Breaking Canon

A core underpinning principle of the Qun is that they do it for the good of the people they are subjugating. By the logic of the Qun, they are doing you a favour.

But SirPetrakus is being, as usual, insincere and sloppy in order to make a bad faith point. The Qun have dedicated facilities for their breeding programs, and separate dedicated facilities for having sex for pleasure. Whether what goes on in those counts as "rape", it's hard to say, but I find them suspect.

But a violent crime that serves no purpose is unacceptable under the philosophy of the Qun. Remember that Sten was willing to allow himself to die horribly, as he perceived it as a fitting punishment for killing innocent people in a fit of rage. The supposedly inborn "savagery" of the race formerly known as the Kossith is precisely what the Qun philosophy is designed to eradicate, after all.

Well, in that case, I'd be happy to be put down, wouldn't I? Might as well jump on those Qunari swords, Thane style. Every side that starts an expansive war believes the lives of the ones they are subjugating will be better. The Romans did it, the Greeks did it, the Persians did it, the Germans did it, the Russians did it, the British did it, the Americans did it. Everyone did it. And guess what, none of those governments made distinctions of the subjugated populations for LGBTQ+ members. Do you think in DS9 the Cardassians made exceptions for LGBTQ Bajorans? Do you think that terrorist in the Middle East kill people in the name of trans rights? No. These people aren't tolerant, they aren't inclusive and sure as fuck don't stand for trans rights. And I could believe that the Qunari are the "good guys", if Bioware hadn't consistently portrayed them as secular, violent, warmongering death machines. Also, if you want to engage in dialogue, quote me next time.

I'm not American, the existence of Black people in Europe in the middle ages and even before then is well documented, I didn't make any comments about diversity in rural Europe, I said having one black character is just as theoretically plausible as the content of the plot, which hinges on excessive contrivance as it is.

None of that stops Rowling from doing or saying anything, people have the right to do whatever they want with books they own, and her wealth and privilege will continue to protect her from ever having to face anything approaching a real consequence for anything she ever says or does.

I have never said or thought that you want to "burn bis at the stake", I said your arguments were a smokescreen for bigotry, and I hold to that. There's an entire spectrum of bigotry between "thinks gays should all be murdered" and "actually treats them with equal respect and dignity, rather than just claiming to online", you fall short of the latter. Where, precisely, I haven't decided.

You misunderstand my position. I've no intention of dictating how you should or should not feel. I do not take your feelings into account at all. I simply do not care. As far as I'm concerned, your position has as much merit as that of the anti-vaxxer, or the flat-earther. Which is to say, none at all.

All fiction is contrivance. Literally, it is contrived, by the strict dictionary definition of the term. The addition of further contrivance is a neutral proposition, whether a particular addition hurts or harms a story's quality is determined by other factors, and purely a matter of personal perspective in any case.
No, women don't deserve rape threats. They don't automatically deserve a platform to share hateful rhetoric either, and they don't deserve to bully colleagues with impunity either, for any reason. Forstatter wasn't "bullied out", her employers declined to renew her contract because she WAS a bully. She dragged her personal politics into her work by refusing to respect a colleague's gender identity, despite repeated requests. She was unprofessional in the actual definition of the word, not your definition of "putting people I don't like in a game that I play". Contract workers aren't automatically entitled to renewals, I should know, I am one. You can be denied a contract renewal for any reason, or even none at all. Everyone has to moderate themselves at work, it's the social contract.

No trans person anywhere on Earth is saying that biological sex is not real. Either you don't understand the argument or you are misrepresenting it deliberately. Doesn't matter which. Your argument lacks merit because it ignores the observable reality, backed by hard data, of who is *actually* doing violence in women's bathrooms (spoiler alert, it's not the transeseseses). Psycho and Silence of the Lambs may be good movies, but they aren't based in anything remotely resembling reality. You are of course, entitled to feel however you want about whatever you want, regardless. Heights have never attacked me in the bathroom, but I'm still scared of them.

And I stand by it. Minor characters don't require a lot of time to spent on them. And the whining proved they wouldn't be satisfied. Emotion doesn't enter into it.