I appreciate Square Enix supporting LGBT rights in FFXIV.

[Lunalepsy]

This thread is still here.
Happy Holidays!

[Lauront]

As someone that would fit into the LGBTQ community, this is why I disavow it, and distance myself from it like the plague. What drove me out of it was when ones sexual orientation was their defining trait, people got unnecessarily loud about their orientations and identities, and anyone that disagreed with the movement was considered to be an enemy, rather than someone on the fence. Worse yet is that somehow race was brought into it. You're 100% right on this, and I'll never associate with a divisive and intrusive movement like that again.

Same - it's why I never really refer to myself as such.

[Merrigan]

People are free to have their headcanon, that isn’t really the issue here. It’s people pushing the headcanon as factual when there’s very little that actually supports it.

People often try to create couples in games/movies. On FF we had the "couples" Aymeric / Lucia, or Thancred / Minfillia. For the first one, nothing indicates that there is more than a relationship of trust between two soldiers. For the second one, the majority of the indications tend towards a family relationship.

When topics were raised about these couples, very few people took offense at this tendency to "force" relationships. Overall, the reactions are always ten times more pronounced when it comes to theories about potential gay couples.

Without saying that it is homophobia, one can decently say that there is a strong paranoia towards LGBT "propoganda"... even when it is not necessarily present. And therefore disproportionate reactions.

[Sclair0]

I'm quite surprised reading through this that so many people didn't see the relationship as romantic in nature. Just seemed so explicit to me. (Especially with the contrasting of the Mitron/Logrhif stuff which seems to actually be explicit now)

But no doubt they don't actually say it out loud so there is room for interpretation there.

[IdowhatIwant]

Why did this get brought back up again?

[FrogDog]

Why did this get brought back up again?

Because I was bor....I mean because this is a very important topic.

[Theox]

This thread is a proof of how entitled western people are to think that everything in this world wants to automatically cater to their main popular agenda

[FrogDog]

This thread is a proof of how entitled western people are to think that everything in this world wants to automatically cater to their main popular agenda

Are you a weeb by chance?

[Theox]

Are you a weeb by chance?

I am not. Are you?

[FrogDog]

I am not. Are you?

Former. I guess you can say it's a constant recovery process though. Sometimes I worry it'll come back.