(08-01-2015, 04:13 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: The crux of the Lancer's Guild storyline is the racism against Duskwights in Gridania. Everything to do with Little Ala Mhigo involves Ul'Dah's discrimination against the Ala Mhigan refugees. Doubly so with the Domans, and that one's even brought up for a good chunk of the MSQ. If you don't wanna roleplay a racist or around people who play racists, that's fine. Still, it's not like the people who play characters don't have a good basis. Prejudice and racism is treated as a very real problem in Eorzea, so I don't really see the problem in somebody playing a character with those prejudices as flaws.
If somebody is bothered by the way people present race relations in Eorzea, then they should stay away from the characters that bother them. It's not exclusion, it's common sense. That's not telling them pick up their ball and go somewhere else, it's asking them to not force others to play the kind of ball that they're most comfortable with. Other people can't make you accept roleplay that makes you uncomfortable, and you can't make anybody else change their roleplay to suit your tastes. It's common courtesy.
Honestly I have the same thoughts, in a nutshell.
In fact, I would love for people to treat my Awyrbyrt like an outsider in Gridania in spite of his patriotism, or for Shopu and Fyrilsunn to turn more heads for being such close friends with such different backgrounds. I just don't personally enjoy being the instigator for that kind of RP onto others because I like to err on the side of caution when interacting with others. And I believe that might be part of the reason this sort of RP doesn't happen more, which I find reasonable. If I ever did it would be after discussing it with the other person first to make sure they'd be okay with that. My list of things that should be off-limits for RP is actually extremely small, although I think a lot of things should be discussed OOC first so everyone's within their comfort levels and everyone has fun. Contacting everyone OOCly is a bit inconvenient logistically for public spaces though, which is unfortunate. A lot of things that make people uncomfortable don't bother me, so I try to be extra self-aware because I'd feel bad knowing I've made someone uncomfortable.
Honestly the only thing that really rankled me in this thread was the implication that people who are sensitive about certain subjects and don't want to be around them in RP aren't good roleplayers, and that they should go play another game (which was said in this thread, almost exactly in those words). We can agree to disagree about what kind of RP we like without throwing around that kind of talk.
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