There was a bit of an uproar within the Skyrim modding community recently. It all started with on Nexus Mods, the premier place to download mods for Skyrim, among many other game titles, but Skyrim has always been their largest draw.
It all started when a modder uploaded a "gay marriage only" mod on the Nexus. Now, in Skyrim, you have a marriage mechanic where your character can marry an NPC and gender isn't a factor. So if you were a male character, you could marry a male NPC or a female NPC, given certain conditions.
A couple of other modders responded by uploading their own "straight marriage only" mods. On top of that, one of those modders uploaded a "Straight Hrodulf" mod. Basically, a dead NPC found in the Dragonborn DLC who was most likely in a gay relationship with another dead NPC. This mod changed Hrodulf's lover to a dead female NPC.
And naturally, the outrage from the LGBTQ+pedo side of the Internet was immediate and loud. Now, not all homosexual players cared about this. In fact, I suspect most didn't care.
But you all know how this goes. In our post-post-post-modern culture of "enlightened" morality, the group that is both the most insane and the loudest is usually the group that gets their way.
And so, in response to a small group of keyboard warriors who took time away from crystal meth and bug-chasing, Nexus Mods removed all of the "offending" mods. The marriage mods, both gay and straight, and the Hrodulf mod, and probably a bunch of other related mods.
So nobody "won" in the end. Except a lot of idiots with a lot of time took to the Internet to post articles about how horrible it was that someone "limited" Skyrim to straight marriages only.
Here's the thing: the whole point of modding Skyrim is that you are transforming the game into something that resembles what you want in the game. By default, the RPG elements of Skyrim are very weak, if not non-existent.
When Bethesda implement the marriage feature of Skyrim, I'm almost positive that they had straight marriages in mind but decided to make your player character to be bisexual by default in order to avoid minority-insano fan backlash. I say this because you have two genders in the game and there are perks and blessing which only work on characters of the opposite sex.
If they really cared about LGBTQ+pedo rights, they would've made the game less of an RPG than it already was. And, again, the RPG elements of Skyrim were pretty thin as it was.
And I guess that's what makes all this Woke culture nonsense so detrimental to gaming in general. It results in major gaming companies having to make generic, bland garbage with almost no player choice in how he or she or xe can play their game. Because allowing a straight white man to play Skyrim as a straight white man is a cardinal sin. Also, if he plays as a lesbian black vampire, he's some kind of weird pervert.
I mean, he is, but that is the essence of role-playing.
For now, I'm glad that Nexus Mods decided to just ban both and not take sides. While it's not the perfect solution, it's doesn't favor either side and tells the mod community that they won't tolerate mods that cause them headaches.
I'm sure these mods are available somewhere on the Internet, and I personally would like to find the straight ones because, as a straight, white, Christian man whose pronoun is Lord Sexual Tyrannosaurus, I want to purify my Skyrim experience.
Because I'm not into dudes. That's gay.