The Character Romance thread (Official)

As a straight chick, I can confirm this.

It's not like making her gay would improve anything with her comments. I don't imagine a bunch of gay friends sitting around, berating each other about not contributing to the survival of the species. Unless they're like, being sarcastic or referencing this game or some similar thing.

Okay... I hope you don't mind, moderately incensed firmicute if I weigh in on this and try to clarify things a bit.

Over in the new notBSN thread I shared an anecdote about something that happened to me on this site. There's a reason I posted it there but chose not to share it here (and I'd like to leave it that way), but if you didn't read it, it's under my same name and avatar if you're curious. But it lead to a discussion how memes making light of things like autism and PTSD (where the term 'triggered' comes from) can be hurtful, even if they're not intended as such. Yes, these terms get over-used to the point where they've become something of a joke, quite literally in this case. But just because there's a few self-diagnosers looking for attention on Tumblr, or some misguided celebrities stating they think they might have autism because they're a little social awkward, shouldn't make it okay to trivialize a condition that makes life really challenging for some individuals. The fact that 'triggered' has become this catch-all term for people not liking something doesn't mean there aren't people out there suffering from PTSD, where being triggered sends them down a hell-spiral of inescapable thoughts that makes it almost impossible to function. I speak from experience on both accounts.

Now, the 'triggered' memes don't bother me much personally (and I'll admit, the idea of Jill getting all worked up over some overt gayness is pretty damn funny).... but 'autistic screeching' and 'REEE' memes absolutely do. So I try not to use the term 'triggered' lightly. Just as I stopped using 'retarded' as a synonym for 'stupid' when I realized it was offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. Why, when in the dark ignorant days of my youth when I occasionally used 'gay' as a slur, only to learn it was offensive to gay people, I went 'oh, well shit,' was rightly ashamed, and knocked it the fuck off.

Anyway, the point of all this being, if LGBT posters here are going to (rightly) ask for more sensitivity toward matters that affect them, perhaps we should all try to be a little more sensitive to others we might be unintentionally offending.

/PSA.

Sorry for the detour everyone! I'd like to weigh in on the MakeJaalBi situation as well, but I'll do so in a separate post.

Again, to point to the obvious, when there are protests about reviving people from stasis, the idea that people should be doing their "duty" in procreation is outright ludicrous.  Make sure you have a working colony (not just an outpost) before the kids come.  Might have been a plot that worked better in MEA2 *after* Ryder and Gil are already an established couple.  It would still have to be tweaked and might stem more from the desire of the boys to start a family and Gil's best friend agreeing to be their surrogate.

One of the many,many things I find annoying about Jill is that they give you a dialog option to tell Gil you think that way Jill teases him about his failure to procreate is shitty and abusive, so there was some awareness on the writer's part that this was, in fact, shitty and abusive. And then they have Gil assure you that it's totally okay. But, I'm sorry, it's not okay, and I feel extra bad that Gil has internalized this to the point where he just accepts it.

BioWare keeps us so well informed.

Well "sooner than months" should mean within the next two months, at least?

If it's after 1 month, but still lands in the middle of the second month, isn't that still less than two months?