FF14 director Yoshida asks fans not to “attack” Wuk Lamat actress

[Willemdarke]

I just find it extremely distasteful how one sided and hypocritical Sena's defenders are being.

That's the part that really bugs me.

The whole "us vs them", "black and white thinking" nonsense. I honestly feel silly that in every topic on this I feel the need to reiterate that I'm LGBTQ myself, lest I'm labeled transphobe too - and even then it's happened!

The hypocrisy is so staggering - within our own LGBTQ community we are actually pretty quick to call out problematic people be they artist, drag performers, or other public figures, because:
#1 Within the community, we can't and don't get labeled homo/transphobe, so we don't fear expressing our non-LGBTQ-related values and following a moral code we believe in and
#2 Those bad public apples represent us still and so they bring unneeded negativity to our whole community.

Yet, when controversy related to an LGBTQ person spills outside the community, it's like some people's moral codes cease to exist and they MUST defend the indefensible, just because it's "our people". (And half the time the defenders aren't even LGBTQ themselves!) No, honey.

Bigot is a bigot is a bigot, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, whatever.

Also, would actually transphobic people be mouthing off on the forums, if Sena wasn't such a toxic person stirring controversy and negativity? No. So why should trans members of the FF14 community have to come across and see this mess? They shouldn't. And they wouldn't, if Sena knew how to behave like a professional adult human on the internet and keep her nasty, rotten opinions to herself.

I don't follow her twitter and all I've seen have been posts of her linked by other people, so there's probably more, but she's advocated for biological woman to lose her job, she's called the FF14 community racists and transphobes, she's thrown shade at Imane Khelif during that whole mess at the Olympics, she's disrespected Christians (which I am one, shocker, I know, who knew gays can be Christian too?) and much more.

Don't defend the indefensible.