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MTOF: Elves are gender-swapping reincarnates and I am on board with it
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<blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 7428466" data-attributes="member: 1964"><p>I dunno . . . to me, Red Sonja being simulaneously hypersexualized and sexless is pandering. Old-school half-orcs where the default origin story was "rape" is pandering. As much as I love Robert Howard, all of these stories where the purest-blooded white guy crushes the enemy and hears the lamentations of the women are pandering. Lovecraft's paranoid obsession about racial corruption is pandering. Tarzan and the Phantom showing the people of Africa how it's done is pandering.</p><p></p><p>And a lot of stuff that could have been written off as "pandering" at the time, or that looks clumsy or cringey in hindsight, might be the first step towards something more substantial. Maybe Uhura was tokenism, but the lead of the new series is a black woman. </p><p></p><p>This game is not thriving by keeping us middle-aged grognards in our comfort zones, man. It's supposed to be about telling stories . . . there are more stories to be told than "white guy's Hero's Journey," with non-white guys as flavor or opponents or sidekicks and women as the prize.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JPL, post: 7428466, member: 1964"] I dunno . . . to me, Red Sonja being simulaneously hypersexualized and sexless is pandering. Old-school half-orcs where the default origin story was "rape" is pandering. As much as I love Robert Howard, all of these stories where the purest-blooded white guy crushes the enemy and hears the lamentations of the women are pandering. Lovecraft's paranoid obsession about racial corruption is pandering. Tarzan and the Phantom showing the people of Africa how it's done is pandering. And a lot of stuff that could have been written off as "pandering" at the time, or that looks clumsy or cringey in hindsight, might be the first step towards something more substantial. Maybe Uhura was tokenism, but the lead of the new series is a black woman. This game is not thriving by keeping us middle-aged grognards in our comfort zones, man. It's supposed to be about telling stories . . . there are more stories to be told than "white guy's Hero's Journey," with non-white guys as flavor or opponents or sidekicks and women as the prize. [/QUOTE]
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