{"id":10979,"date":"2011-03-30T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gay-gamer-launches-petition-to-fire-dragon-age-2-writer-for-the-worst-stereotype-homosexual-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10979-gay-gamer-launches-petition-to-fire-dragon-age-2-writer-for-the-worst-stereotype-homosexual-characters","title":{"rendered":"Gay gamer launches petition to fire Dragon Age 2 writer for \u201cthe worst stereotype homosexual characters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember David Gaider? He&rsquo;s the BioWare writer who took on a <a href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/forum\/1\/topic\/304\/index\/6661775&amp;lf=8\" target=\"_blank\">complaint about gay romances in Dragon Age 2,<\/a> and made the other guy look a complete fool. Responding to an allegation that the game &ldquo;neglects the straight male gamer&rdquo;, Gaider pointed out that, actually, the romance options are &ldquo;for everyone&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Gaider&rsquo;s honorary glitter-plated medal of Totally Fabulous Service is apparently not enough for one angry gay gamer, however, who has accused the writer of writing &ldquo;the worst stereotype homosexual characters&rdquo; in a petition calling for Gaider&rsquo;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a homosexual playing Dragon Age 2, I&#8217;ve witnessed the worst stereotype homosexual characters in this game,&rdquo; he writes. &ldquo;If you refused to make your moves on a gay character then you are received [sic] rivalry points for not wanting to be gay for the character.&rdquo;<br \/>Newsflash: nobody likes being rejected. Even game characters. Especially Anders.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The person that wrote this game should be fired for stereotyping homosexuals in such a disrespectful way, as well as creating the worst writing in characters, plot and everything else in DA2,&rdquo; fumes the drama queen, perhaps inadvertently lapsing into his real problem with the game &ndash; that it&rsquo;s rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Some 200 people have signed the petition already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also for \u201ccreating the worst writing in characters, plot and everything else in DA2\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}