Anti-Gay Email Campaign Floods Electronic Arts

[Merlark]

I don't really understand these people, I mean I completely understand why homosexuality makes them feel uncomfortable. What I fail to process is this whole save the children thing, I mean they do know that of these thousands of parents a certain percentage of their own children are homosexual right? I mean that's just a statistic of numbers, what exactly I don't know but are they saying they love their children enough to protect them from homosexuality when thats just what they are...I mean that's like protecting them from sex in general, its a driven desire which parents should understand because duh, they had kids and that involves sex.

This protective logic doesn't seem to actually help anyone that they care about because if their children are not gay learning that homosexuals have relationships together in the real world will not make them gay and if they are well...doesn't that make them more comfortable then living in a closet?

At the heart of the subject isn't the comfort and well being of said family's the root of the concern?

Further more gays have been around for thousands of years, they don't disappear because we make it socially unacceptable which again doesn't make any sense to do. I don't ask straight couples what nasty things they are doing to each other in the privacy of their own bedrooms, this seems to be natural among straight people, so why do they care that homosexuals are doing the same thing that they don't need to know about?

I feel bad for the children in these family's that their parents don't actually care who they are only what they are suppose to be in their eyes.

 

[doggy go 7]

this makes me laugh and then makes me depressed.

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

What? They might boycott? Oh no! We all know that bigoted right-wing wackadoos were Bioware's target demographic! Now they'll have to starve!

In all due seriousness, they're gonna have to do a lot better than sending a few emails and threatening not to buy games that(let's be honest)most of this group wouldn't be buying anyway to shake Bioware at all.

This sorta hits me where I live because personally,as a bisexual, the ability to role a bisexual character GREATLY enhanced my roleplay experience and ended up making the Dragon Age series one of my all-time favorites. I would be DEEPLY offended if Bioware took the option out of future titles purely for political reasons.

And I know that sounds silly and shallow, but before Bioware there weren't a lot of games that gave this kind of option, and the one's that did generally offered it as a footnote, or a couple of lines dialogue. Bioware's games not only give you the option to have sex with the same gender, they also give you the option to have RELATIONSHIPS with the same sex. Not just kinky hot lesbian action. Not just Hawke and Anders brokebacking in his Hightown Estate. Legitimate(albeit fictional)relationships. Personally I think that it's a very important and very progressive thing for both the gaming community, and the LGBT community.

But let's be honest guys, if Bioware ever really did remove same-sex content, or choose to discontinue it, the counter-boycott would be much worse(in that it would actually affect sale's figures. At all.) So really these guys can kick and scream and cry all they want. I don't see this having much of an affect on Bioware's game plans

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

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(sorry for the double post. Accident.)

 

[Xenowolf]

Yeah, e-mails. A load of people completely outside ME3's target demographic "protest" by sending e-mails. Like that will work.

 

[FamoFunk]

It's sad and pathetic enough when these people target real-life people. But a game, that isn't real? Come on -_-

 

[Orekoya]

Alright then- Family values nutters, time for a Lesson in the economy.

When you DO NOT BUY THE PRODUCT TO BEGIN WITH you cannot boycott it. If i disagreed with the giant pink dildo company, i cannot boycott them because i do not buy the products. Similarly if you do not buy games you cannot boycott them.

actually a lesson in economy to you: by not buying the product that you otherwise would you are boycotting it automatically.

I already explained this to be wrong [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.363191-Anti-Gay-Email-Campaign-Floods-Electronic-Arts?page=3#14229409]. But I can explain it again: boycotting doesn't mean not buying something, it's the act of not buying or consuming as an expression of protest. And for such protests to have any meaning you have to be part of the initial market that would buy or consume in the first place, or at best lead others who are part of said market away from it.

 

[Caverat]

I love that since open racism is no longer tolerated, bigots now sling their shit at gays. I mean, I'm sure the organizers of that 'Family Values Foundation' or whatever the fuck still have their Klan rallies on weekends, they are just aware enough to recognize that most people wouldn't approve of their white robes.

Well, it won't be long before homophobia goes the way of the Dodo, and these people will than have to hate on extra-terrestrial forms of life or something. Can't wait to hear how the existence of microbial life on Europa is a threat to " 'merican" family values.

 

[Olas]

Poor EA, even when they do something RIGHT they get flack for it.

 

[tehroc]

I'm sick of Bioware shoe-horning a gay romance into everyone of their games.

I know right! The only thing worse is the way they keep forcing hetero romances into their games, there's one in ,like, every game! Geez Bioware, way to cram your straight lifestyle down our throats.

They are all really shitty too. Pick the right 3 options and they jump into your pants. That's really moving. Wouldn't it be awesome if our real romances were that simple?

 

[Legion]

I would have figured gay groups would protest because Shepard suddenly chose to be gay in the third game after being straight for the first two...

Don't recall Shepard ever saying they were straight in the first two. Wasn't aware the option even existed. Also wasn't aware that Shepard had any homosexual males to even speak to about it.

 

[orangeban]

I'm sick of Bioware shoe-horning a gay romance into everyone of their games.

I know right! The only thing worse is the way they keep forcing hetero romances into their games, there's one in ,like, every game! Geez Bioware, way to cram your straight lifestyle down our throats.

They are all really shitty too. Pick the right 3 options and they jump into your pants. That's really moving. Wouldn't it be awesome if our real romances were that simple?

I know that when I meet a possible boning partner, first thing I do is try to figure out if they're paragon or renegade!

"Hmm, will this person appreciate me being nice, or being a dick?"

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

So funny, being that you only had a gay relationship if you wanted to. So if you had a straight relationship in the game then you would never have seen the gay relationships anyway.

 

[mysecondlife]

Meh. EA doesn't listen to its customers anyways. (Hopefully) they won't cave into anti-gay protest.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

I still struggle to understand what they have against gays. I mean The Greeks and Romans were okay with homosexuality and they did pretty well for themselves.

They were also into pedophilia...

As a Classics student I can say that the idea that the Ancient Greeks and Romans were completely fine with homosexuality is just not true. I wish they were that tolerant, but their attitude to it was a bit more complicated than that!

Well, to say that "the Ancient Greeks were completely fine" with anything is downright stupid because the Ancient Greeks were a bunch of City States that had different cultures and value systems. Though I will point out that the Spartans seemed pretty okay with homosexuality, perhaps to their detriment considering part of what ultimately lead to their fall was the fact that the slave population greatly outnumbered their own.

 

[Omnific One]

They ***** about the lesbian/gay relationships, but not the fact that people get stabbed, eviscerated, shot, blown up, set on fire, electrocuted, frozen, blown up again, and shot again?

Good stuff.

If these are "family values," then I hate them.

Also, I technically pursue a gay relationship (Femshep and Liara on some playthroughs), but I'm still straight. Huh.

 

[PrototypeC]

Of all the wonderfully horrible things to bombard EA with, you choose this? For shame.