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robobobo said:
How will a random shop monkey wind up being misgendered? Think about it for a sec. In order for the "wrong pronouns" to come into use, people have to be talking about the shopkeep, in front of the shopkeep. Who's going to just park in a random fantasy store and have a conversation about the staff of the store, in front of them? It's a scenario that won't ever occur. Nobody's going to waste time in their game session having an in-character discussion about the random asshole you just bought some rations from. Anyone who thinks they will has clearly never once played in a RPG.
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... The player character could call them "sir" or "ma'am?"
 
That requires a player character having sufficient respect for a NPC shopkeep to address them politely, instead of putting a bucket on their head, stealing everything not nailed down, and stabbing them on the way out just for the hell of it.
 
Meowthkip said:
I don't understand how DnD isn't accessible to women, LGBT people and minorities. All you need is a group of friends, some manuals, dice, paper, pencils, and your imagination. You can really be whatever you want, if you're able to make stats for it, and do whatever you want. It's one of the most open-ended games you could possibly play and there's plenty of room for adding whatever you want.

How fucking lame and lazy do you have to be to think that it's somehow not inclusive enough?
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Minorities, trans, and women are merchandise whores and they basically get pandered to at the expense of the actual fans under the premise that they will buy ANYTHING with the brand's name on it if they shill to them hard enough. Because they are mindless consumer drones of the best kind while your actual base will not buy all the merch "just because" and will call out companies that whore out their brand like that.

Of course, "get woke, go broke" shows this to be a lie, but marketing continues to push the lie that blacks, trannies, and women are an "untapped market" that will mindlessly buy anything so long as they are made to feel like pampered princes/princesses at the expense of the existing fanbase.
 
MirrorNoir said:
Of course, "get woke, go broke" shows this to be a lie, but marketing continues to push the lie that blacks, trannies, and women are an "untapped market" that will mindlessly buy anything so long as they are made to feel like pampered princes/princesses at the expense of the existing fanbase.
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Even though it's only rich white people who think that, and actual minorities seem pretty skeptical of shitty media that's openly just trying to pimp them out for money.
 
AnOminous said:
Even though it's only rich white people who think that, and actual minorities seem pretty skeptical of shitty media that's openly just trying to pimp them out for money.
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Thus the "go broke" part. Aside from the various tokens the company will parade around, real people won't materialize to actually buy the LGBTQPOCetcetc stuff. They'll retweet about it and call it a day, or pirate it. Meanwhile some of the people who actually are buying their product will say, "Fuck this shit I'm out." Resulting in a net loss of business.
 
Meowthkip said:
I don't understand how DnD isn't accessible to women, LGBT people and minorities. All you need is a group of friends, some manuals, dice, paper, pencils, and your imagination. You can really be whatever you want, if you're able to make stats for it, and do whatever you want. It's one of the most open-ended games you could possibly play and there's plenty of room for adding whatever you want.

How fucking lame and lazy do you have to be to think that it's somehow not inclusive enough?
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These people usually dont have friends. So they go and play at D&D game nights at the local game/comic shop. Which usually attracts the same type of people, danger hairs, furrys, faggots, dude bros, autists, and any other cringe causing sub group. All these groups herd up as soon as they see they got back up. They then act like a cunt to everyone and wonder why they aren't accepted. As much as they say they want inclusiveness....they really suck at it.
 
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Meowthkip said:
I don't understand how DnD isn't accessible to women, LGBT people and minorities. All you need is a group of friends, some manuals, dice, paper, pencils, and your imagination. You can really be whatever you want, if you're able to make stats for it, and do whatever you want. It's one of the most open-ended games you could possibly play and there's plenty of room for adding whatever you want.

How fucking lame and lazy do you have to be to think that it's somehow not inclusive enough?
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You expect these whining pieces of genetic detritus to actually BUY the products they're bitching about, rather than just expecting their demands to be met, for fear of bad press? Here's an :optimistic: for you.

AlexGroans said:
Well, given the differences between 3.5e (4e is generally unpopular) and 5e are loosened the general rules, making bards the best and boring combat for everyone that isn’t a mage, I guess it was the fun sword-and-board violence that wasn’t inclusive
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Swords are phallic, and cisheteronormative! Not all men have swords! Some have front-sheathes, you bigot!
 
GarthVader said:
These people usually dont have friends. So they go and play at D&D game nights at the local game/comic shop. Which usually attracts the same type of people, danger hairs, furrys, faggots, dude bros, autists, and any other cringe causing sub group. All these groups herd up as soon as they see they got back up. They then act like a cunt to everyone and wonder why they aren't accepted. As much as they say they want inclusiveness....they really suck at it.
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TerribleIdeas™ said:
You expect these whining pieces of genetic detritus to actually BUY the products they're bitching about, rather than just expecting their demands to be met, for fear of bad press? Here's an :optimistic: for you.
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Ah shit, u rite, my bad.
 
J.K. Rowling Leaves Little Doubt About Her TERFdom (archive)
by Vivian Kane | 5:13 pm, June 25th, 2019

As many times as J.K. Rowling has already disappointed us (her retroactive Harry Potter queerbaiting, her defense of Johnny Depp, that time she said wizards used to just poop themselves all the time, etc. etc.), she still keeps finding new ways to fail her fans. Or rather, fans of her work,because I don’t really see many people calling themselves fans of her as a person anymore. Following TERFs on Twitter goes above and beyond the level of disappointment we’ve come to expect, however.

Rowling has been seen liking transphobic tweets in the past, though at the time, her rep said it was the result of “a clumsy and middle-aged moment and this is not the first time she has favorited by holding her phone incorrectly.” Now, though, she’s gone on a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist)-following mini-spree, meaning she’s choosing to introduce transphobic views into her timeline.

Rowling follows less than 700 accounts on Twitter, and she recently added the aggressively anti-trans YouTuber Magdalen Berns to that list. Berns, who has called transgender people “Blackface actors” has filled her YouTube account with videos like “There is no such thing as a lesbian with a penis” and “Misgendering is violence? Nah, mate!” and plenty of arguments over “genital preferences.” Her Twitter account is no different. It’s nothing but anti-trans bullshit.

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And that wasn’t Rowling’s only recent anti-trans follow. She followed Fionne Orlander, a transwoman who also identifies as male and spouts and retweets a lot of transphobic awfulness. She also followed Julie Bindel, who has written extensively for years against transgender civil rights.

A rep for Rowling told PinkNews in a statement, “J.K. Rowling won’t be commenting. However, we know she follows on Twitter a wide range of people she finds interesting or thought-provoking.” Anti-trans sentiments have established a stronghold in British feminism (as the NYT recently explored) and it sure seems like Rowling considers that movement “thought-provoking” rather than abhorrent, as one might hope.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, Rowling also followed a Johnny Depp stan account that leans hard into the anti-Amber Heard narrative.

Those appear to all be recent follows, but there are plenty more buried deeper.

For a lot of people, this will raise the question of what this means for their fandom. Can they still enjoy Harry Potter and the rest of that franchise? I’m of the strong opinion that yes you can and you don’t have to let this change your memory of what those books might have meant to you growing up (or still mean to you now).

However, if this sort of behavior upsets you, you don’t have to alter your past, but it’s probably worth thinking about your present and future. Meaning, what and who we choose to give our money to makes a difference, and we have the ability to, as they say, vote with our wallets.

If we buy the new books, see the new movies, play the new games, or buy the new merch, we’re not just giving money to a TERF (although we are doing that too). We’re giving money to someone with a gigantic platform who is serving to normalize transphobia for her audience, many of whom are young people.
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"For a lot of people, this will raise the question of what this means for their fandom. Can they still enjoy Harry Potter and the rest of that franchise?"

The answer, is, of course:
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J.K.Rowling is a bit of a woke crowd pandering hypocrite herself, so I don't feel too sorry for her, but man, the indignation of woke Harry Potter fans every time they discover she's a "TERF" or has done something else that's "problematic" is hilarious. Rowling needs to move on from Harry Potter, and so do the adults that still care so much about it
 
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Fairly sure she isn't exactly a TERF, though. But then again TMS calls everyone they dislike "men", "terf" or "alt-right", so whatever.

Also FUCKING LOL at them still insisting that not getting the m/m ship they wanted = queerbaiting. Or conveniently ignoring that it looks like it was Amber Heard who abused Johnny Depp (and all of his other exes PLUS his daughter supported him). :story:
 
Emperor Julian said:
Why would ever give a single shit about this even if I did like Harry Potter?
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Because they think that in order to enjoy a book and/or recognize it as a work of quality and literary significance, you have to approve of every single one of the author's opinions. It's a very childish mindset, but then again, most of these people are stuck in a state of permanent early to mid adolescence in a way
 
ATaxingWoman said:
Because they think that in order to enjoy a book and/or recognize it as a work of quality and literary significance, you have to approve of every single one of the author's opinions. It's a very childish mindset, but then again, most of these people are stuck in a state of permanent early to mid adolescence in a way
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Close, but not quite. They aren't looking to validate the author for having the right opinions, they view the author as the authority, and need all their opinions validated.

This only happens because they follow a heirarchy of authority. The top authority being the left wing media zeitgeist.

If the top authority contradicts them, they use doublethink to make it so that was always how it was.

These 'terfs' will be heroes to these same people eventually. And they'll have been on their side all along.
 
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Little Black Mermaid Haters, You Need to Let It Go

Since the news broke that Grown-ish actress and singer Halle Bailey was going to be starring as Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid,' the discourse has not stopped.
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TL;DR: Ariel's a mermaid, her race doesn't "matter". It's not "right" to compare Ariel to Mulan, Pocahontas and Tiana. Their is no "red head character genocide" going on.

Nevermind asking if they are the right person for the job and if Ariel’s race or ethnicity has anything to do with the story (it doesn’t), but it automatically allows people to troll and talk about how this is a loss and make comparisons about “well you wouldn’t feel this way if it was Mulan/Tiana/Pocahontas.”
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Ah, the Mary Sue.

If anyone ever says, "No opinion can be wrong", I point them that direction.

Of course they're defending black Ariel. From an argument that no one is having.
 
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