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

I wouldn't go that far. SJWs are a thing and are a problem they just not as widespread as people believe.  Remember the big debate aboutJaal after the patch?  People was giving good reasons as to why they thought making Jaal bi was a mistake or a misuse of resources but instead of giving reasons as to why they disagree they just decided to label us bigots. Being an SJW don't make you none racist,  sexist,  ect it makes you a close minded fool who label those you disagree with the worse kind of person because you have no argument  and all they are doing is creating more haterd and resentment. I say this as a black man, SJWs are no better than a actual bigot.

Honestly, the writing in this game is so bad it can only be labeled Tumblr fanfic propaganda.

Personally, I thought the more interesting aspect of Steve is that for FREAKING ONCE, we got a fighter jock pilot who isn't a shameless adrenaline junkie. Steve has a bit more depth then I think you're giving him credit for. See his friendship with Vega, his almost ridiculous reliability, and yes, his grief.

His whole character isn't 'based on being gay'. Maybe 'based on dealing with loss', but Steve's personality wouldn't have changed if Robert was a Roberta and he was an option for femShep instead.... And say, Joker was maleShep's backup Kaidan.  I mean, yes, he has a case of Carth syndrome, but that's not exactly rare. Or his whole character.


All that being said, I think we can both agree that a character who seems to just be written to check a box isn't good. I strongly disagree that Cortez is one, and frankly think Bioware usually does the whole representation thing pretty well. Not great, and sure, there's room for improvement (and subtlety), but sheesh.

Archive of Our Own fanfic?

No, SJWs have their issues too. I never said they didn't. I said that it's pretty easy to recognize that a lot of the people crying out about SJWs are on some kind of a hate wagon. Not all. In some cases it's lack of understanding. Like for one, I would not say that gay males wanting a decent romance (which actually existed within the game before they changed it for whatever reason) makes them SJWs and labeling them as such is shitty. They are not SJWs but gamers who happen to be gay who want and deserve just as much as non gay gamers to have a romance that doesn't look like it was written in a 25 min session (which Gil is kind of that - I mean he's not even a very well developed character). If you are labeling them as  SJWs then that's exactly what I am talking about. They deserve just as much as anyone else to have a decent romance. They are consumers just as much as any other player. I'm  personally not a fan of them changing Jaal and do agree that it should have been handled better and spending resources on it when there are other game issues probably wasn't the best plan (because the plan should have been to not give that demographic one sub par romance and to keep jaal as  bi if he was written that way). the fact that you label them as SJWs is the precise issue I am talking about. It should have been handled properly from the start. But failing that,  BW should correct it because gay males pay as much for the game as everyone else and it's part of the reason they buy  the games. I suppose I now would fall into the category of being an SJW as well, which frankly I don't care about. I do care that people are treated equally and fairly. If you had only one sub par romance and you played in part for romances, you'd  want them to fix it too. But they get labeled SJWs for wanting what they want.

So like us. 

It's not about some bright example that stands out, it's just the impression I got after completing the game. It's how the game feels, its atmosphere, and I can tell that the game was made by SJW's. It's how all the characters including Ryder talk, how they think, how they act, their mentality, in every scene from the beginning of the game till the end.

It's really more art.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that MEA is "sjw propaganda", but Bioware did put in some things that didn't have any other purpose other than to pander to some specific parts of fandom. Like the Asari pronoun thing that came out of nowhere, Angara apparently seeing gender with fluidity or whatever, a trans character who felt the need to inform you of her being trans at the first opportunity (I know they've changed it a bit, but that's how it was shipped anyway). And the Jaal thing of course. I don't hate the game, but those devs are hopeless. I find it funny and sad how they wanted to show how ~progressive~ they are, but, paradoxically, failed to notice that the gay players had less romance options than others.

Not a good enough reason to change a character post-release, especially in a patch, imo. Why not remove the achievement or reduce the required romance number to two? Wouldn't have had to waste the resources that way, at least not as much. Or why not add an entirely new romance option or make another character romanceable, someone who wasn't straight at the release? And I don't remember the devs stating this as the reason they did it, IIRC the patch notes just said that they came to the conclusion that it "made sense" for him.