truly did not realize what a shitstorm would be caused by casting a trans VA to be an "unknown"/not gendered monster.
That's the funny part. From the perspective of the woke, they did they right thing, right up until someone with the correct victim status said they did the wrong thing. The way they look at it, they have a character that is genderless and can switch between approximating male and female forms. This character therefore needs to have a male and a female voice, so you can either go through the difficulty and cost of hiring a male actor and female actress that sound similar, or you can do what they did—hire a trans actor who can do both voices. In theory, this should be brilliant. The actor they hired is Zoey Alexandria, who LARPs as a woman and even runs a service training men on sounding feminine. If you work from the woke frame, where Zoey Alexandria is expected to be a normal, professional person who is just like anyone else, but had the misfortune of being "born in the wrong body," it's a genius move. You get to be "inclusive" and "open-minded" and "diverse" by hiring a tranny, and you also get someone who is extremely experienced at exactly what you want, which is producing a masculine and a feminine version of the same voice. You have no way to see what is about to happen coming.
If you aren't woke and you operate from the correct frame of "trannies are mentally unstable narcissists who can and will take almost anything as a personal attack," the outcome is extremely obvious. But because the DbD devs are woke, they can never realize that danger.
That's the funny part. From the perspective of the woke, they did they right thing, right up until someone with the correct victim status said they did the wrong thing. The way they look at it, they have a character that is genderless and can switch between approximating male and female forms. This character therefore needs to have a male and a female voice, so you can either go through the difficulty and cost of hiring a male actor and female actress that sound similar, or you can do what they did—hire a trans actor who can do both voices. In theory, this should be brilliant. The actor they hired is Zoey Alexandria, who LARPs as a woman and even runs a service training men on sounding feminine. If you work from the woke frame, where Zoey Alexandria is expected to be a normal, professional person who is just like anyone else, but had the misfortune of being "born in the wrong body," it's a genius move. You get to be "inclusive" and "open-minded" and "diverse" by hiring a tranny, and you also get someone who is extremely experienced at exactly what you want, which is producing a masculine and a feminine version of the same voice. You have no way to see what is about to happen coming.
If you aren't woke and you operate from the correct frame of "trannies are mentally unstable narcissists who can and will take almost anything as a personal attack," the outcome is extremely obvious. But because the DbD devs are woke, they can never realize that danger.