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Square made a fictional world where sexism is a thing and that is ok because it's a fictional world. Getting bothered by that is silly. Choosing to RP in it and then ignoring that that is a thing is silly. Getting mad at it is silly. It's fictional. It doesn't exist. There are many more real world topics that could use that fire.
That is a totally separate issue from the following.
I'm not a fan of rape as plot device because it's done in a really cringy and hamfisted way 99.9% of the time. It's important to understand your depth and scope and talent as a writer before you inflict that stuff on people. Some of the best authors in the world will not touch sexual assault with a protagonist because they know they can't give it the sensitivity and depiction it deserves.
There's certain areas of FF14 that allude to sexual assault and honestly they made me cringe because of how it was depicted. I'm not gonna get into the where and how and what but suffice to say I don't even really trust Square, let alone most RPers, to approach this topic with the appropriate sense of dignity and I don't think kicking it around here really serves much purpose either, honestly.
That is a totally separate issue from the following.
I'm not a fan of rape as plot device because it's done in a really cringy and hamfisted way 99.9% of the time. It's important to understand your depth and scope and talent as a writer before you inflict that stuff on people. Some of the best authors in the world will not touch sexual assault with a protagonist because they know they can't give it the sensitivity and depiction it deserves.
There's certain areas of FF14 that allude to sexual assault and honestly they made me cringe because of how it was depicted. I'm not gonna get into the where and how and what but suffice to say I don't even really trust Square, let alone most RPers, to approach this topic with the appropriate sense of dignity and I don't think kicking it around here really serves much purpose either, honestly.
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