Massively popular 2D sandbox Terraria has just removed gender icons from its character creation menu, and right-wingers are fuming.
Man, these right-wingers have nothing better to do than rage about unimportant things, you can still be fem or masc presenting in the game…I dunno what the big deal is.
It’s probably a very small number of small-minded people posting on Twitter, but the nature of that platform is that vocal minorities get signal boosted to fuck because of the dunk-tweet format and the algorithm.
Yeah, it likely is a combination of outrage tourists fomenting a vocal minority response and other twats+bots are boosting the message. Twitter is such a cursed social site, if it’s not Grok creating CSAM and undressing women for weird and desperate men, it’s stirring the pot with patriarchal propaganda or shitty hot takes.
Power, control, abuse, and influence.
If they can maintain their patriarchy even through video games (originally a feminine hobby), they will furor about their propaganda not being enforced in these media.I keep forgetting that they don’t understand women laid the groundwork for computers and made gaming possible in the present day. Worse, the fact they deliberately suppress this information as it would undermine the patriarchal narrative (which I don’t subscribe to as a man). Desperate misogynists will do anything to maintain an outlook that is always at risk of collapse, as a bit of critical thinking applied to it’s cobbled together structure, will topple it. I long for the day that unnecessary outrage is quelled in favor of useful discourse. I don’t think humanity will come to an agreement on that matter due to our nature…Until serious work is done to rehab worldviews.
I cannot imagine giving this much of a shit about something so unimportant.
I like this quote from the article
Responding to the ongoing furore, fans of the game brought up incredibly valid questions, such as: “Who f****** cares?”
banger quote, thanks for sharin
Without the icon, how will I know if a character is male or female?! I demand they add a feature so i can see what’s in their pants!
The Terra Blade is already in the game.
Do these people not have anything better to do with their lives than complain about a couple pixels being in the wrong place or not giving a set of pixels a gender in the first place?
Generally? No.
God says your pixel bulges must exist in a politically-pleasing way.
I hate when games don’t let me make buff women and girly boy characters. Or weird shaped questionably human creatures by glitching the sliders beyond the minimum and maximum
