To relieve the Great Game thread of the genderlocking discussion:
@CaesarCzech, I think you’re mistaken in calling it hypocrisy. A different standard isn’t always a double standard.
I’m suggesting that we Westerners consume way too many stories starring straight white males. It’s an unbalanced and unhealthy diet for our collective imaginations. So my goal is to have more stories with protagonists and characters who don’t fit that description (and gameworlds that don’t privilege SWMs).
That’s a very different goal from “everyone should be able to customize their character to be as much like themselves as possible.” If I held to the latter principle, then yes, preferring female genderlocking to male genderlocking would be hypocritical.
But I don’t. You’re of course free to disagree that increased representation of people who aren’t straight white males is an important goal; but unless I’m missing something, that just means that you disagree with me, not that I’m being hypocritical. 