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Wait, are people currently arguing about fictional representations of topics being ham-fisted, or are people arguing about fictional gender dynamics not making a lick of sense from an outsiders' perspective? If the latter, what the actual fuck.
Rereading your first post, apparently your main concern is that Eorzean social norms regarding gender equality/relations is way the fuck out of whack due in no small part to (y)our own perceived notions of "equal" i.e. women commanding men just as often as vice-versa. So you're apparently questioning why women, despite having achieved some manner or another of equality in a setting where motherfuckers kill flying dragons and dragon-likes by jumping on them and other assorted magical horseshit, get raped?
If so, let me do people such as myself - borderline-illiterate mongs who get angry when they spend more time reading stupid shit than doing something productive, such as jerking off - a favor by summing up your query/argument:
"If women are so equal, why come they keep getting raped?"
Only I'm not entirely sure that's even what's being discussed here because of your posts referring to Eorzean gender whatever as "totally alien to our own". I'm a fucking retard, somebody please tl;dr for me just what the hell is being argued here. I'm beginning to think it's either "why is rape being treated as bad", or, following a different line of thought from further up the stream, "why is rape alluded to at all".
The latter thought makes me less angry, so let's go with that. It's because the Garleans have gone too far. Raping is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for raping, like badwrong, or badong. Yes, raping is badong. From this thread, the Eorzean Alliance should stand for the opposite of raping: gnodab.
Just so moderators don't squelch me for being a dirty shitposter with nothing relevant to add to the discuss(t (you know like disgust because they are homonyms if discuss had a t at the end and sounded like disgust))ion, let me reiterate my question because I'm borderline-retarded:
What's your point, m8? Rape is badong. Square Enix thus includes rape to show that bad guys are VERY bad because everybody knows that rape is badong. They do this so that we, the players, who hold a "totally alien system of morality from the common denizen of the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: Heavensward: Stormblood (coming Soonâ„¢) universe", might empathize with victims of badong things such as rape and identify people who conduct badong things such as rape tentatively as "the bad guys".
Are we arguing about an in-lore thing, or just the writing in general?
Rereading your first post, apparently your main concern is that Eorzean social norms regarding gender equality/relations is way the fuck out of whack due in no small part to (y)our own perceived notions of "equal" i.e. women commanding men just as often as vice-versa. So you're apparently questioning why women, despite having achieved some manner or another of equality in a setting where motherfuckers kill flying dragons and dragon-likes by jumping on them and other assorted magical horseshit, get raped?
If so, let me do people such as myself - borderline-illiterate mongs who get angry when they spend more time reading stupid shit than doing something productive, such as jerking off - a favor by summing up your query/argument:
"If women are so equal, why come they keep getting raped?"
Only I'm not entirely sure that's even what's being discussed here because of your posts referring to Eorzean gender whatever as "totally alien to our own". I'm a fucking retard, somebody please tl;dr for me just what the hell is being argued here. I'm beginning to think it's either "why is rape being treated as bad", or, following a different line of thought from further up the stream, "why is rape alluded to at all".
The latter thought makes me less angry, so let's go with that. It's because the Garleans have gone too far. Raping is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for raping, like badwrong, or badong. Yes, raping is badong. From this thread, the Eorzean Alliance should stand for the opposite of raping: gnodab.
Just so moderators don't squelch me for being a dirty shitposter with nothing relevant to add to the discuss(t (you know like disgust because they are homonyms if discuss had a t at the end and sounded like disgust))ion, let me reiterate my question because I'm borderline-retarded:
What's your point, m8? Rape is badong. Square Enix thus includes rape to show that bad guys are VERY bad because everybody knows that rape is badong. They do this so that we, the players, who hold a "totally alien system of morality from the common denizen of the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: Heavensward: Stormblood (coming Soonâ„¢) universe", might empathize with victims of badong things such as rape and identify people who conduct badong things such as rape tentatively as "the bad guys".
Are we arguing about an in-lore thing, or just the writing in general?