Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

  • CyanFen@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    I went to a comedy show in a somewhat “progressive” red area last night and the comic made a joke about pronouns (not in a negative light) but as soon as he mentioned pronouns pretty much the whole audience started booing at pronouns. It was pretty sad to see.

    I genuinely cannot understand why anyone gets hot and bothered over pronouns. It’s crazy. They’re crazy people.

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      10 months ago

      Because rather than have empathy for others and realize how their actions might affect others, they’d rather focus solely on themselves and make everything about them and how they’re inconvenienced.

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        10 months ago

        it’d make some amount of sense if they were actually inconvenienced but i’m still not understanding the inconvenience tbh

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          10 months ago

          It goes against their view that everybody is “normal” like them (white, cisgender, etc.)

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      10 months ago

      Because the american education system failed them and they don’t even know what pronouns are, they just know that someone told them that they have to hate it with a passion.

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      10 months ago

      They can’t understand it and their brains are small enough that not being able to understand something makes them mad.

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      10 months ago

      Subscribe to some conservative YouTube channels or Instagram accounts. Pronouns, LGBTQ, racec etc. are brought up and criticized CONSTANTLY.