@aluminumandroid In addition, how can a gay person receive preferential treatment? That's pretty oxymoronic, considering that they tend to be embraced with apprehension and even malice. It's not preferential treatment when there is such a strong societal undercurrent encouraging the exact opposite (hate, fear). If anything, it's an attempt to undo an imbalance that exist in the first place, not the other way around. Until that balance is better set into place, people are gonna continue to bring attention to the subject, which stems from that imbalance.
@aluminumandroid If that's the case, then perhaps you should find a way to word your comments differently. Based on your responses, you came off as someone who is self-centered and unaware of what goes on out there in the world. Even now you sound like someone trying to validate your viewpoint by stating how much of a generous person you are. If you really have strived to get to where you are, and fought through muddy waters to do so, I don't understand how you could talk about people not having drive or ambition, rather than acknowledging the fact that people do experience strife in their lives to the point of labeling them as someone without drive is a slanted way of viewing people in general. For someone who has is allegedly so seasoned as yourself, one would expect you to be of all people to be able to relate to the fact, rather than looking down on others while on the way out.
@spitfire It's not just african americans that get caricatured in video games, it happens with people of Latin and Asiatic descent as well. When addressing those things it's important to recognize other minority groups who experience the same thing, otherwise you risk making things divisive.
By they I mean Poison and Roxy. Anyhow, all signs seem to point to her actually being female when you take into account that she was created by a Japanese company with the intention of her being female, and that Final Fight was initially released in Japan with her being female. The only reason she was considered being termed transgender was because of politics, a means for Capcom to bypass some of the criticism without having to go back in and change the game. When that was deemed to be not enough, they decided to omit them altogether (Poison and Roxy) and replace them with Sid and Billy. To me that strongly supports the fact that they are indeed female, and were only considered being made trans (considered not actually becoming) for political reasons, not creative ones.
@aajep From what I read, in Japan they were always female. Then when it came to localization, there was an issue over having them stay female and there was possible worry over people suing. So they bounced around the idea of saying that they were transgender to avoid the issue. That idea was a no go, and they eventually were replaced on the Snes for Sid and Billy. As a result of all of that, the situation took a life of its own, and people began joking about her identity while others pressed the idea that she was transgender period. Which snow balled into those same jokes and beliefs that people have about her today.
@aluminumandroid I guess I wouldn't expect someone as simple-minded and full of themselves as you to understand the idea. You sound like someone who has had everything laid out for them, because I wouldn't expect someone who doesn't have it easy to speak in such a condescending way. You speak of contributing. Contributing to what? This proverbial pot you speak of is nothing but fallacy. In this day and age, in this society, the general mind-set that people have is doing that which serves to satisfy themselves, and has nothing to do with contributing to any kind of greater good. So you can delude yourself all you want, and play up to false semantics all you want. Your statement lacks substance, and is just a way for you to feel as if you're doing something that has significance for anyone other than yourself.
@atragon A person with a "minority viewpoint" has every right to vocalize their opinions, especially when they relate to real world issues. Maybe if you weren't so closed in and reclusive to the circles you stick with, and payed attention to the world around you, you'd be a sharp and wise individual.
@AluminumAndroid Even if one isn't a "productive member of society", people should still be respected. Your stance stems from nothing but an elitist and slanted viewpoint. How "productive" can a person be when no one wants to hire them based on how they look or talk, compared to someone who is readily cut from the same cloth? So long as a person is a decent individual at their core, that is what matters, and we should take it from their, not make hasteful judgments based ego-centric ideals.
@Morphine_OD Your pseudo logic does nothing but derail any true discussion. Yes he identifies himself as being female, and would like to be seen in that way. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't identify with dynamics that present themselves when comparing himself to a figure, albeit fictional, that he can relate to. It's not a either or thing. It's all encompassing.
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