Games Are Beginning to Reflect Our Progressive Society

According to Jagger Gravning, a journalist for The Atlantic, our progressive society is beginning to diffuse into video games. If you pay attention to protagonists like Aveline de Grandpre (Assassin’s Creed: Liberation) and Lara Croft (Tomb Raider series) you may have noticed their sexual orientations are never clearly stated. This is due to the fact that the writers of these characters want them to be LGBT characters, but want to be subtle as not to offend homophobes. I am not an impartial party when it comes to the treatment of the LGBT community and it’s equal inclusion in all aspects of society. So, I am proud that our society has progressed far enough where there are all types of characters. However, we don’t know if the writers of these LGBT characters include them for the same reason. The hasty generalization is that these characters are just involved for sex appeal and that would explain why they are both women. Although games like Mass Effect 3 include scenes involving men and women. In the future there will likely be just as many LGBT characters in games as there are on TV.  But, let me know how you feel about these new characters.  And what type of characters do you think video games are lacking?

Lara Croft of Tomb Raider

Gravning, Jagger. "How Video Games Are Slowly, Quietly Introducing LGBT Heroes." The Atlantic:   Web. 5 Oct. 2014.