03-14-2013, 05:07 PM | #31 |
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You've all sadly missed the point and we've lost new players because of it.
Allowing the use of the word gay as a snyonym for 'undesirable quality' will make many gay people feel unwelcome. Even if you don't mean it that way, how is a gay person supposed to know that? Since many gay people are beaten, abused and shunned for being the way they are, it is logical for them to assume that people who use gay in a derogatory sense hate them. Instead of gay, imagine this same argument about the n-word in america. Should black americans just 'toughen up' and assume that when white people use this word they are using it in a nice way and don't actually want to lynch them? |
03-14-2013, 05:29 PM | #32 |
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I still feel that this matter is blown out of proportion. And I don't think I missed the point. This game is reasonably mature and has a crowd to suit.
I have seen faaaar worse in almost every other MMORPG I have ever played and in a much more corrosive fashion. Does this mean that everyone who is "gay" stop playing MMORPGS? I doubt. I feel that anyone who is comfortable in being homosexual and actually watches the chats in this game would realise that any assertion here is almost in a fun loving way and excludes any kind of violence for the most part. In fact any kind of subversive tone is covered in the Terms of service and is dealt with if reported. The issue of Gelfs meaning "gay elves" and anyone being seriously affected by this is a hypersensitive person and may find life very difficult in any MMORPG. Regnum Online is tame compared to many others. On a side note of the n word. I have noticed that people of African descent use that word far more than white people actually use it. And, they use it on each other . Go figure. In my home country and my specific island which is 90% black, the term is thrown about regularly. You almost never hear a white person utter it. Perspective Perspective ... tsk tsk. TL;DR : A non issue. Get over it. |
03-14-2013, 05:31 PM | #33 |
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They weren't going to get far anways. In another thread he said they would play Regnum only during "off-nights". I wouldn't be able to see them getting any further than lvl 30.
Also this is the internet. If you get depressed when somebody calls you gay, leave.
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03-14-2013, 06:19 PM | #34 |
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Actually, you're all wrong. Gay elves means everyone in Syrtis is happy, merry.
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03-14-2013, 06:20 PM | #35 | |
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03-14-2013, 06:22 PM | #36 |
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They call us gelf, we call them pigs and goats.
I don't see a problem. Because I'm an Alturian.
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03-14-2013, 08:27 PM | #37 | |
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Faggot = nigger The first two are not inherently demeaning; you have to make them so. The second two are inherently demeaning. Your analogy sucks anyway. Black people should just "toughen up". Racism will continue to exist when you don't let go of the past. |
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03-14-2013, 08:39 PM | #38 | |
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Gelf seems infinitely less derogatory than Pig. Im a lamai. Im not a pig.
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03-14-2013, 09:11 PM | #39 |
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Silence, pig!
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03-14-2013, 09:19 PM | #40 |
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But....but....but....Im not a pig.
My ears are too big, I dont have a stout nose, and I hate playing in the mud. Really.
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