Nexus Mods has removed the mod, which erases a canon lesbian relationship by changing one character into a man.

Article by Vice: Mod repository Nexus Mods has removed a mod that was supposed to gender-swap the character of Dame Aylin from the game “Baldur’s Gate 3” in order to remove a lesbian relationship.

Contains spoilers for the second act of the game

  • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My glasses are a lot rosier than yours I think. “Whoa hot chicks kissing” really didn’t bother to degrade women so much as not even acknowledge them; it was purely meant for male viewership (which were the predominant demographic for comedies, video games, etc.). Despite the Weinsteins of the day, I think most productions were market driven, plain and simple.

    And while you’re certainly right about conservative, I wouldn’t be so sure about the rest of that demographic information. Baldur’s Gate 3 has broad appeal, for better or worse, and misogyny manifests from a lot of different factors. If not an over-generalization, it sounds like some personal baggage.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t be so sure about the rest of that demographic information. Baldur’s Gate 3 has broad appeal, for better or worse, and misogyny manifests from a lot of different factors. If not an over-generalization, it sounds like some personal baggage.

      I mean, I doubt we’ll ever know the exact person’s specifics, but to answer your last comment: In a way, yes. I was friends with many of these people. I’ve been a computer ‘nerd’ since, well, the 80’s, and my fellow computer nerds. While definitely misogyny manifests from different factors, having spent a lot of time with people who have created/liked said content, my personal baggage here would lead me to believe that my guess is pretty dead on. Again, we’ll never know, but very similar things have been done, by people I knew who fit said descriptions.

      ** “Whoa hot chicks kissing” really didn’t bother to degrade women so much as not even acknowledge them**; it was purely meant for male viewership (which were the predominant demographic for comedies, video games, etc.

      I feel like I should post the ‘it’s the same picture’ meme here. What if (straight, white, cis) men are the predominant demographic… because it objectifies women? I know women who ‘weren’t gamers’ specifically because of how women were treated (or, as you alluded to earlier, ignored). Once things started to shift, they felt able to be included in gaming.

      I think this may be a life imitates art imitates life situation.