The Last Of Us 2 leak controversy and the homophobia it awoke

[Cerny 4,270]

1 minute ago, Azor Ahai said:

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She looks she has a male physique espesially in the leaked video. She looks like a pre-op trans-woman which makes sense because in the apocalypse you can't do hormones or surgeries etc.

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No, it really doesn’t make sense. People are just used to see women with a small waist, big breasts and wide hips in media, specially in video games because of the rampant sexualisation of women in gaming, that the moment someone doesn’t fit the established mold, people unleash their internal hate towards certain groups of people, and create harmful and ignorant narratives. 

Cisgender women can look like Abby.

 

 

[Eido 3,633]

42 minutes ago, Cerny said:

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Yes, but she’s not trans and she’s not killing that character because he’s a straight white man. She’s seeking revenge. Some are also saying she is an angry feminist simply because she tortured an killed him, but that makes no sense. He killed her dad, so she’s killing him.

 

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I know, I didn't say the contrary or that she was trans

 

[Chaymie 843]

2 hours ago, Adakam said:

Is anyone up to date regarding this situation?

Long story short, pretty much the whole plot leaked, and people are not happy, fans everywhere are extremely mad at it. The problem is that theres a big LGBT link in there that is making a lot of people bring out their inner homophobia and transphobia. I normally would avoid spoilers for myself, but after seeing the reaction I just couldnt resist, and I must say, Im not buying the game anymore even on sale...

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[Azor Ahai 18,861]

4 minutes ago, Cerny said:

 

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Trans women can also look like Abby. It wouldn't be outlandish to assume she is a trans woman and ofc there is nothing wrong with that because we don't know the exact context. My only issue is with how she goes and kills the heroes   

 

[StuckInMyMind 5,930]

I can’t wait for the game but haven’t watched anymore leaks since the first gameplay video leaked

[Cerny 4,270]

2 minutes ago, Eido said:

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I know, I didn't say the contrary or that she was trans

 

Sorry, I thought you were trying to dismiss what I said with something else, cause what you said had nothing to do with it.

[Cerny 4,270]

2 minutes ago, Azor Ahai said:

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Trans women can also look like Abby. It wouldn't be outlandish to assume she is a trans woman and ofc there is nothing wrong with that because we don't know the exact context. My only issue is with how she goes and kills the heroes   

 

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That’s ok, but I’m saying don’t worry about the possibility of her being trans and her portrayal, what you read is false. 

 

[Eido 3,633]

2 minutes ago, Cerny said:

Sorry, I thought you were trying to dismiss what I said with something else, cause what you said had nothing to do with it.

No no, I just said that there was a reason why she was trying to kill the person. I never talked about something else ahah it's ok

[BleepBloop 10,313]

Ummmmmm, actually the whole reason why people are mad is that the story is SH*T and not that some of the characters are queer.

[Adakam 2]

8 hours ago, Cerny said:

Going by your opening post, you’re not buying the game because people are being homophobic and transphobic (confused about the latter also, Ellie is gay and it’s been known for years, that one other character in the game is not trans) now that they know the game’s plot, is that correct? Or you just lost interest in the game after reading about what goes down in it and you’re in disagreement about the handling of some established characters in the sequel?

If it’s the former what do the developers have to do with it?

Its the latter, I think the way they took the story is horrible, I was just pointing out that some people are pretty much blaming the bad stuff on the lgbt subjects. Or saying that they go too far with it that it also hurts the game, calling it an agenda pushing sjw game. (Noone really cared about Ellie being gay, but it looks like they push it way to far on this one)

[Ricardo 7,682]

I'm too late for the party but I just played this and I gotta say what a fcking MASTERPIECE it was, the whole story blew me away, gamers are so basic it's laughable, I believe the whole point of TLOU franchise is to show us how humans behave and it felt too real to me, the way humans grouped whether militarized or cult, also reading the notes along the game gave the perspective of the survivals while they were alive, the whole story revolves around being a human in a post apocalyptic world and doing whatever it takes to survive and rebuild a society, sometimes I think even if Joel wouldn't have saved Ellie it would have been for nothing because it's pretty clear where society has turned out to, power hungry people and I don't think not even the vaccine would have save them

maybe I'm reading into it too much don't know but honestly the harsh critiques only shows how basic the whole gaming world is where they pretty much want an A to B basic save the world story

[sillynate 6,170]

Hasn’t the game been out for months though 

edit: it was a bump 

[judaspriest 934]

I would have preferred to play the whole game as Ellie, truth be told