Okay so, just to bring everyone up to speed:
In Yahtzee's "Papers, Please and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" ZP video, he made a joke relating to transsexuals.
A significant number of people took offence to this. So much so, that the comments thread exploded into arguments, and various hostilities.
The joke was:
"'Co-op single player' is like saying 'I'm not gay, I only suck off pre-op transsexuals'"
The video was later edited, and the joke was changed to:
"I'm not gay, I only suck off pantomime dames"
Yahtzee has said in his Extra Punctuation column, that he regrets the original version of the joke.
My question to you is; Should the joke have been changed? Was it offensive enough to be edited?
Did you personally find it offensive?
I'm of the opinion that the joke was fairly harmless. But then I'm not one to get offended at jokes anyway, so I dunno.
I'm interested in hearing what other people think. Particularly about the decision to edit the video and change it.
In Yahtzee's "Papers, Please and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" ZP video, he made a joke relating to transsexuals.
A significant number of people took offence to this. So much so, that the comments thread exploded into arguments, and various hostilities.
The joke was:
"'Co-op single player' is like saying 'I'm not gay, I only suck off pre-op transsexuals'"
The video was later edited, and the joke was changed to:
"I'm not gay, I only suck off pantomime dames"
Yahtzee has said in his Extra Punctuation column, that he regrets the original version of the joke.
My question to you is; Should the joke have been changed? Was it offensive enough to be edited?
Did you personally find it offensive?
I'm of the opinion that the joke was fairly harmless. But then I'm not one to get offended at jokes anyway, so I dunno.
I'm interested in hearing what other people think. Particularly about the decision to edit the video and change it.