Blizzard joins the Homophobes Union..

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Why is Aggie hot and bothered

because he's gay

[DinoDoc]

How well versed are Philosophy professors in those matters?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Why is Aggie hot and bothered over a game he doesn't play?

RTFP

I do play it. I have been off for a week or so because the game has had technical problems. I intend to resume playing once these problems have been sorted out.

On the other hand: why shouldn't people be bothered about prejudice wherever it occurs?

[Fake Boris]

haha he's burning with passion

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by MrFun



I'm assuming you're not anti-social and that you interact with other people on a daily basis, yes?

Do I need to list the myriad situations where it arises that one might want to tell someone else he/she is straight or gay??

Yes you do, because I can't recall the last time I had to tell anyone my sexual orientation offline. No doubt, my behaviour offer plenty of hints as to my sexuality, but that's something else.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Agathon

why shouldn't people be bothered about prejudice wherever it occurs?

I don't think DD will be able to answer that question.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by MrFun


95% of the time in my daily interaction with people, I feel no need to tell someone else that I'm gay -- be it at work, hanging out somewhere with friends, grocery store, or working out/exercising at the gym I go to, and so on.

That's good. I have known acquaintences where it seemed being gay was all that they were about and they would feel some deep need to make it the topic of dicsussion within two minutes of meeting you.

Usually most people have no need to know.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Agathon
On the other hand: why shouldn't people be bothered about prejudice wherever it occurs?

From the thread you linked to:

I know this is probably be considered vaguely prejudiced (says the man with a gay Canadian sleeping in his room...), but personally, I don't give a toss about your little GBLT guild (aside from the fact that the acronym reminds me more of some kind of delicious sandwich than it does of non-heterosexual people).

See, I don't see why people feel the need to bring any sort of sexuality into the game. Do I need to know, when I am rampaging around the place killing **** with you, if you're gay, or straight, or whatever? **** no. So therefore, the whole advertising the fact strikes me as kind of obtuse.

There's no real way, shape, or form, that you being gay, or straight, or a guy who ****s watermelons, should impact on the game that you're playing. Unless it's Furcadia, and then, you're a weirdo, and you're surrounded by weirdos, so I don't think anyone will care.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
From the thread you linked to:

I know this is probably be considered vaguely prejudiced (says the man with a gay Canadian sleeping in his room...), but personally, I don't give a toss about your little GBLT guild (aside from the fact that the acronym reminds me more of some kind of delicious sandwich than it does of non-heterosexual people).

See, I don't see why people feel the need to bring any sort of sexuality into the game. Do I need to know, when I am rampaging around the place killing **** with you, if you're gay, or straight, or whatever? **** no. So therefore, the whole advertising the fact strikes me as kind of obtuse.

There's no real way, shape, or form, that you being gay, or straight, or a guy who ****s watermelons, should impact on the game that you're playing. Unless it's Furcadia, and then, you're a weirdo, and you're surrounded by weirdos, so I don't think anyone will care.

Um... play the game. See some of the homophobic crap that goes on (people being booted out of guilds because they are gay).

People are asking to be allowed to advertise that their guild doesn't discriminate against gays, not that their guild is gay. Given the behaviour of many players there is a need for such guilds.

[Agathon]

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[Elok]

I think we'd be much more sympathetic if this were something enjoyable and exciting that's pleasant for most people. As opposed to, you know, World of Warcraft.

As for the Rosa Parks thing, well, there's a difference. When you are not allowed to use public transportation (a necessary service) with dignity by the government, that's pretty outrageous. When a privately run game restricts your freedom of expression marginally within the game itself (not protected by first amendment), well, that's one more good reason to stop playing the game, along with latency, massive crowds of morons, and utterly monotonous gameplay.

I also seem to recall your advocating book-burning at one point, which makes this whole rant of yours seem hypocritical. But that's a point for another thread.

[Dis]

does anyone else find the term gay friendly hilarious? I don't know what it is. But it's a silly phrase.

[Ben Kenobi]

It's like me complaining that folks call me a communist or Kenobi complaining about being called a Catholic or Fun complaining about being called gay...

Agathon, are guilds allowed to advertise as 'Christian friendly?'

I don't see why Blizzard shouldn't be allowed to restrict the speech on their site. It's the same principle of harrassment that you would support in removing foul language directed at people, especially if they were gay.

If you can support restriction of speech in one sense, (insults), I don't see why you would reject the restriction of speech in another.

Blizzard provides a gaming environment, for free, at their own cost. They have the right to do whatever they want with this gaming environment, just as you have the right not to play.

[DinoDoc]

I don't see what is wrong with the /ignore command WoW has as away to keep ****wits from ruining your experience.

[Last Conformist]

@BK: I have the right to call you an idiot all day long if I want to. It doesn't follow that doing so would be nice, or that you'd be unjustified in complaining about it.