(03-11-2021, 07:50 PM)Demos Said: oh here's one:

female characters so clearly written to be nothing more than the libidinal desire of the male gaze

I see that a lot, mostly written by mysoginistic virgins who've never touched a boob. A close friend of mine was harassed online by another roleplayer for the past 7 years in every IRL fed she was in, because she was a female into roleplaying. The creep would make take someone like, I dunno, "Nidia" and would just talk about their tits and ass and about how sexy they are. Another weirdo around the IRL scene was sommeone who'd always play Tay Conti and WOULD NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP about her having braces, and how she was a g@m3rg!rl. E-fedders are fucking weird. I don't deal with letting harassment like that online or IRL or fly. That shit's not cool.

A pet peeve I have (being a bisexual male) is seeing misrepresentation by someone when writing a LGBT character, mostly in the sense of using nothing but stereotypes instead of writing a human being. Very, very few people can correctly write these kinds of characters without leaning towards unrealisim. Even rarer have I seen anyone attempt a transgender character. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a trans character before. Some say it's a touchy subject, but shit, do the research. Know what kind of fed you're in. I've written characters before who have alternate sexualities, I've written women, and never once have I emphasied a character's gender or sexuality unless I absolutely needed too. I wrote them as professinal wrestlers who just so happen to have a different lifestyle then what society tells them to have. The people who're so uncreative and are perveted enough to get their rocks off by typing a 500 word RP about a made up person is beyond my comprehension on what the word "fucked" means.

I've mentioned before in the Discord, but the homophobia seen in some feds have been enough for me to take hiatuses. The e-fedding world is still very much shrouded by a very conservative train of thought that is gross and has no place in 2021. Hopefully that changes one day and there's more diversity, and less shit heads that act like it's the early-2000s. They need to grow up and stop being a bunch of ignorant bitches.

It's not hard to be decent humans. This is probably entering bitch sessions now, shit. Rant over.