Silly me for expecting people to confine their discussion to the game.

Icy wrote: »

Silly me for expecting people to confine their discussion to the game.

Not saying it's silly, I just know how gaming communities are and that things like this will always happen.

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Fleymark wrote: »

For the record, personally, I think these depictions are great. I just happen to find it highly amusing that some people in our society are so preoccupied with political correctness that they have to make this big of a deal about it, is all.

"Political correctness" has to be one of the most misused phrases ever by certain parties... Right up there with the misuse of the word agenda.

How is it political correctness for people to be happy they are included? If conversations about said are so annoying why not just go to another thread?

It was a nice post OP.

edit for clarity

I'm into a particular subset of BDSM. Have been my whole life. I'm reasonably certain I was born with it. I'm not talking about a "once in a while bedroom proclivity." It's an ever present lifestyle thing that is as defining in my life as anyone lgbt. In fact, I've discussed this at length with gay friends and the similarities are striking. The same insecurities as a child about it. The same awkwardness in relationships as a young adult. The list goes on and on. Uncanny, really.

With one key diffence in some cases. I don't find a need to jump up and down and say "look at me" every time I see a reasonable depiction of alternative lifestyles in media or, at very least, we aren't a serial killer or a punch line. I'm perfectly comfortable with myself either way and don't have an AGENDA to be validated in movies, tv shows or video games or by people in general. Some things make a lot of people uncomfortable, most are pretty much indifferent, but in any case not getting special recognition and making a big deal of it isn't the same as being excluded. LOL

Yes, I know what an agenda is as well as political correctness and I don't need to be condescended to because you don't happen to like what I have to say, thank you.

If I had an agenda I would demand that zenimax include some accurate representations of alternative lifestyles in the game. Then I would make a big deal of thanking them on the boards and flame anyone who disagreed or thought it wasn't a big deal. LOL

But I don't. Because it's meaningless. The fact that some think it's not is what I findamusing.

Icy wrote: »

Such a shame. This was a thread to congratulate ZoS on doing a great job with gender representation IN-GAME because this is a game forum and the best place to talk about things that happen IN-GAME.

There are other forums to talk about things that happen in that other MMO we all play called RL.

@ZOS_CarolusS could you close this thread?

Whose idea of gender representation? And yes I am the creature you think I am. I believe in biology. Arguing that a pair bond that can not pass its genes on to the next generation as a norm is insanity at its finest.

Grats?

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