Cis men not giving a single fuck about transphobia and the way it impacts trans people in a lot of places at this moment is the least surprising thing, even on Era. People die every day because of violent transphobia that is often made acceptable through jokes by fucks like Chapelle/Burr or just fear-mongering shit JKR. Swear to god, I'd wager most of y'all wouldn't be this quick to dismiss bigotry if it was any of the more "mainstream" ones, because you know it's fucking wrong & the years where making bigoted, harmful jokes that weren't frowned upon are long gone. Transphobia is honestly pretty mainstream as well at this point, but it doesn't impact most of y'all so it's easy to not give a flying fuck I guess.
Again, this isn't like some people nobody knows or cares about being transphobic. Even here in Germany I have seen a huge uptick in transphobia & TERFs in the news, social media and general society and you know what people they usually quote and support? JKR and Dave Chapelle. So do not fucking tell me separating the (alive!!!) artist from it's (literally bigoted) art is this holy thing that we all should practice more to be happy and not get harrassed, assaulted or worse.
(Unless you're talking about HP, then yes, although everyone seems to be wringing their hands about whether or not people are allowed to want to play the game and talk about it here when it comes out)
Nobody is wringing their hands about whether or not people are "allowed" to play HL or talk about it aside from people who act like they're being discriminated for being directed to one single OT at release like it was the case for Cyberpunk.
Unless mods have changed their stance on it since the last time they talked about it, they'll handle HL exactly the same. No hype threads, no review thread & just a barebones OT at release for people who desperately want to play the game & talk about it. I imagine there'd be critical threads allowed if it features any type of bigotry like it was the case with the excellent thread about CDPR's & Cyberpunk's transphobia, but otherwise that's it. This isn't to discriminate or otherwise make fun of the people who wanna play the game or anything, but done to support the trans community on Era, because I think you can understand why people would be uncomfortable coming on here & seeing tons of hype threads about a game that benefits a disgusting transphobe who's actions have actually harmed trans youth, right?
Also nobody can stop any of you from playing the game if you really want to. People didn't do it with Cyberpunk either. Lots of people absolutely can & will think differently of you if you play it & especially parade it around like it's the second coming of Jesus while conveniently ignoring the glaring issues behind it, but nobody can take away your copy & tell you to "Stop playing this game, Timmy, it's 9PM!" like a mum lol. People will be fucking fine. The internet is vast so if someone feels like they're being treated unfairly on here come release, they can also simply talk about it elsewhere!
