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11 yrs ago
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You have beautiful eyes.
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Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0
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11 yrs ago
Forum: Roleplaying Discussion
@The Harbinger of Ferocity
No, I completely agree on the topic of misappropriation of gender identity. I would never advocate not incorporating your character elements in a meaningful manner one way or another, but, with the simple scale of skilled to unskilled incorporation, a lot of the time I find myself unable to discern whether someone truly intends for a character to be transgender and simply cannot play it well (or the nature of the RP never allows a good moment to work in that aspect in a believable manner--as opposed to shoehorning) or is simply abusing the concept for some ill-conceived notion of idiosyncrasy.
I tend to avoid the problem by living and letting live unless the RP is centered around a topic or approaching a scenario that could make gender identity a major issue, in which case, yes, do call those types of irreverent snowflakes out on their bullshit.
Of course, obvious extremes are obvious and I don't think anyone would disagree that being a blatant special snowflake is a terrible concept to base a character's gender around. I couldn't agree more with your sentiments.
My observation was more focused on the gray areas. My apologies for not making that clear.
No, I completely agree on the topic of misappropriation of gender identity. I would never advocate not incorporating your character elements in a meaningful manner one way or another, but, with the simple scale of skilled to unskilled incorporation, a lot of the time I find myself unable to discern whether someone truly intends for a character to be transgender and simply cannot play it well (or the nature of the RP never allows a good moment to work in that aspect in a believable manner--as opposed to shoehorning) or is simply abusing the concept for some ill-conceived notion of idiosyncrasy.
I tend to avoid the problem by living and letting live unless the RP is centered around a topic or approaching a scenario that could make gender identity a major issue, in which case, yes, do call those types of irreverent snowflakes out on their bullshit.
Of course, obvious extremes are obvious and I don't think anyone would disagree that being a blatant special snowflake is a terrible concept to base a character's gender around. I couldn't agree more with your sentiments.
My observation was more focused on the gray areas. My apologies for not making that clear.
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Please stop looking at me like that.
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@Fillet
If labeling someone as a transgender makes no difference to how the RP perceives them in terms of traditional gender roles, then what's the harm in ignoring it? Labeling a character as such allows for future events to bring up the transgender issue if the player feels like it. Labeling a character as "male" and then bringing up a possible transgender issue in the RP would cause significantly more confusion.
Perhaps the gender comes up in a moment of conversation between a few sympathetic or curious characters, or perhaps it never comes up at all and the player simply...plays. In any case, the assertion that someone must be strictly "male" or "female" unless their transgender status makes a difference to the character or the story inherently implies that "transgender" is something different--something too special to mention unless it matters. Personally, I find that a little off-putting. Just read "transgender" like you would read "male" or "female" and the issue goes away. How other characters perceive/interact with a distinctly labeled "transgender" is an entirely separate matter from the character's actual gender identity.
I do, however, understand your complaint when it's a blatantly careless labeling for the sake of being different--the people who do that are abusing the identity for special snowflake purposes, but the line isn't particularly clear between a special baby and a genuinely transgender character whose gender identity simply has little effect IC. Since that's the case, perhaps give characters like that the benefit of the doubt since there's no issue to be had, honestly.
If labeling someone as a transgender makes no difference to how the RP perceives them in terms of traditional gender roles, then what's the harm in ignoring it? Labeling a character as such allows for future events to bring up the transgender issue if the player feels like it. Labeling a character as "male" and then bringing up a possible transgender issue in the RP would cause significantly more confusion.
Perhaps the gender comes up in a moment of conversation between a few sympathetic or curious characters, or perhaps it never comes up at all and the player simply...plays. In any case, the assertion that someone must be strictly "male" or "female" unless their transgender status makes a difference to the character or the story inherently implies that "transgender" is something different--something too special to mention unless it matters. Personally, I find that a little off-putting. Just read "transgender" like you would read "male" or "female" and the issue goes away. How other characters perceive/interact with a distinctly labeled "transgender" is an entirely separate matter from the character's actual gender identity.
I do, however, understand your complaint when it's a blatantly careless labeling for the sake of being different--the people who do that are abusing the identity for special snowflake purposes, but the line isn't particularly clear between a special baby and a genuinely transgender character whose gender identity simply has little effect IC. Since that's the case, perhaps give characters like that the benefit of the doubt since there's no issue to be had, honestly.
Sye-lus it is.
@Howler
I was wondering how to pronounce his name (because I don't want to be reading it wrong in my head as we RP together). Is it See-lass, Sye (like rye)-lass, Syllus, or Sye-lus (rhymes with stylus)?
Also, your hider isn't working because your tags here
"[i][b]Pride[/i][/b]
Named for the pride the Tevinter weaponsmiths had in their arms or in irony of the revolting slaves, depending on who you ask, the Pride series repeaters are well-kept repeating rifles that do their job and do it well. Silas' only true precision weapon, it doesn't have the flash of the 7:12 or the raw power of Benedictions, but in many ways that makes it more dangerous. With enough power to punch through a chevalier's armor at range and enough accuracy to shoot where you point it, Silas' has seen hardened veterans sob in the mud after being brought low by proper Tevinter marksmen."
are misaligned.
I have no idea why. I was just testing it on a preview and this is the only part that won't preview correctly.
Swap the positions of the closing tags.
I was wondering how to pronounce his name (because I don't want to be reading it wrong in my head as we RP together). Is it See-lass, Sye (like rye)-lass, Syllus, or Sye-lus (rhymes with stylus)?
Also, your hider isn't working because your tags here
"[i][b]Pride[/i][/b]
Named for the pride the Tevinter weaponsmiths had in their arms or in irony of the revolting slaves, depending on who you ask, the Pride series repeaters are well-kept repeating rifles that do their job and do it well. Silas' only true precision weapon, it doesn't have the flash of the 7:12 or the raw power of Benedictions, but in many ways that makes it more dangerous. With enough power to punch through a chevalier's armor at range and enough accuracy to shoot where you point it, Silas' has seen hardened veterans sob in the mud after being brought low by proper Tevinter marksmen."
are misaligned.
I have no idea why. I was just testing it on a preview and this is the only part that won't preview correctly.
Swap the positions of the closing tags.
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