Mass Effect 2's Jack Was Supposed To Be Pansexual, Until Fox News Got In The Way

@djk9: how dumb is this comment?

So it's stupid for the left to complain about violence but not stupid for the right to complain about sex?

Also, the left pushed for a ratings board for video games to help prevent kids from seeing extreme violence or sexual content at all. No one is advocating for children to see dudes boffing each other.

@songokudbz: It's bait. Just a topic they decided to dig up to stir the pot of controversy. I mean, ME1 is 13 years old, made before the LGBT/SJW thing really blew up and became social media hysteria.

@songokudbz: *looks at the nearly 200 comments*

@rogerjunior: The term homophobic implies we are afraid of homosexual people, when in fact the truth is we really don't care when it comes to gameplay. Make your character gay, straight, pan, it doesn't matter to me, or most anyone to be honest. Are they a good character? And therein lies the conflation. Sexual identity is increasingly seen as a basis for determining what constitutes an interesting character today, but most fans aren't really concerned with what they do in the bedroom and with who as much as they are with what kind of person they are, their existential struggles, and how they grow from adversity to overcome obstacles.

@rogerjunior: Because most people here aren't actually being toxic. They're expressing their views taht this kind of baiting in articles is bad. That's not homophobic, it's recognizing that click bait on a 13 year old game where Bioware is now claiming they were "forced" to change their plans because of Faux News making an article is just trying to illicit a reaction.

IF Bioware had any stones, they would have followed through with their vision and been the tip of the spearhead, but instead they kowtowed to the media, that is if you actually believe their story. Personally, I think this is actually just them trying to get some virtue signal points right before they release the ME collection. I mean seriously, who was talking about Pan Sexual behaviors back when ME2 came out? Most people had never even heard the term at that point, let alone knew what it meant.

Finally let us not forget that Shepard him/her-self was technically pansexual because they could boff human or alien with gay options, so why is this Jack thing even a thing?

Just so much wrong with this article.

@rogerjunior: because freedom. If words hurt you, go away. That was always an option. And furthermore, it’s because of people like you that shallow articles like this get published...

@rogerjunior: Gamespot still believes in free speech and not in Censorship under the thinly veiled guise of private corporate policy???

@rogerjunior: I've read through 3 pages and don't see anything you're crying about, so they must be removing it.

Either way, just go back to your Tumblr bubble if your feelings are getting hurt reading words that you don't agree with.

@CyberEarth: Also, Shepard was basically pan sexual anyways so it's a non-starter. I mean you could boff aliens, if that's not the definition of pan sexual then I don't really know what is?

@gns: I'm a cast iron guy myself, but I like to dabble with some stainless steel when I'm feeling frisky.

@krazeekhujo05: Yes, you are correct.

@krazeekhujo05: You're making it overly complicated. The prefix 'Pan' means all. So in it's simplist term, Pansexual is someone who can be attracted to people of all genders and identities, (to also include individuals who do not specifically identify with any gender).

@krazeekhujo05: technically yes since you either have XX or XY chromosomes (some exceptions exist, but not enough to make an argument over), but "socially" it's a bit more complicated than that.

"Bisexual" means you prefer men and women. "Pansexual" means you like everything, from non-binary to men and women and transexuals and all that.

The way someone told me is this: pansexuals are attracted to people in general, and don't think that scientific definitions or social constructs should have any say in who they love.