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I used to have a group I'd play DnD with, it was fun. We don't talk anymore though because they are right-wing assholes and would never accept me as a trans girl, since they openly made fun of transgender people. There was an NPC character in one of our campaigns which was a "man dressed as a woman" who would always get mocked for it.
Huh. You'd think right wing assholes would love just staying in the real world where all of their hard work and fiscal responsibility delivered them lives us broke libtards could only dream of.
It's absolutely mental to create a character to just act as a punching bag for your beliefs. Even if the roles were reversed, I doubt I'd enjoy playing with people like that.
It always felt uncomfortable when they'd do it. I felt unsafe when they would do it. I bet if they saw me now they'd make those same jokes about me directly. Probably also mock me for pronouns. They weren't good people, I don't know why I hung out with them as much as I did. I guess I just wanted to feel like I fit in with others. Well I'm glad I never came out to them even when I found out, that would've been really bad for me, instead we just quietly went our separate ways.
I think the problem is that it's something not actually bad. Making a BBEG that's just a punching bag for your believe that murder is wrong is perfectly okay.
Wasn't even a BBEG, was just a random NPC in the party that party members would make fun of for being "a man pretending to be a woman". The character remained in the party through the whole campaign and only served the purpose of being the butt of transphobic humor. I don't even think they had good stats or abilities.
Having the BBEG be a bigot and having their bigotry be integrated into the plot is fine. I'm talking about having an irrelevant NPC just exist as the butt of jokes for the players. I feel like I would just get tired of hearing those interactions repeated for hours.
Everyone thinks their takes are right or they wouldn't have them