Question of the Day, March 24, 2010

[Quiet Stranger]

You should be able to, but I can't see how it would be tasteful. All you would ever see are gamertags like:

No... I better not go down that road, I don't want to offend anyone.

you were going to say Lesbian101? or something like that, its really not as bad as you probably think it is

I was thinking of something a little less tasteful than that. Because you can guarantee that someone will have a rather rude username and then play the whole "repressing my sexuality" card when someone finds it offensive.

Yeah you're probably right, it IS Xbox Live, PSN, and Wii...well nevermind that last one

 

[jebussaves88]

If people really want to be identifiable by one aspect of themselves which is totally irrelevant to the thing in which they are participating, then they can be free to do so as far as I care. I just don't understand it though. StraightJebusSaves88 just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[rezboyjoey]

Let me be clear that I am not an intolerant person. In my eyes you are free to do whatever you want, however you want, with whoever you want regardless of gender. The one condition to this is I do not want to hear about it, I do not want to see it, I do not want to know it exists. Keep your sex life in another room (preferably one in a different city) and we can co-exist in peace.

Edit: *Insert "man you haven't gotten any in _____ have you?" joke here.*

 

[Dahni]

if they can find a tasteful way in which to express their sexuality then they can go right ahead. I just can't think of any way they possibly could.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Sexual Preference part of a screen name...?

I don't think I've ever seen it in practice but why not...

If someone wants everyone to see what their sexual preference is, it would be better having it in their screen name than having them announce it every chance they get...

Most people would see the internet as a chance to be annonomous and therefore wouldn't put alot of revealing facts in their screen name, for example have you ever seen something like "24yearold_fromLondon"? A screen name should be a name, not a description. If you gonna reveal your sexuality when not your religion or job? "GayChristianInsuranceSalesman_fromManhatten_whoDrivesAFord" has added you as a friend is a bit odd don't you think...

Really I don't care, I won't complain about any screen name but I'm not gonna change my screen name to "Straight_Spacefly"

 

[AvsJoe]

I don't see why this would be a bad thing. Consider the alternative which would be censoring an entire group of people which is much worse than a couple of idiots with Gayhaterz609 or I_Kick_Gays21 as their usernames.

 

[Deleted]

Its a bad idea because if you want people to care about your sexual orientation you're an attention whore. Seriously nobody here gives a fuck that you're gay, you're not starting a revolution.

If your main trait is that you're a playa or you're homosexual then you don't have much of a personality.

 

[Burningsok]

I have no problem with it at all. Unless it's something that would offend a lot of people.

 

[cainx10a]

I think it's stupid, but if that helps people of a specific sexual orientation to find each other, and help form communities ... wait ... guess it's not a stupid idea after all. My pokemon-sexual friends ... where are thou? want to talk about Vulpix fashion?

Wait ... that's totally my inner-vulpix typing.

 

[Aerodynamic]

No.

Because no one really cares if you are gay or not.

 

[Weaver]

I don't care what they do, but I think it's kind of bad when the main thing you identify yourself with is your sexual orientation.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I don't see why it should be outlawed, though at the same time I'm not really sure why someone would choose to use it. Then again, I'm not sure why a lot of people choose to put what is in their user names in their user names in general.

 

[internetzealot1]

No. Cause then we'd get names like "Pu55yMagn3t" and "1 L1K3 D1X"

 

[nohorsetown]

Yeah, sure, of course. Sexual preference is no big deal. But remember: "GayGamer81" is just as bad a screen name as "HaloFan92" or "BlackGuy78" or "SexyGrrl666". Permit everything, all the time, no worries.. sometimes a screen name says something about a person, and often, it says just how damn uncreative they are. That works for me. I thank these people for wearing their "hearts" on their sleeves.

 

[Bagaloo]

I voted no.

It's not relevant in the slightest. I get that your sexuality might be a huge part of who you are, but when we are sitting 5000 miles apart and our aim is to blow each other up with an array of virtual weaponry, why the heck should I care or want to be informed about your sexuality?

 

[Eri]

No. There is no reason I need to know who you want to have relations with. Don't care. Don't need to inform me.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

if they can find a tasteful way in which to express their sexuality then they can go right ahead. I just can't think of any way they possibly could.

Like I said earlier, just have it as a tag/badge. It's still denoting without broadcasting.

 

[bassdrum]

I see no problem with this. Indeed, the only way I can see this NOT being okay is if some bigoted jackass on XBL or PSN (or wherever, I'm too lazy to list off all the possible screen names someone can have) uses it as an excuse to go on a homophobic (or perhaps heterophobic, i guess that's technically possible too) rampage.

So basically, it's the douches of the world that ruin everything.