(04-29-2015, 11:45 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I don't understand your argument. You're pointing out that that other game has so much better (for you, even) character allowances, yet you're here trying to escape. I'm missing something here.I see that you don't understand at all. Of course you don't, as your position is fundamentally different from my own.
"These cookies would be so much better if they were brownies."
Let me put it this way: I play video games to help me escape from the reality where I would be ridiculed and put down were I to ever attempt to express myself in any way outside of what is expected of me (note: I live in Texas). Telling me that trying to do this in a video game is the wrong thing to do is akin to telling me that I am not allowed to exist in any form outside of what is given to me.
For loads of people, genderqueer folk don't even exist. Every day I am reminded of that fact, especially when I try to make characters like me. It all adds up. It gets tiresome.
That is why I am so passionate about this to begin with.
(04-29-2015, 12:00 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I feel like you're going for the emotionally manipulative angle at this point. Â What's coming across is, "You said something I don't like. Â Omg, you are so mean you made me cry. Â You're a bad person and should feel ashamed of yourself."See above.
People are gonna disagree with you. Â I haven't seen anything Warren's said that was overtly malicious or hostile, especially not in the last few posts you've quoted. Â If you can't handle people disagreeing with you, it's probably unwise for you to engage in any sort of debate with other people. Â Because opinions are like assholes - everyone has one.
This is an emotionally charged issue for me. I want to exist, I don't want to kill my individual self in order to conform. If you think there is nothing malicious in refusing my right to express myself in virtual worlds, we are approaching this from fundamentally different positions. And that's okay, but you have to understand why I feel the way I do.
And for the record, I did cry. It was helpful and cathartic. I should probably do it more often instead of raging.
