Any “bitching” that goes on in the reblogs is generally calling out the confessor on sexism, racism, any number of other “isms,” or just being ill-informed.
Nice gendered insult, by the way. It really removes the guesswork in puzzling out which controversial posts you agree with.
It’s like some folk are too busy defending themselves to consider that they are, in fact, doing something wrong.
But it’s just a gaaaaaaaaaaaaame! EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN NEGATIVE REACTIONS!!!!! Why does everyone take bigotry so seriously???!!!!!!!!1 wtf ppl????????
“It’s just a game” does not any way shape or form negate that it is a media footprint than can be interrogated in terms of it’s own fictional world and in terms of ours. When they first came out, I’m sure some people said, “They’re just plays” about Shakespeare’s work. People can say, “It’s just a TV show” about Buffy or LOST, but that doesn’t suddenly make the growing number of people taking scholarly approaches to examining these shows and writing books about them. You could call the Harry Potter series “just a book,” but again, scholarly poking around in it is and has been occurring.
These and other fictional works handle real-world issues, albeit often in non-real-world ways. People question and interrogate stage, film, and print media ALL THE FREAKING TIME, so why the hell should they not do the same to video games, especially games that are so heavily story-driven as the Dragon Age games?
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 