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

The fact we're having this discussion is something. I disagree with BioWare being SJW and whatnot, but some practices are cringe-worthy and total pandering, and that seems to be their focus whenever they get some bad shit done. And no, people don't hate gay or whatsoever people. It's just BioWare making some stuff about being this and that, changing lore because political agenda, changing sexualities, writing common LBGT tropes, the "Hey, I am___!" and all other BS they can make up. Still, they're progressive, and that's a good thing. You don't see this much effort elsewhere in the game industry.

You can romance Morigan really early in the game as long as you don't use her as sqaud member

I prefer to live at the end that's why I always go with her to be honest lol

Oh they do and they're pretty scary. Browse through Neogaf and you'll see a bunch of them.

But the problem is that some people use the "SJW" term for everyone. Sometimes just for the fact that you're not racist someone calls you a SJW.

Well the case could be made that Iron Bull has lived so long outside of Qunlat that his views has been warped a bit. I mean he is almost a Tal Vashoth at the point we meet him in Inquisition, our decision might even make him one. It could just be him convincing himself its how it is so he can deal with living the way he does outside of the Qun. Also his name Hissrad, means liar, he could be lying. Sten is a warrior after all, he is blunt and tells it like it is. Iron Bull is a trained spy and liar.
Still they probably did a retcon, and not for the better and it is unfortunate. Great first post by the way.

Ah, the good old times of DAO, a dark and gritty Dragon Age game that wasn't afraid of anything while being it's own thing. Yup, good times. Agreed.

My reaction to the Jaal thing was the same as the two of you, and in general I really do see little but pandering to vocal minorities. Reducing the achievement requirement to two would not only have been the logical thing to do, saving presumably thousands of $$$s over their chosen option to re-write the character, but would have snuffed out much of the whingeing. I know the old adage that no publicity is bad publicity, but I really don't think Bioware can take any comfort from that at this stage. 

And, at the risk of inflaming some of the younger players' passions, I'll say it would also have helped the heterosexual players among us who will have to forego the romance medal as they cannot bring themselves to even look at Cora, nevermind romance her. The sound of her voice makes me nauseous, her hair is beyond troubling to a man of my age who had to live through A Flock of Seagulls and ABC first time around, and her Asari-obsession is frankly unbecoming for the (rumoured) daughter of a human-supremacist.

I indulged my closet inner-lesbian and romanced Peebee as Sara, fully intending to choose Suvi as a partner for Scott, and then I was already struggling to imagine who would be my third, with a minor character Asari-clone the most likely target. But then through all this fuss I learned that Suvi is exclusively gay, while Jaal wasn't allowed to be exclusively straight, and realized that I really don't care enough about any aspect of this game to bother playing it through twice anyway - at least not before there's an 'all characters bi' patch. 

I don't know if the reason for the ugly women is politically motivated or simply incompetence. I remember seeing the model on whom Sara is based and thinking I might have to redefine my own understanding of incompetence if that truly is the excuse. And I don't buy the argument that female characters are sooo much harder to 'get right', having played a little bit of DOA. I will never forget the first time I loaded the CC, as I recoiled in horror and disbelief, soon followed by gut-busting laughter as I shared the experience with friends - both male and female. I wasn't expecting (or wanting) DOA levels of sexiness, but would have settled for one or two of them resembling actual humans. This is a game. I make no apology for wanting my central female character to be pleasing to my eye. It's an RPG fantasy - no real humans can be hurt by what I might like to fantasize about. I don't think there's something 'wrong' with people who like the default Sara, I just think they must be in a different headspace from me when gaming. I don't want to play a character whose looks reflect an awkward, geeky personality, even if she can 'look fine', sometimes. I want strong and sassy, bordering on sexy when the occasion demands. I managed to create at least 10 FemSheps who managed to meet that requirement, and expected an improvement in MEA with more powerful hardware. I didn't get it, and anyone who thinks they did is delusional, aside from any debate about political agendas versus incompetence. Given Bioware's history, it seems like only the tiniest of conspiracy theories to propose that they listened a little too hard to the people who complained about the overt sexiness of Miranda, Samara and ME3-version Ashley and decided to 'tone it down' a notch or five. My only viable alternate conspiracy theory beyond the excessive incompetence one, is that the Andromeda Initiative was actually conceived as a cunning plan by the Illusive Man to rid the Milky Way of large numbers of idiots, misfits and in-breds, possibly including his own insufferable daughter. 

Personally, following on from that potential narrative, I'm far more bothered by Mac Walters' apparent hard-on for AI/Human Synthesis, as manifest in the Cerberus v2.0 version of humanity hiding its illegal AI experimentation from the other migrant species. The sidequest involving the 'terrorists', which ended with the murder of their ringleader was repulsive to me, especially from a studio which had previously given us Garrus's structurally similar loyalty mission in ME2, allowing Shepard to save the intended assassination victim. No such plot development for Ryder, because "why would anybody have a problem with AI?" I would say you couldn't make this shit up, but sadly Bioware did. 

Finally, for anyone who has waded through my ramblings, I'd like to ask: is "No bigots here" still how one of the dialogue options is summarized when in conversation with Jaal aboard the Normandy? That did perturb me a little in the context of the game and the other choices when I encountered it, in terms of any perceived 'SJW agenda', as by that stage I was already beginning to react a little to the Andromeda Initiative's 'Enforced Kumbaya' mood. 

I think we can all agree if they are well written and have a reason for being included in the story then by all means.  I think it's valid criticism to point out that shoehorning characters into said story to please a certain crowd is doing a disservice to everyone involved.

Yeah, I saved her and, as a bonus, was able to help her son as well. I found it to be a pretty good quest.

A. He's not "criticising free speech", like, at all (where did you even get that?) B. "if you disagree with me you're a bad person" is not an accurate or honest paraphrase of anything he said, and C. you've just gone and proved his point here, that you don't understand how free speech works: freedom of speech does NOT include a freedom from disagreement, criticism, ridicule, mockery, or judgment. Someone telling you that your arguments are crap, your ideas dumb, or your opinions ignorant (or immoral) is by no means violating your free speech. And obviously, you don't get to quack and waddle, then complain when someone calls you a duck.

Think he saying stop demonizing those you disagree with as scumbags and morons and actually listen to what they have to say.You might learn something.