Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
Quote Originally Posted by chionos View Post
Not that I'm against people mailing SE to complain, but no, it won't mean a t-shirt for Cidney. That's just silly.
You're only saying that because it's never been tried before.

Defeatist attitudes don't change costumes in the name of human dignity.
Now I can't tell if you're just being a smartass or not. If you're not, forgive me.

Such things have been tried before actually, and it's not that protests cannot create change, it's just not feasible in this case. The problem is that it's just not practical enough. They're not going to spend thousands of dollars to go back and make such changes. Perhaps if SE didn't realize what they were doing. Perhaps if the feedback were any indication that they were wrong in their thinking that a dolled up Cid would get the attention of some guys and create a lot of hype. But they weren't wrong. They knew what they were doing. What they wanted was attention, not acceptance, and attention is what they got. Controversy equals money sometimes (see: The Interview), and that's what we got here, and in the end that's all that really matters to them.