maxben said:
Because of course gays don't have families.
Never claimed that.
I don't see why responsible gay couples and their children must be subject to that filth! Sarcasm aside, I hope that you understand that your claim is part of the problem.
You do understand that America is only one of very few countries that see homosexuals as at the very least people right? In other parts of the world it is still A O-fucking-Kay to lynch/burn/beat up people for even exhibiting the signs of a gay person. So for a lot of the families in the world that is a fucking truth.
Anyhow, since Japan is relatively backwards on most social issues from race to sex I don't doubt that Nintendo is just not comfortable with homosexuality. I have no proof of that but it wouldn't surprise me. Sony is likely the same.
Your accusing me of making shitty claims and the you go on to make a shitty claim yourself.
How is Japan backwards when it comes to most social issues? I can understand race- but that literally comes with being a largely single demographic with very little mixing. Oddly enough though Nintendo has incorporated a lot more black people into their games over the years than the Western market does. Two (that number depends on what version you have.)of the gym leaders in B/W is black, in B/W 2 the Champion was black, and in X and Y ANOTHER gym leader is black. That's not to mention that the past 3 Elite 4 champions have been women and nobody has gone after Nintendo to do those things. They just did it. Hell FE Awakening even had two very prominent black characters- Flavia and Bastion. Nobody fucking questioned it, and nobody cried "shoehorned" either. Not bad for a country and a company where demographics other than Japanese make up only 1-4% of the entire population.
Meanwhile in the United States we have suits telling devs they can't make their characters women, or they can't put them in the front of the box art (something else Japan literally has no problems with.) Can't add more than one ethnic person per game unless people will question why they "exist" (because people other than white need a reason to actually be that ethnicity) so on and so forth.
Is that to say Japan doesn't have it's own issues? No.
But we are pretty fucking backwards (and hypocritical) ourselves when it comes to representing in games. Look how many people threw a ***** fit when Dragon Age had the audacity to make any player homosexual if someone so chooses. An option that you can ignore if your straight is still considered shoehorned. Meanwhile Japan itself has no problems making games like this on a yearly basis.