psijac said:
They NEVER said gays don't exist in the Star Wars Universe. They said the labels for gay people don't exist.
During a press conference for Star Trek: TNG Someone once asked "Surely by the 24th Century they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness" Gene Roddenberry replied, "No, by the 24th Century no one will care"
although on the other hand if space is our Manifest destiny Gays have no place there. We need settlers and squatters to build lands, have kids and generally settle a place down. Even if a gay couple wanted to have kids I don't they will have room for an invitro clinic when settling a wild planet
Because gays cannot contribute anything to society if they can't have kids. =_= Gee thanks.
I don't care that BioWare isn't including orientation labels in their games. I get frustrated at labels too. What concerns me is that while this is OK, if they also intentionally do not include any male-male romances, then they have basically affirmed that such relationships are either unimportant, inferior, or even worse: offensive (and I believe they only included a lesbian relationship because their target audience find that titillating).
For Mass Effect BioWare said they didn't include gay relations because they had the least appeal and because they did not feel they could portray them realistically. I think that if BioWare is going to make any claims to approaching sex artistically and being a great storyteller, then they need quit making excuses and step up to the challenge.
It is EXTREMELY easy to plop in a single line of dialog hinting at male-male relations--or attraction, at least! There is no excuse.
I do not want to dictate how BioWare can be creative but if they are going to decide gay content on the basis of market appeal and essentially perpetuate the idea that people like me are second-class, then I'm going to question their ethics.
I am sick of the way this industry makes claims to being centered around an artistic medium but all it's concerned with is marketing and business.
