(10-09-2015, 10:10 AM)Kage Wrote:(10-09-2015, 01:27 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: If you chose the race because of the race then you wouldn't feel so inclined to throw away a substantial portion of what identifies that race. If you chose them because you think ears and tails are kawaii, then that's totally valid and fine. Just say it as such.Bolded for emphasis. I'm not sure if this is your intention but your word usage implies a certain amount of bias to me. Call me sensitive, but it feels like your opinion is that people who want to play a specific race because of aesthetics or visual appearances is only because of the "weeb". Am I hanging on too much to your word usage or am I onto something?
Hanging too much. As I mentioned in the post there's nothing wrong with it if someone chose a race based purely on visual aesthetics, but if that's the case, and they're choosing to largely ignore what the race is about beyond the superficial level, they can't really say they like "the race" in as much as it would be more accurate for them to say "they like visuals of the race". Players should play what they want to play, absolutely - they just should be clear about the reason why they wanted to play it.Â
In response to some others:
Quit clinging to "sex" and "breeding" as the emphasis, please. There's a lot more to a culture's choice of how their relationships and family structures occur than that, and by focusing specifically on throwing out those terms you're focusing on the wrong thing. Yes, to a lot of people RP and roleplayed relationships are all about ERP. I don't think anybody here is actually discussing that. What's being discussed, as far as I can tell, is the culture of the species as it relates to relationships and family structures, of which the actual act of giggity is a very small component.
Consider the real world for a moment. In many places in 2015, monogamous relationships are considered normal, and there's a fairly preset structure to how people advance from "we're dating" to "we're engaged" to "we're married". But, that isn't the only relationship and family structure that exists in the real world in 2015. Consensual polygamous relationships are very common and ordinary in many cultures in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, and it's almost never about sex any more than monogamy in other cultures is chosen due to some fetish for having only a single partner.Â
While it's absolutely valid that to many players the aspect of "whee, my miqo'te male can have so much sex" is a selling point, we must remember to let that sort of thing rest as a judgment against that player being in it for the ERP, and not a judgment against the culture of the race being about sex (because it isn't).
Lydia Lightfoot ~ The Reliquarian's Guild «Relic» ~ Lavender Beds, Ward 12, #41
This player has a sense of humor. If the content of the post suggests otherwise, please err on the side of amusement and friendship, because that's almost certainly the intent. We're all on the same team: Team Roleplayer! Have a smile, have a chuckle, and have a slice of pie. Isn't pie great?
This player has a sense of humor. If the content of the post suggests otherwise, please err on the side of amusement and friendship, because that's almost certainly the intent. We're all on the same team: Team Roleplayer! Have a smile, have a chuckle, and have a slice of pie. Isn't pie great?
