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Old 04-20-2013, 12:47 PM   #34
Gesslar
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Re: Finding a Place to Call Home: Communities Tolerant & Accepting of Gay Gamers

You have got to be joking that the level of privacy inherent with letting someone know the gender of your significant other is the same as divulging credit card information.

Also, it's not a true statement that you're playing with random strangers. And to say that one should just shut up and not talk about themselves in a social environment is by definition telling someone to stay closeted to protect themselves. This is not a healthy stance to promote. People should feel safe in communicating with others in a social settings. The statement "who cares?" is definitely a proper attitude, because it shouldn't be a point, but the fact is that it is and that's what needs to be addressed. If you prefer to game with other people and just treat them as if they're just a really good AI NPCs and not interact with them as actual people, that's cool, and perfectly within your rights, but people are social animals and when interacting with other people they like to feel that their "what-should-be-non-issues" are treated as such. And in fact, a lot of the problems are not necessarily someone being specifically targeted and attacked, it's the general atmosphere and the comments that someone who is gay endures by virtue of chatter surrounding them which is unacceptable but often goes ignored by those with the ability to correct it.

Last edited by Gesslar : 04-20-2013 at 01:01 PM. Reason: expanding upon comments
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