Remember Dragon Age? Well, something happened.
Dragon Age II, or The New Queer Dragon Age. In a recent post I discussed the new “Equal Opportunity Romance” feature, and I was pretty happy about you and your avatar and other cute avatars that all had nice hair together. But a gay gamer for real (disclaimer: I don’t play Dragon Age II, sorry) started a petition against the writer of the game – for his portrayal of gay men. The complaints had something to do with hypersexualization:
It felt very odd that my male companions kept making passes at me, when I never found any interest or even flirted with them. This sort of thing shows that gays are unable to be normal people and think nothing about sex. This is the type of garbage that has people believe that gays shouldn’t serve in the military. We are human beings that are the same as everyone else!
But in the end, it turns out that might not have a lot of legitimacy as a claim. Apparently one gay male character can be described as “insatiable,” but the rest is just a chance situation where this person’s avatar might have just been really really really good looking. To read the full petition, go here. And if you’ve played, please let me know your opinion below this Daily Fix of Updates in the comments! It’ll be really fun for both of us.
So remember: along with fighting pretend dragons and monsters and whatever, you may have to sometimes weather some gay stereotypes. Or not, depending on who you ask. Sometimes life is rough. I still love you.
