(12-03-2015, 11:27 AM)Kinono Wrote: No, I agree. Not much really offends me, but it seems strange to me that people were claiming that he was changed to protect the American homophobes and... considering he seemed to be written as a gay stereotype from a country that has a reputation for being way more homophobic than other first-world countries, I'm just wondering if I missed a step in logic somewhere.
For the record, I'm typically against censorship, but when that censorship is covering up hurtful stereotypes, I tend to be a little bit more okay with it.
The stereotyping would have been seen as "gay's behavior that seems very predatory and near sexual harassment keeps bothering me, the WoL. the gay is a creeper!"
A lot of people still think that gays prey on the people they are attracted to. "WhAT IF THEY WANT ME? I DONT WANT THEM HITTING ON ME OMG GO AWAY GAY"
So this 'problematic' behavior could have been seen as bad because it showed Haurchefant as a creepy gay guy or just a creepy guy.
They started toning it down in the middle of the 2.x patches by bringing him more in line with JP Haurchefant.
But I can easily see veryangrySJWtype of people being super offended by what they could have seen as creepy behavior or that a bisexual character is being shown as creepy. You can't always win.
