(03-02-2015, 04:25 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:(03-02-2015, 03:44 PM)Presidio Wrote: [...]Well, looks like this particular cat's out of the bag, so I guess I'll discuss it now anyways.
Men fundamentally lack the real world experience to know what it's like to be a woman in a culture of restrictive gender norms AND heteronormativity. [...]
So, yeah, this is something I notice quite a bit as I grow older. Where I take the perspective of "what would my character logically and rationally conclude at this particularly moment in time, given the sum total of their experiences, knowledge, and emotional state?", a number of people transparently use their characters as vehicles for sexual wish-fulfillment. That on its own is not necessarily bad, but it does tend to get irritating when those same people defend some really sexist depictions (being vague here because, well, it's a lot of crap) purely because they happen to find those things appealing to their libido, while completely disregarding how the characters in question would actually do things. It's bad writing and it's bad RP, and it's really annoying running into it for the hundred thousandth time.
The fact that you state the number of times you've run into it is telling. How much of an onus is there on any one player to depict anything in a particular way?
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