Microsoft Okays Sexual Orientation in Gamertags

[emh204]

Who realy cares if your a gay gamer just shut the fuck up i meant realy what next

 

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[brtshstel]

Xbox Live isn't exactly the place anybody, male or female, straight or gay, should go if they are emotionally sensitive. That place is full of racist language and profanity, and hearing somebody casually called a "fag" or "gay" by some idiot kid is pretty common.

At the same time, they may become the next "woman gamers," where it's wrong to kill their character in CoD because they are a girl in predominantly male demographic of gamers. If I happen to kill the character of a homosexual gamer because they just happen to be in the same area as me, then I don't want to called a homophobe. I also don't want to be kicked off their server because they think I'm singling out gay players.

Seriously, it's video game. I couldn't care less what your sexual orientation, or gender for that matter, happens to be. As long as you aren't a noob who kicks me off your server for beating you, or use your orientation as a weapon, you can be a Martian for all I care.

 

[Sodoff]

the problem isen't that gay people wanted to announce their sexuality to the world.. but that one gamer was banned because of it.


I agree sexuality and gaming really has nothing to do with eachother. But If people want it in their gaming tags why shoulden't it be allowed?. If you dont want to read about it then don't.

 

[The Unskilled78]

That's good. Now, I won't need to wonder if my insulting the sexuality of someone is just repeating truth.

 

[AceDiamond]

People seem to be of the opinion that it's not necessary to have all this information in their gamer tag. While they may be true I think what a lot of these people wanted was just the option to do it. Before it was strictly against the rules so if they did they got in trouble for it... A person shouldn't get in trouble for explaining a part of who they are.

Except that I still fail to see why it should matter to them so damn much that they should let people they play with know what their sexual orientation is. I'm sure that ranks way high up on everybody's "Must know" list about their clan/guildmates, right after "can they play well"

My point is there's a difference between taking pride in who you are and just being obnoxious about it, and this would be the latter.

It matters because it's a part of who we are. People say that XBL isn't a social network... except it is. You use it to connect to the internet and play games online with other people. It can be used as a way to make friends can't it? I mean you play a game with someone that's particularly awesome, you guys work well together or something and eventually form a friendship... This kinda information can be important then. You may feel otherwise but obviously others feel this kinda thing is important.

Can't you just let them have their moment?

The point is that if we want this to be a better place for all we shouldn't be labeling people. Also in terms of people of the GLBT community having their moments, they get one about once a year, you don't see straight people demanding their moments (idiots demanding the "sanctity of marriage" being protected doesn't count, they aren't real people), what entitles anybody to "have a moment"? Who thinks Microsoft owes the GLBT community for having a policy that prevented even straight people from talking about how straight they are? You don't hear bicurious males such as myself naming themselves "MightLikeDudes23", it's getting ridiculous. For as much as people think this is a good thing, it isn't. It just continues to allow people to be defined solely by their orientation. I have made friends with plenty of people without finding out what their orientation was first. Perhaps because i'm not stupidly shallow and treat people like the plague because they don't have the same tastes as me.

Worst part is that people such as myself who are "orientation indifferent", as in I don't care what orientation a person is because it doesn't make them less of a person, will be seen as part of the problem because we aren't in support of beating someone over the head with your sexual preference.

 

[Canebrake]

I can see it now...

Gamer tag "Gaycapper147". A capper being slang for someone Incapacitated.(They use it too,or is that one of those "N-word" things, where they call each other it but if a Caucasian says it he/she is racist?)

I could see people hiding under the Incapacitated umbrella while still making naive people (gay or otherwise) extremely pissed, And evading the bans that would follow.

That would be one hell of a troll man..

 

[FFHAuthor]

Gah, just necro-threaded...never mind.