The whole woke stuff is really starting to grate me. It's not about video games being woke, but people throwing around 'woke pandering sjw propaganda' as a casual insult to anything and everything that has (in particular) lgbt+ representation. (like Gone Home)
Was browsing forums and hell, now not even 13 Sentinels is free from this ****. One of the protagonists is pansexual, and it's 1. not problematic, or stereotypical 2. very, subtle and not 'in-your-face' and 3. not politicized in the slightest, yet the game gets slandered as, yes, woke sjw pandering.
Is there room, and need, for legitimate criticism regarding forced representation that is either politicized or out of place in a way that can result in harmful stereotypes and become a detriment to the overall experience? (And the toxic discourse that tends to follow in it's wake) Absolutely. But people twisting the debate into throwing tantrums over a game that just strays a bit from the norm just annoys me.