You are welcome to prove otherwise, if you like.
Right. So you have literally no way of proving that the characters trans either...Other then defaulting to the idea that only women can wear makeup or wear provocative female coded clothing.
Well if there's no way to release immortality ethically I probably won't bother with this game. I am too tired to deal with this stuff.
Even if their was a way an ethical way of releasing Soulkiller to the public the masses don't have the resources to actually take advantage of it unless their happy to just exist as digital ghosts floating around the net.
It'd quickly be a tool for the wealthy to prolong their lives since their the only one's who would have the resources to get new bodies.
Forgetting the fact that soulkiller is basically a gun you can use to bodyjack people or rip their souls out of their body from around the world and that releasing it into the wide world means everyone from governments to gangs can use it since the program is pretty much just software.
Is it so hard for you to understand that CDPR has earned very little faith in this regard?
Because right now I see you fighting tooth and nail against something that CD Project and their subsidiaries have a bad track record with and acting like the expression of worry is terrible and how dare people have such a lack of trust? Frankly the amount of stanning energy coming from you could fuel the whole electricity bill of the project.
I'm largely interested in the game and you are ridiculous.
As far as I'm aware the only legit complaint that can be levied at them in regards to transgender people is a PR person told a really dumb transphobic joke....And then the Company apologized and sacked the PR guy.
I mean hell....Is there anything else that I'm missing?
Not putting in non-binary pronouns while unfortunate doesn't really constitute an attack on the transgender community. Especially since a lot of transgender people would use male or female pronouns as whichever reflects their gender identity anyway..I can see why they don't want to divert a sizable amount of time, energy and funds to create an option only a small percentage of people would ever bother using.
So yeah, sorry I'm not outraged? :/
To begin with, "queer" is not exactly a gender, and it's not mutually exclusive with womanhood, and the very advertisement is about "mixing it up"; it invokes androgyny implicitly (through the innuendo of mixture) as well as explicitly (through the image of the effeminate sex object with a phallus).
The broader problem is that it doesn't fucking matter if this woman is a woman or a man. They're a fictionalized model on a poster in a universe that is itself fictional. To the audience, this character can be read as a cis woman who installed a dick, or as an effeminate man, or as a trans woman, but this character still serves a sexualized transfemme; "women with penises", "effeminate men", and "effeminate male sex objects" in particular are all popular symbols of trans womanhood. It's no coincidence that men try to fuck us transfemmes as if we're the gay men, tr*ps, and futanari they've seen in their porn.
Firstly, I didn't say Queer was a gender. But it does encompass non-normative and often radical non-assimilationist sexual or gender minorities which androgyny slots in well with.....Soooo I don't know why your pinging me on it's usage. :/
Secondly.....So? It's a poster ad made most likely by a corporation intent on hawking a soft drink by exploiting the human body. Would it be better if it were depicting a woman? Or a guy? Everyone is exploited to one degree or another, especially in this setting.
Anyone born a man who goes to the effort of literally sculpting their body to look like a woman is a transgender character, my dude. They might be a trans woman or non-binary or just a femboy, but that level of overt and deliberate femininity, down to the level of embodiment, is a break from normative cis manhood.
Your using the term rather broadly. The most commonly used def afterall have to do with people whose gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex.
Non-Binary, Genderqueer and Fluid folks don't quite seem to fit in that particular hole.
But honestly that seems more like arguing semantics as
I have heard people use the term transgender broadly enough to also include people who cross-dress regardless of their gender identity.
Also honey, I'm swish as fuck. I already don't fall into that neat little category of 'normative cis-manhood.'
Heck, I wear cowboy boots and work jeans and people could still pick me out from a mile away. XD
I don't think Cis-Manhood is an all encompassing thing like you seem to think it is.
See, if they have the money, plenty of men in the western world can acquire DIY hormones in order to feminize their bodies in real life, regardless of whether they're "really trans" or not. We are already in a cyberpunk future of body sculpting -- if you actually mean what you say, are you going to put your money where your mouth is, and treat every transmisogynistic figure in media as a potential crossdressing man?
Doubtful, though mostly due to the fact that medical science isn't nearly as good or as safe as your thinking it is.
Futzing around with hormones even with an endocrinologist monitoring everything can throw your health off kilter.
DIYing yourself is a good way to get sick.
I'm not sure what you were expecting. Cyberpunk as a whole has never been uncritically pro-transhuman. Now it often portrays certain transhuman ideas as awesome but also functions on the idea that ultimately there will be no grand end-of-history golden age caused by new technology. That human greed and apathy will make that world just as flawed as our own if not more so.
To paraphrase someone I knew on RPG.net back in the mid-00s, "Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology won't."
So, if you're expecting traditional Cyberpunk to portray transhuman ideas like immortality as an unqualified good thing you should fight for then you're out of luck. Because a rejection of the transhumanist ethic is baked into traditional Cyberpunk.
If you want a more positive spin on transhumanism in Cyberpunk than you're going to have to turn to Post-Cyberpunk offerings like Transmetropolitan and Ghost in the Shell where things still aren't perfect but technology is portrayed in a more positive/neutral manner than older Cyberpunk.
I actually tried explaining in the thread a while back that Cyberpunk and Transhumanism as extensions of the Enlightenment and Romanticism periods.
Cyberpunk is at odds with Transhumanism as this goes back to the century long debate between Romanticism and Enlightenment with Transhumanist media oftentimes depicting a future of social equality, prosperity and eliminating the frailities and frustrations born of the human condition through science and reason. Basically the idea that science and technology will make save mankind and society better....Cyberpunk on the other hand? It's Romanticism wherein it looks at science and society and the promise of a bright future and instead spits and shrugs and points out that humans will always be human....With all that entails.
