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Ugh ok homophobe. Ugh did your father or mother teach you to be straight? When did this talk occur? Oh ya, that's what I thought. Your FEAR of somebody telling your son what "gay" speaks volumes about your homophobia.
What dmb said is not homophobic at all. It's a preference. Saying "I don't want my children to learn about homosexuality through XBL, he can learn when he's older" is different from saying "I don't want my children to learn about homosexuality at all. I want to completely hide and shelter him from all aspects of homosexuality for the rest of his life", which is not what he said at all.
He simply does not feel that his son is old enough to start learning about homosexuality, especially on XBL. How is that homophobic? There are people who don't want their children to read the bible, go to church or pray to god. They don't discriminate against Christians or those that do read the Bible, they just prefer that they and their Children do not participate in the Christian religion. Does that make them Anti-Christians? Does that mean that they have an irrational fear/hate (as is a phobia) of Christians? No, it simply means that their preferences are to not participate in Christian religion. Just because DMB said he doesn't want his 10 year old learning about homosexuality at 10, doesn't mean he's being homophobic.
In the same way, it's kinda like how your parents don't tell you (at least they shouldn't) about the Birds and the Bees until they feel you're old enough. Would you want someone explaining to a 10 year old how to have sex and get a girl pregnant on XBL? Would you want someone explaining to a 10 year old how gay men have sex and why they can't have babies? XBL is not really the place to learn life lessons, especially from someone you really don't know at all....
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Facts: Heterosexuality is oftens backed up with an unatural sense of masculinity. Thus, why men are so violent. While the "gaygamer" gets scapegoated.
Why don't you start thinking for yourself, bigot.
Where did you get the masculinity bit from? Completely irrelevant. Which men are violent? All men are violent? Does that include the homosexual men? Are you saying homosexual men can't be masculine too?
It sounds to be like you're thinking at all, and the name calling doesn't help your weak argument much either.
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I wonder what other aspects of humanity you shelter from your children... but I am sure they are allowed to play games rated M with head tearing off action, hell if they were playing games designed for kids their own age I doubt they would ever run into someone who has discovered their sexuality, not too many sexually aware viva pinata players.
Very weak argument. How do you have any idea what kind of games his kids are allowed to play? Just because most of the games you know are M-rated head chopping shooters, doesn't mean his kid doesn't play other non-violent games. Your ignorance is further demonstrated by your ability to only list Viva Pinata as a game designed for kids.
http://www.target.com/Xbox-360-E-Rated-Vid...p;node=16075351There's quite a few E-rated games there that both little kids, teenagers, and grown adults could be playing online (namely the sports games). Burnout Paradise too. Why would 10 year old DMB junior want to learn about men holding hands after a round of NBA Live 08?
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So, anyone with black,white,red,yellow or any other color descriptive word in their GT has to be banned too right? Those words could be used to describe a race, which is against the TOS?
It depends on the full gamertag. The whole situation here is how a word is interpreted. In America, the word Gay can be interpreted to mean happy, homosexual, or stupid (like when people say "that's gay", but aren't really talking about something homosexual). Most people interpret gay as meaning homosexual.
Black,white, red, yellow, or any other color word can only describe a race with other describing words attached to it.
If your gamertag is YellowAndBlackMustangGT, no one's going to think of your race, they're going to think of your car.
If your gamertag is BlackGamer808, your gamertag will get banned. If somehow it doesn't get banned, you'd certainly get flamed to hell anyways.
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Why does being gay equate sex? This is a crazy notion. The gamertag clearly refers to the love of another man. How dare Microsoft ban this while hatred runs ramped in more gamertags than not.
That statement is very contradictory and very ridiculous.
There is no question that the gamer involved in this situation wanted the "gayer" in his name to represent his sexual orientation. Why are people still trying to say that there's a different meaning to the word gay? If that's how the guy wanted it to be used, then that's how it should be looked at.
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I fail to see where 'gay' is a slur, especially if the guy happens to be gay. Anything can be considered 'offensive' to somebody out there.
Very easy.
Westward Elementary school in Middleton, Virginia (I just made that up, I don't think it exists)
Lunchtime. The 3rd grade kids are at the playground. Bully Tim gathers his friends and says, let's all pick on Little Johnny.
A minute later, Little Johnny is surrounded by Bully Tim and his henchmen being called "gay", "queer", "faggot", and other similar names.
The school principal comes to the playground, breaks up the circle and takes Bully Tim and all his friends to his office.
He asks Bully Tim and his friends where they learned such foul language at such a young age.
One by one, they all eventually reveal that they learned those names by hearing other people say them to a certain player (By the gamertag of "theGAYERgamer") after an intense, neck-to-neck race in Burnout Paradise.
But don't worry, Little Johnny wasn't permanently hurt by the situation. In fact, he's now a very sucessful multi-platinum record producer.
Little Johnny all grown upand so on and so on. Excuse the lame story, but you get the point. You might not find it offensive, but others will. Little kids aren't ready to handle things like homosexuality, especially on XBL...
This post has been edited by Trevante: May 16 2008, 06:01 PM
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