- Oct 21, 2021
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I think the reason NTR and trap content is so divisive is because it speaks to honesty and trust. People want to feel like they can trust the character they are seeking to romance. Indeed, I think perhaps there should be a label for content that builds specifically on trust like this, that uses some of the same trappings as NTR but then subverts them as characters reject engaging in NTR. As for traps, I find it is far less divisive when it is upfront and obvious. When the character doesn't try to hide what they are. But it still remains divisive, because their appearance alone is kinda-sorta "dishonest" in the way that those seeking to avoid such dishonesty are seeing. I guess a better way to put it than honest and dishonest is "real" and "illusory"? Like, the trap confuses some people's brains by being attractive but also being unattractive in different ways at the same time, such that they are kinda-sorta an illusion insofar as the brain is receiving it? I dunno, I think there is some sort of mechanism in the brain that makes both NTR and traps divisive for some of the same reasons, and I suspect that a great many of the people who object vociferously to both are the same people.I'm gonna be honest, I've yet to see devs get openly and publicly threatened, shammed and harassed about having NTR n their games like they get when they put trans people in.
I did, however, see quite a few of the NTR loving crowd post only to ask "when are you adding NTR", and then angry when they get answered that it's not happening. I remember even seeing a few shit on the dev for "being coward" and "making a shit vanilla game"...
Then again, I might simply have not come across the right threads, but I feel like the comparaison choice is strange... Especially with the fact there is a lot of transphobia even outside of these forums than there is... how do I even call it... Angst from people who don't see others get NTRed ?
I'm all for the idea that some content type breed unhinged idiots, both on the side of for and against them, but I feel like some cases are way less either numerous or vocal.
That sentence probably came wrong because I don't know how to phrase it right... Basically I feel like, while there are defnitely lovers and haters or any content type, I don't think they are all equal in how forceful they are. For example, there are lovers and haters of anal sex, but you don't see people going apeshit about a game not having anal. Like, there are some groups that seem to just have the maturity to say "Well, if this game has/doesn't have this type of content, it's not for me" and that's it.
Very few tags actually bring so much fire and brimstone of people literally wanting games/devs to be shut down because they don't personally like it...
I wonder if anyone has ever taken the time to try to verify any of that.