A quick explanation: I started off attracted to pots, baking dishes, and muffin tins.
Eventually though, it was pans that did it for me.
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A pansexual, simply put, is someone who can be attracted to people of all gender identities.
Some of usthinkpansexual and bisexual are interchangeable.
The distinctions are personal because theres no governing body for queer people.
Gaming news outlet The Gamer today publishedan interviewwith Brian Kindregan, the lead writer for Mass Effect 2.
Mass Effect is one of the most beloved gaming franchises of all time.
Millions of words have been written on these franchises queer romance story lines.
But, for posterity, heres my take on that particular aspect of the games: Meh.
Dont get me wrong, I love every game in the Mass Effect franchise.
Ill be first in line to play the remasters when they drop this year.
But not for the romance and sex options.
People seem to remember these games differently than they really were.
The Mass Effect franchise dideventuallyhelp bring queer romance to AAA gaming and thats a good thing.
Heres the problem: its 11 years later and not much has changed.
In 2010 Bioware decided that pansexual representation was less important than what the clowns at Fox News think.
But if the diverse and multicultural team isnt in charge, then what difference does it make?
Sometimes these problems can manifest even when publishers and developers genuinely give a shot to do the right thing.
But, on a deeply personal level, I was pretty bummed out it didnt include pansexual.
And it gets harder to understand why with each passing year.
Sigmund Freud coined the term pansexual in the early 1900s.
Yet, for some reason, including us is still too big a risk for most game publishers.
What we want to see is fair representation.
Were not just the quirky sidekicks, insane horny villains, or sexually provocative alien/robot/monster weirdos.
At a bare minimum, game publishers need to stop capitulating to bigots.
These problems are pretty easy to solve: hire and listen to queer consultants.
