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(08-10-2013, 03:40 PM)synaesthetic Wrote: I don't know why they don't just make the wedding clothes available and let people RP their own weddings. It'd take the pretend controversy away and Squeenix would be left completely blameless; after all, you can't hold a company responsible for what its customers do.
By actively choosing to accept only a heteronormative marriage paradigm but forbid anything outside that, they are absolutely discriminating against people and it is not cool.
The easiest way out of this for Square would be to simply add no official marriage system and allow people to do whatever they wish with whomever they wish outside of the game mechanics entirely.
I don't really get why they don't do this. I don't have a problem with other game developers who choose not to add marriage for whatever reason. If they don't want to deal with the flak they receive for "officially sanctioning" gay marriage, hey, that's fine, as long as everyone's on equal footing--both straight and gay couples have to RP their marriage themselves without the involvement of game mechanics.
Choosing to allow only straight couples to marry through a game system and intentionally excluding gay couples is discrimination no matter what you say. I'm not going to "respect their culture" if their culture unfairly excludes me simply because I don't have any interest in cocks and balls.
This, this, this. This is exactly what I feel down to a T. I wouldn't even mind if they removed wedding as a game mechanic. Give me pretty clothes to wear and I'll take it from there.