Open letter to Square Enix and Yoshi P

[george357]

omg the woke are pissed off and attacking the forums where their was no trouble before and calling out square/enix to do their bidding.

[Lunalepsy]

Hello Square Enix and community,

Today I am taking the time to write this open letter to Square Enix and Yoshi P in order to see if they can take some more precise long term measures than they have been taking so far regarding the alarming prevalence of homophobia and transphobia in the game.

My suggestion at least in the short term while developing machine learning algorithms to detect homophobia and transphobia automatically, is that they should announce the measures they are taking against homophobia and transphobia.

What would this mean in practice?

Initially the idea is to have multiple announcements and statements on FF14’s social networks regarding the measures of a permanent account suspension of users who engage with harassment of trans and queer folks and go weekly or monthly giving reports of the amount of players permanently suspended for such their bigotry.

Within the game before logging into the game, a pop-up message should appear stating that anyone who harasses others on the basis of gender identity, race, or sexuality will be permanently suspended.

This with the colors and in the specific way that is well known to instill some fear to generate crisis among the bigoted alt-right playerbase and at least would be a start in the short term considering that the last few years the ToS has been simply useless in combatting bigotry in the game and on the forums.

Best regards.

Oh, it's Ativan! Love your content. It's fantastic!

[Droxybrobotnik]

You really fail at normalizing both groups by acting like extreme measures is the best way forward you know.

[TitanMenII]

Equality,

“LGBTQ”

Where’s the “H” for Heterosexuals?

What a horrible comment to make.

[TitanMenII]

Oh, so in the real world.

This is such a stupid argument. While you can argue it happens FAR LESS, it ALSO happens. You cannot build a system of inclusion by specifically and explicitly EXcluding a group of people under the argument "they don't need it", which also makes them umprotected and open season. There's no Pride Parades for Straight people, and no, if "every other month is Straight Pride Month", then where are all these Straight Pride parades? And how come the one that someone tried to run a few years ago was instantly called homophobic and no option was offered for one that was non-homophobic/wouldn't be called homophobic? You can't have it both ways.

A system of inclusion must include. If it allows exclusion, it isn't a system of inclusion. If it encourages exclusion, it is, in fact, exclusionary. Full stop.



Ah, oh! The manager is in for it now!

I can easily tell you watch Tucker Carlson.