This sounds like an oversimplification of the issue at hand. No one is stopping you from voicing your opinion. Having said that, you can't stop others from responding with their opinions. It's a cyclical thing.
Beyond that, some opinions can be wrong. Not wrong as in factually, but wrong as in - for lack of a better word - morally.
And each story has its own unique morals.
The moral of this particular story, the story in which we have female characters who do not meet the status quo (female characters that female players can better identify with and more readily idolize/respect) is that said fabricated characters hold as much value, if not more than, idealized beauties. Friendship value. Romance value. Plot value. They are intended to be valuable people, just as women in the real world wish to be valued as equals. But that equality just isn't there yet, and it persists in ways that cut deep. It hurts our friends, our sisters, our mothers, our daughters. We've all known at least one woman who has been hurt in this way.
The characters are fabricated people, yes. They're just pixels and lines of dialogue, yes. But if they were, on the whole, considered *that* insignificant, then perhaps these threads would not exist.
I feel bad for people who are unable to see the problem - people who equate "ugly" with things like wrinkles, short hair, a lack of makeup, or the wrong body type. The people who are hooked on the idealism are the victims. They are victims of a social conditioning that taught each of us to devalue human beings (either gender) and treat them like things.
Once people are able to deprogram this kind of brainwashing, all the force fed plastic imagery and tropes that have plagued our eyes since the first time we gawked at a TV, then people will be more empowered. They'll no longer be the frustrated victims of a broken machine.
I have no problems with unconventional female love characters.
The problem I have with this is the fact that only straight males are getting this unconventional-ness. Not the straight female. Cassandra is a warrior and as such has scars to prove it. Yet Cullen who has been a Templar that has seen through plenty of shite looks like a male model with a 5'o clock shadow. Even Blackwall, who is a veteran lone wolf warrior has a well trimmed beard and a smooth face. Both of them are not realistic at all.
I want equality across the board. If straight males are getting "realism" then so should the female romance options as well. I am questioning the hypocritical double standards at work. I am questioning the double standard that straight females can have their fantasy but straight males are somehow flawed and they have to be "fixed" and "deprogrammed" of their fantasies.
This notion of wanting to control the fantasies of people on the basis of their gender is a form of thought control. People like you are essentially okay with women being able to fantasize however they like but want to impose restriction and "educate" them to fantasize in a certain way. Your way. This is dangerous, it leads down a a path where things never end well.
However, I have not yet seen anyone here who is willing to address this. All they say or rather spew is some privilege nonsense, deprogramming crap, taking one for the team.
Has anyone actually bothered to address the elephant in the room which is:- "Why after all these years of making equal romance content and appeal for both sexes, have Bioware decided to practice double standard ? Why after all these years of equality, they decided to pander in the name of some nonsensical justice and guilt ?"
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