#Have subtly pit the mlm against the wlw in the choices fandom

[masked-alien-lesbian]

I've been thinking, there are multiple ways in which the Choices fandom seems to not give a damn about wlw players and I think the gender coding issues is one of them.

When I see gender coding discussions on Reddit, most of the time it's trivial bullshit like male MC players complaining because their male MC stayed in feminine behaviors/roles like the female MC got put into. Male MC sat in the LI's lap, male MC walked down the aisle, male MC was saved by the LI, male MC acted gushy/"princessy", boo fucking hoo. Most of this is just lazy coding in general.

Rarely ever on that sub do I hear about the actual coding errors that straight up don't match with the chosen MC gender like "I now pronounce you husband and wife" for Hana and MC, male CA MC being called "thee my daughter" during the promposal, female Sam being called "dad", Paolo's "women don't belong in the workplace" bullshit despite that his daughter is marrying a female CEO, outfit descriptions that don't match the male AME MC's outfits, the fucking description of Surrender 2 initially referring to Pat as "husband".

And notice how majority of the actual coding errors take place in wlw routes? But they rarely get talked about. Deadass I've seen way more people complain about male MC getting walked down the aisle in AME than I have about MC and Hana getting pronounced "husband and wife".

When I really think about it, I'm very convinced that a lot of people believe that the female players (both wlm and wlw, lbr the wlm routes have their own different set of issues as well) "don't have it as bad" because every book in Choices has female MC options, like "well you're the ones PB is catering to so you can't possibly be having any real problems with the romance routes".

And don't get me wrong, I 100% sympathize with the people who want more GOC MCs. I'm very pro-GOC myself . It's clear that PB often does not care about their male MC players, but I am so tired of seeing that in regards to male MCs acting super-feminine as if wlw routes don't often have even more terrible coding and wlm routes don't constantly rely on pandering and gender stereotypes. If that makes sense.

I 100% agree with you! I think the reason why wlw issues with PB's books are downplayed so much on here and other sites like reddit, Twitter and so on is because gay guys and women who play as a male mc to romance the male LIs outnumber women who only romance the female LIs.

Also, I've noticed over the years of talking and interacting with other lesbians on tumblr that it seems like a lot of us are being bullied, harassed and chased off of the other sites and they're starting to do the same here on tumblr now. I just feel that there's a dwindling amount of lesbians in the choices fandom lately.

But I totally understand how tiring the coding is for wlw, everytime I make a post about it, there's always someone trying to speak over me in the comment section about how bad the coding is for mlm players. Like I get it lol! PB is lazy! But let me have my moment of ranting! Stop trying to silence us by telling us that we have it loads better! Plus, if you come onto a lesbian playchoices blog and try to talk over them about other issues, it's a lot like walking into a save the rainforest committee and asking, "well what about all the pollution in the oceans? Why do you not care about the oceans??" Like yes, there's a lot of stuff PB gets wrong with their obvious catering to wlm crowd and I feel for the male readers but for them to say that PB caters to lesbians JUST as much as wlm?? Lol nah they don't