(03-02-2015, 04:53 PM)Verad Wrote:(03-02-2015, 04:49 PM)Presidio Wrote: If individual RPers don't want to have the onus for socially conscious RP placed on them, then it will ultimately result in a negative climate. If you don't ask individuals to be responsible for how they depict tricky things like gender and sexuality then the average depiction of those things will often be slapdash and upsetting.
Often these things can be slapdash and upsetting because individuals have examined their reasons for portraying a character in such a way, and created plausible reasons for doing so. Somebody can do this even while fully aware of and in opposition to heteronormative culture.
For example, someone could play a trans character who only wanted to fool straight men, and wanted to just sneak into women's potties, and blah blah blah.
Is that a healthy portrayal? No, but those people /do/ exist. If you want to RP one, that's kind of weird, but whatever, more power to you.
No one has to RP the embodiment of what is best and most progressive about a given group of people.
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