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Hey everybody, let’s please get back on topic. This thread is for you all to pose your questions about characters and relationships in Tyria to our developers. This is not a thread to discuss social commentary or the representation of certain types of people in the game with each other.
If you have a question related to the topic, please do ask it, but also please keep posts that are not questions to a minimum.
Thank you
Is ANet ever going to add a gay male couple to the world or maybe an important character that isn’t white?
Or they could just not bother representing either and continue what they were doing during GW1 without causing anything like this again. What I ask you is to leave your bubble and realise that LGBT is far from “underrepresented” nowadays.
I have no doubt that you are a straight white man and you clearly have no idea what under representation is.
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You see, my friends. With this whole “Oh, bring more homosexual couples”, “We need more relationships!”, “How about different race couples!” you just convince Anet to ruin GW2’s current state of story, lore and etc further. We don’t need more relationships. They won’t really add anything to the story or anything at all. They will just please those who are desperate for such a thing. So Anet will resort to doing unnecessary things.
For example. Many races are still unexplored (especially norn), dragon corruption is not even explained much (even with all the Priory scholars studying it for a while now) and there is more. Give us characters that will contribute to the lore more. We already understood that you want to impress LGBT and DN community, but it’s time to switch to something more sensible.
They could continue to explore the lore while simultaneously representing underrepresented groups. This game is already extremely white washed, and it pretty much only caters to heterosexual males. I’m sure the people at ANet are smart enough to be able to represent POC and the LGBTQIA while expanding the story. I’m not saying “OMG we need a /romantic/ living story update!!!!”, I’m saying “Hey, people who aren’t white exist and there are such things as gay men”.
There is definitely unequal representation when it comes to same-sex couples. As someone who is part of the LGBTQIA, it’s frustrating to see that ANet is perpetuating the fetishization of lesbian couples, but simultaneously, I like that they are representing them in a form of media that doesn’t usually cater to representing the LGBT. The real question is if the fetishization outweighs the representation, or vice-versa. Also, why are there no gay male couples? When are we going to get that? Is this a time where lesbians are more accepted than gay men? Or are they scared they will offend too many people? This just confuses me. I think the fact that they are including only lesbian couples is really just them catering to the straight men that play GW2.