[quote=Malaconia][quote=fylimar][quote=Aideen_asbjorn][quote=Dext. Paladin]Men are men as an excuse? Well, I'm not getting into what I'm thinking of it, because the mods are gonna cry.
But I wonder, why straight people are always feel threatened, if a game character of teh same sex makes an advance. As people pointed out, in most cases (apart from Halsin) you just can say no, problem solved.
I'm a not straight woman and I don't care for Wylls and Gales advances, I just tell them no and problem solved. People should relax a bit more, it's a game. Halsin, I just flat right ignore after his quest.
I said that comment with the learning curve with a smile, because I know, that most people wouldn't see it that way. But still , I have to laugh at all the comment about Gale coming at you, just because you are nice.
Men are men isn't an excuse though, it's a fact of life. I don't see it the way that people aren't relaxed. I don't think anyone is going crying to sleep, because a weird man in a game made advances on them.
People just want to enjoy a game, but as to your question why straight people feel 'threatened', I don't think it's like that. They're not afraid per se and calling them 'threatened' isn't accurate, and I don't think they secretly fear that seeing gays makes them gay either, it's just biology.
My point being, people are what they are, some are straight, others arent, some are more open, some aren't, but the way people are is the way they're born. Why would you want to change men? There are plenty of hostility towards men these days, but I don't see why. If people are blaming what some might call 'patriarchy', than in it should be taken account that it only constitues a miniscule amount of men in the world who are in power. Most men, in the western world at least, are quite accepting and they have no more power than women.
Here's a story. I have a gay friend. He looks like a biker, I don't mean Tom of Finland kind of 'biker' but a genuine one, beard, long hair etc. Didn't come out of the closet for a decade. When he did, guess what, no one cared, and these weren't your typical liberal men, they were the kind of men a sensitive person would look at and think toxic masculinity. Ironically women didn't like it and got mad at him, but that's neither here nor there. Point being, I don't see what an average man has done to anyone. There are assholes, but that's the way the world is, but most men mind their own business and I don't see why they shouldn't have a little romance in a game of make believe.
If something doesn't bother you, that's you, not everyone is like you. Should they be? Doesn't matter, you can't change people anyway.
