Also, every prominent lore character is gay.

[pauraque_bk]

While I am working on that, chew upon this.

Little background, the WoW server I play on is one where a large number of GLBT players have congregated, basically because it was where the first gay-friendly guild was created, and then groups branched off of that, and so on. There are six or seven well-known GLBT-friendly guilds on the server. So on the server forums when a guild advertises that they are recruiting and that they are gay-friendly, it doesn't really cause a stir.

The latest had this reply:

Why do you even need GLBT guilds? Movie stars, actors, professional sports players play this game and they don't go flaunting who they are so why would anyone? j/w

I play with a few gay and %@%@**# people and they play just like normal people only really ignore one of them after he repeatedly called me "babe" which was just uncomfortable and distrurbing. But other than that they are just people and the only thing i really care about is if they suck at the game or they don't :).

The censored word is presumably "lesbian". Leaving aside why the WoW forums censor "lesbian" but not "gay", let's take a moment to reflect upon this post.

- Apparently, teh gheyz play just like NORMAL PEOPLE. OMIGOSH. It's almost like you can't tell the normal people from the freaks these days!

- It's okay to play with gay people as long as they don't say anything that might conceivably remind you of their sexuality, like calling you a cutesy name. Cutesy names are profoundly disturbing and force you to contemplate buttsex.

- Why oh why must people flaunt who they are? Why can't they just assimilate so completely into the dominant group that their identity becomes thoroughly whitewashed and neutralized, and thus nonthreatening to me? GOD WHY.

- Gay people are just like movie stars and professional sports players somehow.

The more you know!

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Why do you even need GLBT guilds? Movie stars, actors, professional sports players play this game and they don't go flaunting who they are so why would anyone? j/w

I suppose the answer "Why do you even think having an GLBT giuld is "flaunting" who we are?" is too obvious?

[pauraque]

I'm still trying to figure out the movie star comment, which is pretty opaque to me. Maybe he meant that if a famous person were playing, they would not tell anyone who they were, because it would cause a big stir and inhibit their ability to play with everyone else. Which is like the obligation of gay people to keep their identity under wraps so as not to make this guy uncomfortable... I think...