Vhite said:
I think 'hypocrisy' is the word you are looking for.
Screw masses of people that died in inhumane conditions, someone is doubting my sexuality!
Gender, not sexuality. And transgender people are disproportionately more likely to commit suicide or be murdered over who they are than most other minorities, so... y'know.
And no, it's not hypocrisy. It's not hypocritical for something to be offended by something that relates to me (and some of my friends) personally. It might be closer to hypocrisy if I laughed at the holocaust joke (note: I didn't even hear it!), but chances are I wouldn't have. It would be even closer if I made that joke, but again, I didn't.
Transgender people are one of the minorities where jokes/comments like Yahtzee's have a real-world effect, because they feed in to all these misconceptions and ignorant beliefs that transpeople are doing it for sex, or that they're freaks, or that they're truly still men despite presenting and identifying as women. And those are hurtful things, because they're not true at all.
I've 'watched' Yahtzee for many years now, and as such I am fully aware of how offensive he can be (such as the last half of Mogworld being complete trash - OHHHHHH!), but that doesn't mean it's somehow my fault for being offended. Yahtzee said something I was not comfortable with (nor were other people, judging by some of the feedback in this topic) and I stood up and said it made *me* uncomfortable.