The way I see it is this. 80%+ of the world is anti-gay, anti-trans, etc... the only place that represents a general exception to this are first world countries. It's important to note that China and India who are not exactly the most politically correct nations in the world each represent roughly 1/3rd of the population, of the remaining third The Middle East, Africa, Russia, huge parts of the rest of Asia, and of huge parts of South and Central America tend to not exactly be gay friendly. Whites make a global minority, and really claiming that certain kinds of bigotry are unacceptable in 2015 is pure bunk since really the only ones who generally care are people in some first world largely white countries where the divide is about 50-50 despite a media hell bent on trying to make things seem more accepting. After all if there was some genuine super-majority on the side of the gay/trans population you wouldn't be seeing SJW crusades because everyone they could reach would already agree with them.
A lot of people won't like this point, and will likely misinterpret it, but the bottom line is that demanding complete and total media control on behalf of a group of people who represent a tiny minority and get offended is fundamentally ridiculous. I'm not saying that every production in the US should be engaging in some kind of "hate campaign" because of this reality, but at the same time it shouldn't be getting concerned because a small group of people feel victimized by a joke, that the overwhelming majority of people are going to find hilarious.
What's more this joke isn't even that bad, since your basically dealing with some dude who had sex with another dude without knowing it's a dude, when he's straight (like most people) and found that disgusting. It's not unreasonable. Anyone being made to have sex with something or someone they aren't "into" unexpectedly would probably feel the same way. Hold a girl who isn't into that at gunpoint and force her to have sex with horses on camera and there is a good chance she'll wind up contemplating suicide. Like it or not for someone whose straight having sex with a member of their own gender is equally repugnant, if you can't handle that not everyone is gay or bi, then get over it, the world isn't going to adjust itself for your innate "specialness". Feel lucky your in a largely white-run, first world country, with a large liberal population, and can thus complain over social media, through a lot of the world you could wind up in jail or be starring in the local equivalent of a Jihadi John video... in front of a cheering crowd no less.
I expect on this site of all places the point here will be misinterpreted, but the bottom line is that I get sick of the entitlement, coming from groups that themselves love to complain about "privilege" and "entitlement" when you see these kinds of complaints over things this petty. Especially when it comes to proclaimations like "It's 2015 you should be over this" that show a complete lack of awareness for the situation in a world where most people at most seem to play lip service to the concept of human rights, with comparatively few countries genuinely giving a crap as sad as that is in a general sense.
To be fair even with my general sentiments if the game was say giving you "good guy points" for helping to light gays on fire in public or something that would be going too far, especially given where the game is made. Of course comparatively few people would likely have a problem with that outside of countries like the USA, but that isn't the point because of where the game is made. But when it comes down to complaining about a joke which at most could be called "not politically correct" and even that's stretching it because one can't fairly expect someone to just think it's okay to be tricked into having sex with someone or something they aren't attracted to, or expect people not to be appalled after something like that... as a result it's fundamentally ridiculous, and my point is that such a small group of people are likely to have a problem with this in an overall sense that it shouldn't even be considered.
A lot of people won't like this point, and will likely misinterpret it, but the bottom line is that demanding complete and total media control on behalf of a group of people who represent a tiny minority and get offended is fundamentally ridiculous. I'm not saying that every production in the US should be engaging in some kind of "hate campaign" because of this reality, but at the same time it shouldn't be getting concerned because a small group of people feel victimized by a joke, that the overwhelming majority of people are going to find hilarious.
What's more this joke isn't even that bad, since your basically dealing with some dude who had sex with another dude without knowing it's a dude, when he's straight (like most people) and found that disgusting. It's not unreasonable. Anyone being made to have sex with something or someone they aren't "into" unexpectedly would probably feel the same way. Hold a girl who isn't into that at gunpoint and force her to have sex with horses on camera and there is a good chance she'll wind up contemplating suicide. Like it or not for someone whose straight having sex with a member of their own gender is equally repugnant, if you can't handle that not everyone is gay or bi, then get over it, the world isn't going to adjust itself for your innate "specialness". Feel lucky your in a largely white-run, first world country, with a large liberal population, and can thus complain over social media, through a lot of the world you could wind up in jail or be starring in the local equivalent of a Jihadi John video... in front of a cheering crowd no less.
I expect on this site of all places the point here will be misinterpreted, but the bottom line is that I get sick of the entitlement, coming from groups that themselves love to complain about "privilege" and "entitlement" when you see these kinds of complaints over things this petty. Especially when it comes to proclaimations like "It's 2015 you should be over this" that show a complete lack of awareness for the situation in a world where most people at most seem to play lip service to the concept of human rights, with comparatively few countries genuinely giving a crap as sad as that is in a general sense.
To be fair even with my general sentiments if the game was say giving you "good guy points" for helping to light gays on fire in public or something that would be going too far, especially given where the game is made. Of course comparatively few people would likely have a problem with that outside of countries like the USA, but that isn't the point because of where the game is made. But when it comes down to complaining about a joke which at most could be called "not politically correct" and even that's stretching it because one can't fairly expect someone to just think it's okay to be tricked into having sex with someone or something they aren't attracted to, or expect people not to be appalled after something like that... as a result it's fundamentally ridiculous, and my point is that such a small group of people are likely to have a problem with this in an overall sense that it shouldn't even be considered.
