If anyone's complaint is that the companion's behavior in regard to romance needs attention, that's fine, I agree, but making out like the current state of it is damaging to straight men in specific is going off the rails and turning this into a whole nother issue that is just full of nonsense that just seems to take away from the main point.
It made sense that Astarion tries to come onto you because it's quickly clear he's trying to enthrall you as a vampire, it made sense Lae'zel quickly comes onto you because she is an otherworldly alien with apparently different sexual come-ons, but anyone else coming onto you so quickly is especially off-putting and unwelcome in most instances. Personally, I found Gale's romantic route took a long time to work through, in a realistic way. I don't know why exactly people are finding he's coming onto them inappropriately but having experienced the same thing with plenty of the other companions from Shadowheart to Minthara to Wyll to Karlach, I get the complaints in that simple regard. Let's stop painting out like straight men specifically playing this game are at a special impasse that defies someone's perspective on real-world cultural behavior or offends in a way that deserves special catering to.
I disagree that a solid solution is limiting things like Dragon Age went about it. Why? Because the only way to make as many people as happy as possible is to avoid cementing strict sexualities to romanceable characters in a game. Because even though realistically most real people do have set sexualities, that completely defeats the purpose of a major aspect of this game being accessible to most anyone. That's like taking the routes you can go about in the main story and applying a bunch of overtly realistic limitations throughout any given path. It's far too discriminating despite potentially providing more immersion. It's not how a game like this should have to be played.
The suggestion someone made of you setting your Tav's sexual preferences makes more sense than the Dragon Age approach. But I still think just more properly handling of whether or not your path gets a companion character interested in them romantically is the most logical route.
