or her ‘beloved’ rather than it being inferred that we are supposed to be helping a character she cares very much about.
Same thing with the character in the Shadowlands who insists on telling the player how he feels that he used to be female. I mean, that’s not very professional to tell someone you don’t know from Adam personal stuff about yourself like that. Haven’t you got a sibling or a friend you can talk to? It would have worked better to leave the players to recognise that the character had a different sex before he died and make of that what they will.
Hahahaha another classic example where brotherhood and comraderie is once again being narrated as gay.
These guys knew eachother from their childhood. Ofcourse they’re going go be close friends.
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