Euphanized09

I agree that this is a problem that people like to troll about. However I think it's also very important to understand that there is an enormous amount of trolling on both sides. Activists who usually aren't dedicated gamers tend to push body type over male/female. Whether or not they consciously understand it, they do this mostly not because of inclusivity, but because of the exclusivity inherent in the act. For many, it is an act engaged in specifically because it will alienate people and push the original fans of an IP away from it, not because it will bring more people in or because it's somehow more aware or more friendly. Another very important thing to understand-the market overwhelmingly supports the male/female dichotomy over body type because it reflects the real, lived experience of a far, far larger group of people. Many polls have been quite clear on this beyond any shadow of statistical doubt. Oh, and I should mention that includes my own lived experience as a transgender person (I say this with a small amount of snark that probably won't translate by text without this note. I view myself through the lens of my career, relationships, and hobbies far more than gender). I personally prefer male/female over body type because the male/female dichotomy is closer to how I would prefer to feel and be treated in a video game. I don't hate the body type convention, it is simply an inconvenience or minor annoyance that I'd personally prefer to do without. The kind of thing mods are meant to address. And let me be clear, any game should stand on its' own merits when it comes to this issue. As should any mod. Nexus, quite frankly, has done the LGBT community and transgender community a huge disservice in banning mods like this so long as they have not violated any rules yet. Silencing dissenting voices when it comes to this issue is, in my personal opinion, causing large sections of the population to become more homophobic and transphobic, not less. It is extremely sad to see, from my perspective, that my way of life is less accepted now than it was 15 years ago. Don't get me wrong, there are bad actors out there, and platforms do need moderation. I'll even hear an argument for closing a comment section preemptively from time to time. But silence individual bad actors, not entire discussions or philosophies. On a separate note, it also just seems silly that making a mod to change a remaster to be like the original game is ban-worthy considering the amount of content on this site that is literally pornographic, and sometimes in very unethical ways. To address the aspect of trolling that I think most are blind to, many of the advocates for silencing dissenting opinions on this topic are not members of the communities they advocate for. At least the vast majority are not. Most don't even have a practical conception of real world issues being faced by those communities. Many simply use these issues for social clout, and ignore the critical damage they do to those communities in the process. They are not helping us, they are hurting us by alienating us from normal people on a societal level. I think some of them even understand that it hurts us, and just don't care. I fear that it is a very disappointing proportion of people. In writing this, I wonder if people like that are going target this post or myself because it disagrees with their sensibilities. The base concept of this conversation makes me wonder whether there are some of them on the Nexus moderation team, and wonder whether this post will even be published. Time will tell, I suppose. To me it seems both Kafkaesque and Orwellian that I should even be concerned about such a thing, but the truth is stranger than fiction and all that.