I've got a quote, care of S. M. Stirling, that seems appropriate here.
The whole outrage over this one line of dialogue was ridiculous to begin with. Writers can create a character who is unsavory in any number of ways without themselves being unsavory. Accusing Blizzard of being sexist because they create a sexist character is totally absurd, but that is what happened, and it is what they caved against.There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is 'idiot'.
"If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom." - LaVar Burton.
The perfect response. By Aislinana's logic:
-J.R.R. Tolkien is the most evil being ever to have existed because he conjured up Sauron.
-George Lucas is pretty evil for having created the character of Darth Vader
-Charlotte Bronte is pretty evil too for having created the character of Brocklehurst
And so on, and so forth...
Last edited by Austilias; 2012-04-12 at 05:29 PM.
Not everyone posting in this thread AGAINST the change to the NPC's comments is a man. I am a woman and I am very much against the change to his comments. And not only am I NOT offended by a man hitting on me, I APPRECIATE compliments from men. Oh and yeah, I am from Arizona, thanks for asking.
I hate polictical correctness
WoW is a dynamic world and there must be all sorts of people in that world with unacceptable traits ie sexists, racists, homophobics etc
seriously not every NPC has to be PC giving them human traits no matter how deplorable gives them character and makes them interesting and fun
This is a bad move and i guess soon that goblin in the stranglethorn vale zepplin wont be flirting with me anymore
Have you not read the last few pages? The amount of people claiming they are the ones that decide what offends you or not, how they are disgusted by women who feel offended? This thread stopped being about an NPC on the first page.
If it's so non important, how come you care so much? Or is the npc only irrelevant for those with a different view then yours?
Anyway I really could care less, I don't play horde so I'll never meet the dude, but if people felt offended, and someone at Blizzard quality control agreed, who are we to become moral judges? If it's just a game and not relevant at all, how come one side of this discussion can feel so offended, disgusted and in disbelief, but the other side does not have that right?
it's an interesting discussion at least, it didn't get too out of hand and no mod shut it down. some pretty extreme viewpoints, I can see both sides. from my perspective at least, I can see why a woman who has dealt with sexism might find it a little tiresome and insulting, but there's never going to be a weird asexual hybrid race of humans who are exactly alike; men will always be like Ji Firepaw.
I'd have to agree there, I dearly hope anyone who reads that article is aware of the obvious agenda it's trying to push.
Scrolling to the bottom I saw the author try to make the point that domestic violence is more often perpetrated by women than men, completely ignoring that male domestic violence is often horrendously extreme in comparison to the more common, but far more trivial cases of female domestic violence.
It's not like Blizzard bombards the player base with sexism; this was one instance, but compromise is a foreign concept to some, it's either "No sexism!" or "Down with Blizzard!", and i'm sure Blizzard is facepalming just as much as any other sensible person at the outrage regarding this character.
"Stop being a giant trolling asshole." - Boubouille
"The Internet is built on complaints about asinine things" - prefect
"Facts became discussable when critical thinking stopped being the focus of education."- Chonogo
"Sometimes people confuse "We Don't Understand This Yet" with "Ooga Booga Space Magic" - Chazus
true, but if some poor girl had problems at work for example, or even a worst past of sexual violence against her, you could understand why she might be sensitive about it right? she has a right to voice her displeasure, Blizzard obviously deemed her point valid and sided with her. it's not as if they risked controversy by keeping it in, they decided to err on the side of caution which is fine with me.
It was a poorly written piece of dialogue that should have been redone. It's as simple as that. If you're attempting to make a cool, flirtatious character, you don't want to write him like a twelve year old making his first attempt at picking up girls, which is how he came across. The fact that they didn't remove any of the rest of his flirting is proof that this wasn't about feminism or being prude. (Though it has brought out some seriously misplaced and irrational hatred it seems.) It's about a piece of dialogue that didn't do the job that was intended. If it was really about sexism, his character would have been rewritten. Instead, just a single poorly crafted paragraph was redone.
If you were reading a book about James Bond, the classic cool dude with a thing for the ladies, and you came upon "Hey, sweetness, you're looking really cute tonight," the removal of that sentence wouldn't be about making Bond less flirty, but about making him not seem lame when doing it.