I believe you are misunderstanding what I was saying. Allow me to clarify.Cheeze_Pavilion said:No it isn't--you really think anyone's going to stop paying for Xbox Live after finding out there's a lesbian on there?Andraste said:That is exactly the truth, very insightful with that parenthetical.Jamash said:I agree with you, that it's the greater evil of the bigots who complained against her, which got her ToU violation noticed by Microsoft, that is the real issue here, not that she got banned for being a lesbian.
Microsoft can be accused of being many things, but I don't think homophobic is one of them (it's just not profitable to alienate a large section of society).
If Microsoft thought it wouldn't be profitable to allow behavior on Xbox Live that alienates a large section of society...they wouldn't have included microphones.
I do not think people will stop paying if there is a lesbian there. I DO think (and some people have said on this very thread) some people may stop paying if MS were to ban people for being gay. So it makes sense MS would not ban people for being gay.
And as the ToU disallow people from posting anything sex-related, not only was she breaking the terms of service, I suspect MS was trying to nip anything of this sort in the bud, as they don't want to have it remotely suggested they ban people for being gay. Or Chinese. Or purple. Just don't bring it up.