To put on a serious hat for a moment, I think that - from my point of view, anyhow - I get so steamed about this shit is because it all funnels down to whether or not people like me, or people like my friends, have the right to life. Yeah that seems like a big stretch when we're all here to talk about the vidya gaems, but representation's important, as is this idea that one can enjoy a hobby without enduring harassment up to and including death threats. The fact that some people have just kind of accepted that death threats are a thing that's going to happen and that gaming while female/homosexual/etcetc. has to have this veneer of struggling through extra bullshit is... well, it is kinda fucked up, you know? So when I get angry about this shit, I get angry because I remember my friends weeping with joy the first time they saw an asexual character just like them and got the drift that they weren't broken or defective but could have a full life just like that character, or I get angry because I remember my friends telling me about those long hours they sat with bleaching cream on their skin and how it burned and how even after that in most games they can't find any characters (or create any characters) with skin as dark as theirs, or I get angry because I remember how I've been harassed in mmorpgs before for the simple reason my avatar was female and therefore I must be receptive to sexual comments coming at me out of the blue all of the time, etc etc etc. ...It's an intensely personal topic, is what I'm saying, so that's one thing that makes it really hard to pull back and cool off. It's not really playing for small potatoes here. It's really easy to mock, I know, but before you do, consider that the steaks might be a lot higher for some people who aren't you, yeah?
AAAAaanyway.
My agenda is puppies. And if you object to it, I will violently come to your house and smush puppies against your face, because my agenda is True and Right and Correct and Full Of Fuzzy Wuzzy Puppy Bellies.
