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(06-24-2015, 05:16 AM)Yours Truly Wrote: Calling it a "non-issue" is very narrow-minded and naive at best, and outright harmful and dismissive at worst. Your experiences are not someone else's experiences.
By non-issue, I meant that it doesn't happen on the ordinary. After spending almost two years here and seeing zero situations where whatsoever discrimination regarding sexual orientation was seen either IC or OOC, I think I can safely say that these things though they can happen, because if there's ying there will always be yang somewhere are not ordinary, and do not require hiding/closing away from others/isolating/etc. I'm sorry that puts me as a narrow-minded and naive person, harmful and dismissive (which, wow, is way worse of a collection of adjectives that I feel I have been sharing with others in this discussion), but my concept of ordinary is clearly different from yours.
Either way, my thoughts have run their course on the topic, so I shall leave the thread now before I get more of that simply for trying to encourage some more open-mindedness and equality in a world that, as far as I have seen, is already open-minded and supportive of equality all year round. Looking forward to seeing you guys RP around.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.