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[Milady495a]

 I know this is a controversial topic. I would like to have a respectful debate among mature people, which may or may not share my point of view on the issue. I had been musing this question for a long time, and today I sat down and wrote a medium-sized blog post on it, which you may find here: 
http://hypercriticis...of-credibility/  - I shall highlight some of the questions here for the sake of brevity:

As a disclaimer: "Just in case I get misunderstood: I do not consider that bisexuality or homosexuality or any form of representation of minorities is wrong, quite the contrary. As a female, I am considered part of a minority in the gaming community, and I am sensitive towards these issues. My point is that Bioware didn't do anything spectacular by making all of the characters bisexual, and that this decision made the story less credible, challenging my suspension of disbelief."

"Instead of tackling the issue of representing minorities, Bioware took the safest approach: they made every character romanceable by both genders, destroying any pretence of verisimilitude in the process. This way they didn't need to assign any additional efforts to the creation of diversity, and everybody would be happy."

"Some people may argue that this is a fantasy world, and that writers might have imagined a world with different sexual attitudes than the ones we are accustomed to. This is wrong, because nothing in the world of Dragon Age speaks of bisexuality as being the common orientation of anybody, not even the companions. Their bisexuality is superficial, untackled and undiscussed. The sexuality of the townsfolk is mainly heterosexual -I cannot recall any same-sex couples, as a matter of fact, apart from those of the companions (Liara in DA1, Isabella when she suggests to you a threesome in DA1, Zevran in DA1). The all-bisexual array of characters is therefore a construct outside the context established by the narrative: it is an implausibility, and it was at no point suggested to be a matter of fact in the Dragon Age world."

"I can think of at least two ways of tackling this in a more satisfactory manner: 1) make your work bisexually-friendly (make a world in which bisexuality is common). Your story won't be as unlikely as it is, in terms of character personalities; 2) make your choice of a same-sex relationship different (more prominent perhaps) than the straight one, as to reflect the world you have developed (in which heterosexuality is still the norm); even a third one, if your budget allows it! 3) make homosexual characters to cater to the minority, as you did in KoTOR."

Second disclaimer: I consider much better to have all bisexual characters than all straight characters. Minorities cannot continue being disregarded in mainstream narratives. My only concern is that this was a superficial and not-so-bold move as it could have been. I was much more pleased by how they handled it in DA:O.

[Stanley Woo]

Not really about Dragon Age 2 any longer.

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