Why do games have to be about having certain sexes and races shoved everywhere all the time? can't games just be for every one?

geekandmisandry:

“Can’t games just be for everyone?” said the white dude, why could not throw a poorly rendered stone without hitting twelve protagonists that looked like him in the process.



“Can’t games just be for everyone?” He wondered, confident that unless stated otherwise, any character he encountered would be straight and cis.



“Can’t games just be for everyone?” He wheezed, ogling the party paladin, a woman, who wore less clothing than any other character, and whose breasts and butt made up 90% of her body mass.



“Can’t games just be for everyone?” He gurgled, as his white protagonist was deployed into ‘The Middle East’ to dispatch wave after wave of faceless terrorists.

