I appreciate Square Enix supporting LGBT rights in FFXIV.

[Araxes]

Why does everything in this game have to be sexualized? It is not a love Story. Not in the way you try to force it into. It is a tight Friendship. I really do not mind LGBT stuff or whatever, but i hate those who try to forcefeed it into my brain that they are LGBT and (insert random content) is LGBT in their head. I do not care what sexuality people are that i do not know.

By all the Gods this is getting out of hand.

[HollowedDoll]

You people are weird, seriously... To the point where I would 100% call the police if I saw any of you near my kids. Ryne and Gaia are both around 14yo, and you all can't seem to stop—somehow— seeing a sexual interest between them. From everything that we see, nothing points towards them having anything other than a deep bond and friendship going, and until something canonically says otherwise, that is a fact. I'm really disgusted by the way you people are behaving with this "shipping" stuff. By that same logic, Lyse and Papalimo probably were shagging eachothers brains out all day long, right? After all, friendship doesn't exist, it's all about sex— or so you creeps seem to think.

I mean this thread is a dumpster fire but why are we equating romantic interest to sex?

[LaughingBanana]

You people are weird, seriously... To the point where I would 100% call the police if I saw any of you near my kids. Ryne and Gaia are both around 14yo, and you all can't seem to stop—somehow— seeing a sexual interest between them. From everything that we see, nothing points towards them having anything other than a deep bond and friendship going, and until something canonically says otherwise, that is a fact. I'm really disgusted by the way you people are behaving with this "shipping" stuff. By that same logic, Lyse and Papalimo probably were shagging eachothers brains out all day long, right? After all, friendship doesn't exist, it's all about sex— or so you creeps seem to think.

Well, not that I necessarily agree that what happened between Ryne and Gaia is a romantic relationship, since it can also be viewed as friendship and I do tend to view their connection that way, but I don't think you are being fair here, to be honest. I don't think even the OP is told in a way that the OP wishes for us to get scenes of, crudely speaking, Ryne and Gaia having sex with one another.

Even if someone were to interpret their relationship as romantic, what makes you immediately think that they're thinking it in the terms of "Ryne and Gaia are shagging one another"? A romantic relationship can be also viewed in an innocent manner, like schoolgirl crush between two young people. Why does your mind immediately assume that people who want these two to be connected romantically only thinking about it in a sexual way?

Despite what you might seemingly think, people who like or love each other when they are in the same gender can do so without thinking about shagging and having sex with the other 24 x 7, you know, just like a romantic connection between people of different genders. That people want to see them together romantically doesn't necessarily mean that they're always thinking about Ryne shagging Gaia, you know, so it's a bit unfair that it seems like that is the point that you're so quickly jumping into.

[Ranaku]

Little disclaimer: I see every human being as exactly that, a human being with certain basic rights. Nobody should be harrassed cause of what they are. And that said...

I saw a rainbow some weeks ago, does that mean the light which breaks in the raindrops support LGBTQ rights? Jokes aside that crystal shows all elements which are in this order cause we know rainbows and in other combinations it would look odd in our eyes since we know our spectrum of light. I wish people would stop screaming for LGBTQ rep and stop sexualizing literally every and anything they encounter. Dunno what is wrong with people when their first thought when encountering a new character isn't what they are about but rather what sexuality they would like to see in them.

And i am in fact very gay myself and i guess it's just a silly wish to want a world where nobody gives a fork about stuff like that which would be a world in which we people would be truly accepted as what we are, just another person in a world of billions of people. That's why i don't like the LGBTQ "community" that much, screaming first for acceptance but then wanting special rep and we need a char that is so rainbow you can literally see he is part of the LGBTQ. And not noticing that this special rep shouldn't be special at all, it should be normal and we shouldn't care about it but people do and that's why we will always be this silly curiosity that needs special attention.

But hey people will always love stereotypes, so nothing will change and people will cry for rep chars and celebrate anything that looks close to a LGBTQ couple or a rainbow even if it's just a crystal combining the forking elements in the game. No notion of their character developement. No notion of any character trait other than the sexuality. Put a male roe in a dress and let him be a trans scion and the world would rejoice even if his character would be as flat as his chest.

[PeekayTom]

yall do realize that LGBT isn't inherently sexual right

like

seems like yall invent things to be mad at

[WoW]

yall do realize that LGBT isn't inherently sexual right

like

seems like yall invent things to be mad at

You know what grinds my gear? There is no H for homosexuals in LGBT!! Where is the H!?

[Ranaku]

yall do realize that LGBT isn't inherently sexual right

like

seems like yall invent things to be mad at

Gender and sexuality. It's not that hard to understand. And it makes no difference actually, if these are the only character traits you focus on you actually work against acceptance of LGBT people, since you make something that should be just normal into a special case. Like a endangered zoo animal that needs to put up on display to spread awareness. I wish it would be like for example our eye color, you don't go out and say "Oh this person has blue eyes that is so special we need more blue eyes in movie and games since it's a fairly rare mutation!". No blue eyes are widespread accepted and thus nobody gives a fork most times. Wish it would be the same with LGBTQ, nobody gives a fork and thus everyone can live their life in peace. But LGBT transformed from a movement into a lifestyle so i have no hopes anymore that this will ever change.

[Juzjuzz]

You know what grinds my gear? There is no H for homosexuals in LGBT!! Where is the H!?

Yeah we got lemon, ginger, bacon, tomato... It's weird...

[Awha]

Yeah we got lemon, ginger, bacon, tomato... It's weird...

We got room for ham.

[KizuyaKatogami]

yall do realize that LGBT isn't inherently sexual right

like

seems like yall invent things to be mad at

It’s moreso that people seem to keep trying to force things that aren’t there, and then shove it in people’s faces and state it as fact. It’s pretty bad when most of the people who are saying not everything needs to be lgbt and giving explanations are gay themselves lmao.