Worse still, even schools that aren’t seen as “traditional” still often fall into a pit of heteronormative inaction. Antiquated and traditional education is failing students across the board, and is hurting rainbow students in particular. Voices such as these are utterly detached from reality. In an address to Auckland Grammar School this year on Catholic education this year, former cabinet minister Chris Finlayson suggested Wellington College was trying to “abandon their traditions in favour of a woke, new age type of education”. The ministry, and senior leadership within schools, need to step up and move quickly to dispense with antiquated views of health education and the broader role of the school. The work done by student leaders of Queer Straight Alliances and other rainbow groups is incredible, but it won’t lead to the system-wide reform that’s needed. New Zealand may have flown the pride flag outside Parliament, but the country still has a distance to go in properly supporting its rainbow communities. Have school principals say, loud and clear “we see you, we hear you, and this is how we’re going to help you”. The system is the curriculum and the support system schools offer to their students. When we refer to “the system”, it’s very easy for us to think of it as some intangible big-picture thing – where a “change of direction” or a “renewed focus on alternative perspectives” will be the fix. It is a product of a system that presumes heterosexuality is both the norm and the default, and ignores anything outside its very narrow view. This sort of abuse is rooted in a broader ignorance and non-acceptance of the rainbow community that persists within many of our secondary schools. It’s critical these incidents are covered, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg. (Video first published February 2022.)īut the problems our rainbow students face at secondary schools run far deeper than the scandals and investigations of major incidents that make it to the headlines. We don’t have to pretend otherwise in order to thrive.While they've won greater freedoms for members of the rainbow community, activists say there is still room for progress. That’s life for ya, and queer people go through it, too. Yet, I thought it was a pretty great ending. Many hated the ending, that all of it was for seemingly nothing. The fact that she’s queer is just another part of her characterization, and the things that she loses due to her own rage-a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, a beautiful son-are even more poignant for it. Do not let that be your takeaway from this! But I always saw this game as an allegory for how women experience loss in a cruel and unforgiving world. Is it, er, normal to experience these things with ultraviolence? Of course not, no way in hell. She commits terrible acts and we see every little emotion she feels in the process, up until the very end, where she realizes her grief is leading her nowhere and she needs to stop. Ellie, in this regard, is one of the realest female characters I have ever seen in a video game, queer or otherwise. People are complex, sometimes they get ugly, and when they endure a lot of shit, they get even uglier. Going back to my opinion that queer folks don’t need to be palatable, I think Ellie is the perfect example of a multi-faceted queer person who goes through an entire journey. I say this even while Claude is my favorite of the three lords. But ultimately, Edelgard really is just That Bitch. Is it a shame that the series’ most groundbreaking queer character is also its most polarizing? Yes, I suppose. Fire Emblem is a Japanese series, and mainstream Japanese games rarely lean into queerness in a way that feels open and genuine, yet here is a revolutionary empress proudly declaring her love for Byleth regardless of gender.
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But one of the specific things I find that separates Western from Eastern RPGs (and hence the need to differentiate between the two) is the respective willingness and unwillingness to include things that we might consider “progressive,” such as queer love-a thing that Eastern nations are still uncomfortably navigating (and which Westerners generally have no real right to comment on).Īll of that to say…this makes Edelgard even more of a badass than she already is.
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People seem to think that Eastern people belong solely in the East, and vice versa. A lot of people got on my case when I said we need more Asian characters in Western RPGs.