That's not quite right. According to the post, we're *lead* to believe that she's bi, but in reality she was fetishizing the female form in response to apparent daddy issues that eventually became a distracting habit. Not completely unlike a girl that makes out with other girls at parties and ends up getting flustered around girls without being ROMANTICALLY attracted to them. I've known numerous girls that have temporarily claimed to be bisexual before realizing it was just a phase.LifeCharacter said:The reality is apparently that she's bisexual, which we supposedly know immediately, and who spends all her time flirting with girls, but somehow she starts fainting at the sight of them. So she goes to your male character for help, who then drugs her so she sees him as a girl so she can get more comfortable with the gender she apparently flirts with constantly. Afterwards, she's better and loves your character. Also, the supposed bisexual can't be romanced by the female Avatar, because that's just too much gay. And this is the version we're supposed to believe based off of an unsourced imgur post.
So, what I gather from this is that, if we are to believe the latter is true (I say believe because, you know, saying how wrong other people are doesn't exactly mean you yourself have proof), people were getting upset for the wrong reason. They should have been upset for basically making a bisexual character whose bisexuality is reduced to shallow flirting with other girls before she runs back to the boys for real romance.
Have you forgotten that this takes place in a medieval fantasy? You may as well act shocked that gender roles exist in the FE universe.LifeCharacter said:The harmless, culture-specific trope that girls being attracted and flirting with other girls is something for children that you grow out of when you become an adult and that, if you don't, you're just immature (or you just have some problem with men that the right man can no doubt fix)? Should I even be surprised that looking at things through the lens of "treating homosexuality as a phase you must grow out of is bad" is now just progressivist American and stretching it?Marxie said:Not happily accept, no, but look at them in their own context, try to understand the issue and give them the benefit of the doubt.
And we're talking about a harmless culture-specific trope that can be framed as something terribly wrong only if looked at in a very specific way through the glasses of a progressivist American. That's really stretching it.