Talanji didn’t do a whole lot, at least that I could see. Certainly not enough to get a decent image of her.
Though I don’t remember the BFA Horde plot that well.
Its a game, as someone said lately even entertainment is seen as political statement. Which is wrong. Terribly wrong. Because it is a fantasy world completely unrelated to the real one where we live. The content does not reflect any real believes or opinions. Its today’s society, that tries to shove their opinion into everything. And that is wrong of course. Are you strong willed or weak willed? One dimensional whatever? You are not special, you are a human like everyone else. Deal. With. It.
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That’s not just a wow thing. It’s happening all over western media. The strong leader woman archetype is the new hot thing to do. If you ask me, this has been mainly happening to counteract the so called “damsel in distress” archetype that was heavily overused in the past, that was later replaced with the “kickass sidekick”.
All in all, female characters have always been lacking in character diversity and this hasn’t changed just because the main archetype has shifted. Here are just a few examples of character types that are heavily underrepresented/non existent in female roles, while there are plenty of male characters like this:
- Idiots
- Cowards
- Weak Damsels that need protection
- Class Clowns
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Every society ever did that. It’s not new. Gee.
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Only difference is that nowadays everyone and their dog can write their dumb opinions in social media and everyone else and their dogs can rage at those opinions, ending society up in a never-ending spiral of negativity, strawmaning and poisoning the well. Giving small minorities of voices way more power than they should and used to have.
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is this really the hill u wanna die on my dude, considering the last hundred or so years of cinema. just cos recent media doesn’t show as many one-dimensional and male reliant characters as they used to doesn’t mean that’s a problem
I agree with this, given modern logic, I should demand undead elf options for forsaken because I want to play a dark ranger. No? Why not? Isn’t it politically correct to have as many options as we can? I am like bruuuuh if people of all races can demand, that they want to have an avatar of themselves? I want one too.
Ohh what do we have here? An internet warrior looking for a fight over pop culture. Cute. Not gonna waste my time with your sort kek. Your kind never fails to amuse me. My post didn’t even contain any criticism or condemnations of modern media tropes, yet you somehow manage to read it as such. Astonishing.
why make a post on an online forum then make fun of someone opening discourse lmao. aight mate
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ftfy
maybe that helps.
because arshiya undead elves aren’t an actual demographic in the real world. i feel like adding black people to azeroth after 15 years is slightly higher on the priority list of marginalized voices.
u do realise i quoted you. your words.
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Sounds like projecting to me and not recognizing the influence of your likley small in-group. That’s all I’m going to say to this.
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not sure how that has anything to do with what I’ve said, but sure why not.
Yeah, but this is kind of the issue. TBC for example also didn’t have good writing and characters, but was not story driven, but rather exploration driven, like MMO’s are supposed to. Shadowlands is extremely story-driven with lots of talking, BUT the writing is still really really bad.
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So let me get this straight… if I’m catching the jist of this thread…
the female characters are there if you squint (like 50/50 m/f)…
but all the characters -including the blokes- are pretty shallow…
so it’s easy to miss out on the the females…
-like it’s easy to miss out on the unengaging males-
…and while we hoped SL would be story driven…
it’s sort of a long winded monologue…
…while your character stands there AFK on a railroad -like a damsel in distress- waiting for the unengaging female (and male characters) to stop spewing out dialogue…
… but don’t worry, your alts can skip all this and just go straight to the rep grind…
…???
Is that it?!?
I do find it intresting that the loading screen has females on one side and males on the other and intrestingly all the males are villians yet none of the females are.
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Telvana got it in one!!!
We’re meant to contemplate the loading screen. Perfectly said. You are a genius!
So listen up everyone.
This next one is gonna be boys against girls…
but wait for it… the boys are going to go skins for this one okay!
hut hut hut… break!
My plan in a nutshell.
Can’t fuss over the story if you skip all of it.
They may be not in real world, but the game does not depict real world either. That’s the point.
pretty trash take tbqh. fantasy reflects reality; always has.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/02/afros-in-azeroth-quest-for-diversity-in-world-of-warcraft
Good article explaining its importance. in short ppl deserve to be able to play characters they feel reflect them irl.
“The reality is that Tolkein derived fantasy, what we call traditional fantasy, so often reflects a western European ethos,” Hazzikostas expands. “It reflects works made for that smaller audience, that has since become globalised. Plenty of people could previously make a stout dwarf or a quirky gnome … but the skin tones to match the range of our players weren’t there. We’ve changed that.”
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