Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns
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Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
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Reminder that every decade, conservatives whined about something fucking stupid.
2020s. Pronouns. Trans. Blue hair?
2010s. Gay marriage.
2000s. Gay representation on TV.
90s. Video games. Rap music.
80s. D&D. Gay people existing.
70s. Rock music. And interracial marriage?
60s. Hippy culture. Being antiwar.
50s. Fucking hips shaking on TV?
You forgot "children being taught evolution", that was a pretty big one. Also birth control pills, which many of them are still fuming over.
You can also keep going back to when they were insisting radio would rot children's brains or even further back to when they opposed electrification.
But at least electricity can kill you. Modern reactionaries take entitled whining to a whole new level, growing physically violent because there's people out there who are unhappy with the genitals they were born with.
I guess we'll never understand the horror of having an extra checkbox in a character creator that they have to look at (but not click, since it's already what they want by default).
Anyway, fuck em. They can either accept that society is going to treat minorities with basic human decency or they can stare at the wall for 8 hours a day waiting for new far-right approved content. It's their live to piss away.
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And by the following decade they had been proven to be not just wrong, but actively impeding basic human decency
Every. Single. Time!
On a long enough time frame ... we win. Every time.
Not only do we win every time, but the people who fought us will pretend they were always on our side when we do.
Beau of the Fifth column on YouTube has an interesting viewpoint. Today's conservatives are yesterday's progressives who refused to change over time. People don't get more conservative as they age ... the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.
That's how you end up with Bill Maher, who prides himself on his liberal bona fides, is sure that the changes he fought for needed to happen but also that this new generation just goes too far, and completely fails to see that the people he fought against in the 60s and 70s followed the same process as him and ended up in the same place as him.
As someone who just turned 43, I find this quite interesting and relatable.
I mean, if anything I'm getting actively more leftist as I get older, but I do find myself nonplussed when it comes to gender identity and such. Not to the point where I'm against it, obviously, but I do have to work harder to try to understand people who aren't in my immediate field of experience. If I was less invested in trying then I can imagine that I'd end up being one of those grumpy old pricks who used to be with it before they changed what it was. But ultimately the attitude I take is that how younger people want to present themselves to the world has absolutely fuck all to do with me, and as long as they're trying to make themselves happy then all power to them.
On an entirely different level, it's like bitching that all modern pop music sucks. The music doesn't (generally) suck, you're just not the target any more.
aka "Cant wait until you're dead".
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice.
Conservatives have been on the wrong side of every major societal improvement, every major argument, on every major thing.
Religion thrives the most when people are ashamed of what they like.
Maybe swap "gay people existing" for "gay people dying in droves while the government ignored it"