David Gaider is responsible for writing Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition, crafting much of the initial lore that underpins the series. The writer took to the social media site Bluesky to chastise Dragon Age: The Veilguard's usual detractors, who claim that the game's female characters are masculine-looking.
"The females aren't hot enough," Gaider writes, in a mocking fashion. "Yet because they're clued into the notion this is obviously incel behaviour, they've swapped out "unattractive" for "masculine" and thus "transgender" because that's a framing that makes them seem political instead of porn-brained. But we all know what they mean."
Gaider references the character Cassandra from Dragon Age: Inquisition, who was the target of a similar campaign a decade ago, "And here I am, recalling how this has been a thing ever since some dude whined 10 years ago about Cassandra actually being a man, posting over and over about her giant jaw and posting phrenology pics to scientifically prove why his pee-pee remained flaccid."
In response to a commenter who makes the ludicrous suggestion that because Gaider is a gay man, he can't know what an attractive woman looks like, the writer said,...
