I fail to see how this game is "sjw propoganda"

SJW? Nope don't see it! Give your head a shake people. It's one thing to say that you don't care if it's there or even that you want it there. But to say you don't see it?!?! This is why people can't have honest conversations anymore.

How many Manveer Heir references does it take to get to the center of the thread, the void from which no light escapes.

3, according to the highly educated owl.

Welcome to the forum.
Disagree with most of what you said, but it was well articulated, thanks for contributing to the discussion. 

Gil is basically a checklist to be ticked off in my opinion. Gay, female best friend, wanting to be a parent, becoming a parent with female best friend. In short, gay cardboard. I'm not gay, bit when I first played the game I was dismayed by how he turned out to be. I felt him to be an insult to the LGBT community. I would be interested in how LGBT people reacted to Gil's presentation.

Look at the rest of the videos these guys posted. They're stewing in their hatred for "the other". It's not about the game, as you can see in politics on a daily basis. Social hatred for everything that isn't perfectly in line with their own perception, Islamophobes, Homophobes, Xenophobes. They only project their general hatred on the game, fueled by the fact that they finally get some clicks when they slap the label Mass Effect on their otherwise hardly watched videos.

Baghdad Bob: "There is no SJW in MEA!"

Edit:  Someone generate a meme with Baghad Bob pictured on it.  

You might be right about some of the representation being "shallow" but if trans and LGBT representation was so common and unremarkable as to be called "generic" then nobody would be singling bioware games out and criticizing it for having them. It'd just be one out of hundreds of other generic games with trans characters, and so nobody would care.

The reality is that bioware is one of the very very few game companies that include positive or neutral characters of these types, which is why people do care.

And they have a history of inclusivity ranging back to many of their past games. I don't see why this would have only started affecting their games quality now.

He writes a tome because there are too many women (I'm sorry, "females") in power in his video game, and not enough white people around? L M A O. Apparently he can't enjoy a fantasy space that doesn't perfectly replicate the irl hegemony that favors him. yet SJWs are the only crybabies in gaming who can't handle their shit. Got it. Well, MRActivist, the cool thing for you is that this is a video game you can put down whenever you want: men and white people still run pretty much everything in the western world. You have the power, and there are plenty of games out there to reify that for you. So your 90 hour nightmare is over.

This thread has a virtue signaling level of over 50,000.

That is because some people's definition of "sjw" is as broad as the pacific ocean.  I will probably get called one just for starting this thread and saying I don't see an "sjw conspiracy" in the game.  To me an "sjw" is someone that takes it too far like Anita Sarkeesian. To them an "sjw" is anyone that doesn't get triggered over a little variety in the game.

The lack of disabled people in the game is not "SJW"-related. For one, how many video games represent disabled people? I can't think of even one with a disabled person. For two, those who champion inclusion in media typically see disability as part of that. I also don't think those who champion inclusion in media typically approve of whitewashing racial minorities. Though you are correct there, I think: this game includes difference without acknowledging difference, and that is a big problem..

But I think that it is too easy to pin the blandness of this game and its characters on this, or on the fear of offending. Whoever said it reads a little like fanfiction is accurate imo--to me it's just a consequence of mediocre writing, that's all. Writing dialogue in particular is a skill that requires a certain degree of inuitive talent to execute well. And in scripts, character is mostly built and developed in dialogue. Weak dialogue game will lead to weak characters. They just didn't have their best writers on this game. That's how I see it.