Diversity counselling for Boardgames?

But why?

Let me ask you, how did it contribute to the discussion that you announced your orientation or your identification? What value did it bring to the table? How has it advanced your case?

You said that there should be diversity and inclusion without forcing it on the player? You've already forced it upon us.

What value and meaning does it have for a worker in Viticulture to be gay? All I care is that that worker does his work in the fields and make the wine.

You've forced the player to engage in a discussion about diversity when it was neither merited nor required.

I hate to be crude, but this is the equivalent of someone unzipping their pants and smacking their member on the table and proclaiming "look at the size of my organ", when everyone is talking about a particular vintage of grapes.

What relevance is there here?

I'll say this again. In a game where the central theme is about diversity and acceptance, I might want to see such involvement.

In any other game, not only is this unwarranted, it's unwanted. I wouldn't pay for the game, much less pay a premium to buy a game that's going to lecture at me about the topic when I did not want it, because the publisher has made their game a platform for their views when all I wanted was a board game.

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