Yeah because it is. That still is not him saying "Because I hate gays." The same thing is happening in Star Wars and Mass Effect and Movies and everything. With Gender, Race, Sexual Preference, and all in between. Star Wars currently is blaming white men for their latest movie doing terribly. The directors and producers are pointing at the fans and claiming, "Well they just aren't comfortable with Strong Women taking the lead." No. That's not it. They wrote a shitty storyline and shitty scenes. Fans have loved badass women in movies and games for quite a LONG time now. Princess Leia for example. We liked her not because someone said, "Look! She's a woman! And strong!" We loved her because she was badass, a capable leader, could throw one liners back at Han all day, [i]choked fxckin Jaba out,[/i] and looked great doing all of it. Rey on the other hand? I think she's cool. I [i]want[/i] to connect with her, but they are writing her terribly. She didn't train with a light saber, didn't struggle to grasp the force, she just popped on the scene and did it all. Essentially we are being [i]told[/i] to just accept that she's a badass, but rarely see her fail or learn to overcome. Luke could barely stack rocks with the force, she just heaves them up with zero training. It leads to shitty writing, which is what everyone got with the Last Jedi. A 2 hour long spaceship chase, a meandering plot that accomplished nothing, and a poor take on the lore. We've loved strong characters forever, no matter what style they came in. [i]Most especially[/i] in gaming. We loved raiding tombs and figuring out puzzles with Lara Croft, but all the feminists cared about was that she had disproportionate tits and looked great in shorts. We didn't hammer game after game just because Lara looked good. There's porn for that. Even the newest version of her was ridiculed for making her skinny! Wtf!! We got to see her go through trauma of going from a survivor to a tomb raiding villain slaying machine, we were there to see her shoot a guy in the face and gag because of it. But when these political agendas come into the scene to "educate" us, the focus shifts to "look how Woman she is! Look how she can punch guys! Look how gay she is! See!! Look! Look how Black she is!" We do, not, mind and we do, not, care. Blade was black. We loved him because he was a vampire slaying ninja. And great! Hell yeah, he was black! Awesome. Aloy was a woman. We loved her because she ventured out where her people wouldn't go, and stood up against people thinking she was a freak with no mother. She uncovered not only the huge revelation of her own origin, but the origin of the [i]entire world she lived in.[/i] She did amazing shit along the way. And yet I'm terrified of what this "narrative" you advocate for wound do to these characters and their amazing stories. If they remade blade in today's time, dollars to doughnuts they would shift the focus away from the lore of the underground Vampire threat, and onto social issues concerning police violence and hate crime. The vampires would be white, and it'd show flashbacks of him being bullied for being black. Totally ignoring the war on humanity from Vampires. I'd be fine with Aloy being gay, but I'm scared they would take her amazing story of the end of the beginning, the machines, the tribes... and turn it into some political saga focusing on her sexual preference and make her into a character that only means as much as who she sleeps with. Fxck the machines, fxck the war of the tribes, to hell with her fending off the threat of technology wielding zealots. We'd just get to save her female non binary lover from hulking white tribesmen that want to feed her to a scrapper. This is what is so hard about getting this across. Because when gamers go into uproar about these "equality" agendas, it makes us sound like we are against Gay, or Female, or Black or whatever. We're not. We just don't want these stories sacrificed just to tell a story about some political injustce. We've been ahead of the curve long before Sarkisian and these other fxcks came along. We've been kicking ass with Bayonetta and popping caps with C.J. in a gang war in GTA. We've been rocking Dark Elf mages that were female, and posting fan art of Sarah Kerrigan as the Brood Queen. Ana Bray [i]could have been that[/i]. And she could have done it and been as gay as she liked. If the focus of her story was her exploits as a gunslinger, or how she turned the tide at Twilight. Or if the [i]Campaign itself[/i] would have shown her in action, if that story had been developed into something like Aloy's or Princess Leia's... we'd have tossed her 46 rainbow colored engrams. Instead, we get no insight on her character other than she has a girlfriend who helped her do some tech stuff to unlock some files about some Bray something and Warmind something. And they kiss. And she feels sad now that her girly died. Instead of using the comic (or better, the story IN THE GAME) to better develope the over arching story of Destiny? We get a bland romance just for the sake of saying gay is okay. But when gamers protest shitty stories told on behalf of political reasons, [i]we[/i] get pointed to as bigots. Carry on. From now on, instead of building compelling stories around the battle of Dark and Light, the Iron Lords, The Vex, the Warmind, and legends we've only read about, let's just focus on how gay or black or non binary someone is, or how Efrideet gets paid less than Saladin for running Iron Banner.