Adoptive Parents Call Portal 2 Jokes Offensive to Orphans
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What...really? This is a joke right? Right?
*headdesk*
(I'm serious I thought this was a joke when I first read it...)
*headdesk*
(I'm serious I thought this was a joke when I first read it...)
People who take offense at anything are weakening the species with their very existence. Other's right to express themselves is more important than an individual/group's right to feel important by bitching and moaning about having a thin skin. It offends me...... wait a minute.
That's the problem with society today, they're too worried that their precious little angel will kill him or herself if he or she so much as walks out the front door. But then again, can you really blame them? What with child protection breathing down their necks every second it's amazing that parents even have kids. (The responsible ones anyway.)
What?
Come on, it's not as if the game can tell whether or not you're fat, adopted, etc. and cater the insult to the player. It's a cheap little pot-shot from an insane antagonist.
That insult is the type that little grade-schoolers would use whether or not the kid it's directed towards is adopted. Have we human beings really become so thin-skinned that we take scripted insults at the main character of a video game this personally?
I honestly don't think it helps the daughter to blow this out of proportion either. He's practically proving to her that someone acknowledging the fact that she's adopted (which wasn't even the case in this incident) is supposed to be some sort of grave insult.
Come on, it's not as if the game can tell whether or not you're fat, adopted, etc. and cater the insult to the player. It's a cheap little pot-shot from an insane antagonist.
That insult is the type that little grade-schoolers would use whether or not the kid it's directed towards is adopted. Have we human beings really become so thin-skinned that we take scripted insults at the main character of a video game this personally?
I honestly don't think it helps the daughter to blow this out of proportion either. He's practically proving to her that someone acknowledging the fact that she's adopted (which wasn't even the case in this incident) is supposed to be some sort of grave insult.
Yes i will agree the statements Glados and Wheatley make about orphans can be a little, and i mean only a little offensive to young orphans. But that's why they said them, to try and insult the main character. and besides if the guy had played Portal, its kinda expected that all the insults Glados spews will possibly insult at least one person of every group. Its what she does after all, test, insult, and incinerate humans.
people (especially if you are in US) love to exaggerate even small details.Player Two said:
I think most of them are malevolent, and want to use these kind of events for their profits.
your daughter is not offended, but you are offended - the question should be: "why".
exaggerating this event and carrying it to the media, will just be a disadvantage for your kid. because people in the school will probably mock her.
must everything be politically corrected? no.
Srrsly. You are straight up informed that everyone else has been killed by evil robots and science.Space Spoons said:
Look, it's not about mountains and molehills or any of that nonsense.
Making fun of obese people is borderline but okay, seeing as they do it to themselves and it is a lifestyle choice. Wait. No. Stop. It is. Nobody ever got fat behind their own back; there's a lot of opportunity to pull out of the project. There's no such thing as big-boned (or rather, people who have big bones have them because they are fat, and the body needs to buttress the extra weight and...just read this short article [http://scienceblog.com/43858/overweight-people-really-are-big-boned/] if you don't believe me). There's no such thing as genetic markers that make people more susceptible to obesity; we all have those same markers. The only markers that increase probability of obesity are environmental ones: your parents letting you eat like a hog, adapting rather than responding to the social cues of peers when they make fun of you, ignoring doctors (or not going to the doctors for fear of reprisal) when they tell you it's unhealthy...ETC., ETC., ETC.
Being adopted is not something you can control, and it always leaves a psychological mark that makes you question your own value. This can be dealt with, and overcome, with support from family, and in some extreme cases, therapy...but that doesn't mean it's proper for a major video game publisher making a game rated for everyone to poke fun at adopted kids. Not only is it poking fun at adopted kids, but it's actually insinuating that they are, in fact, defective (the primary emotional worry for adopted children). The primary thing about it all is that adoption revolves around abandonment of an innocent, for whatever the reason, which takes it a step further than just jibing. Whoever wrote that joke in was either an insensitive bully themselves, or adopted themselves, and wanted to show just how cruel insensitive bullies can be.
Imagine if the joke had instead been about skin color. "Alright fatty. Casper fatty. Fatty fatty red-eye." Or, "Alright, fatty. Coon fatty. Fatty fatty swampbuck..." It's the same thing, even if there are no slurs to describe adopted children. It is isolating something about someone that is out of their control and that has probably caused them pain before the age of reason.
Should they get sued over it? No. Should they get bad press over it? Maybe. Should they go in and do a one-day patch that takes the joke out of the game? I think so.
Should they get an oversight committee to ensure their writing staff acts with a level of decorum that renders situations like this moot? Abso-fucking-lutely.
It's just very tacky, Valve. Indelicate, crude, tactless, and just outright in poor taste.
Making fun of obese people is borderline but okay, seeing as they do it to themselves and it is a lifestyle choice. Wait. No. Stop. It is. Nobody ever got fat behind their own back; there's a lot of opportunity to pull out of the project. There's no such thing as big-boned (or rather, people who have big bones have them because they are fat, and the body needs to buttress the extra weight and...just read this short article [http://scienceblog.com/43858/overweight-people-really-are-big-boned/] if you don't believe me). There's no such thing as genetic markers that make people more susceptible to obesity; we all have those same markers. The only markers that increase probability of obesity are environmental ones: your parents letting you eat like a hog, adapting rather than responding to the social cues of peers when they make fun of you, ignoring doctors (or not going to the doctors for fear of reprisal) when they tell you it's unhealthy...ETC., ETC., ETC.
Being adopted is not something you can control, and it always leaves a psychological mark that makes you question your own value. This can be dealt with, and overcome, with support from family, and in some extreme cases, therapy...but that doesn't mean it's proper for a major video game publisher making a game rated for everyone to poke fun at adopted kids. Not only is it poking fun at adopted kids, but it's actually insinuating that they are, in fact, defective (the primary emotional worry for adopted children). The primary thing about it all is that adoption revolves around abandonment of an innocent, for whatever the reason, which takes it a step further than just jibing. Whoever wrote that joke in was either an insensitive bully themselves, or adopted themselves, and wanted to show just how cruel insensitive bullies can be.
Imagine if the joke had instead been about skin color. "Alright fatty. Casper fatty. Fatty fatty red-eye." Or, "Alright, fatty. Coon fatty. Fatty fatty swampbuck..." It's the same thing, even if there are no slurs to describe adopted children. It is isolating something about someone that is out of their control and that has probably caused them pain before the age of reason.
Should they get sued over it? No. Should they get bad press over it? Maybe. Should they go in and do a one-day patch that takes the joke out of the game? I think so.
Should they get an oversight committee to ensure their writing staff acts with a level of decorum that renders situations like this moot? Abso-fucking-lutely.
It's just very tacky, Valve. Indelicate, crude, tactless, and just outright in poor taste.