Anti-Gay Email Campaign Floods Electronic Arts
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You're joking, right? I mean, homosexuality was prevalent among some of the other Greek City-States as was already mentioned. They weren't particularly "rigid."Myrmecodon said:
Not to mention, Bryan Singer wasn't behind the homosexual parallels in the X-Men series, given it existed years before there was a movie series. And Singer wasn't involved in the X-Men movie you cited, specifically BECAUSE he was on the Superman movie. I can't even begin to see how Superman Returns makes more sense with Singer's sexuality factored in.
In short: Please be joking.
Thousands of emails?
THOUSANDS OF EMAILS?
I don't even understand homophobes, much less do I understand how there are so many of them.
THOUSANDS OF EMAILS?
I don't even understand homophobes, much less do I understand how there are so many of them.
What kind of drugs are you on? Or rather what drugs are you not taking that your psychiatrist told you to take? Assuming the data is correct, there's the "small" problem that being statistically more likely to suffer from some kind of disease doesn't mean that the person is actually suffering from that disease. When people tell a male homosexual that they're healthy and normal they're not "enabling his gay space fantasies" but telling that being a homosexual is not in itself a disease or weird in the sense of being wrong.Myrmecodon said:
No-one is telling anyone that is, for a fact, suffering from a disease or a mental illness that they're healthy and normal, and I have difficulty of believing you actually made that comparison. I mean, you're comparing to being gay to being mentally sick. You're not very self-conscious, are you?
say what you want about EA, at least they try to touch sensitive topics, relevant to our current society
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this is why i don't go to church! these "family values" tossers always try and find the negative, jesus christ could tell them to their face that gay is ok and that would then call him evil. what we should all do when these pants on head moron's start speaking bullshit is: ignore them and the do the exact opposite. remember they want you to fight, just makes them feel empowered. sad really, we should get them all a huge padded cell......
Because one is suffering from a well known mental illness that can be medicated with prescription drugs and psychiatric treatment and can be seriously harmful to the person themselves and others by itself, while the other is a common deviation from the default in which gender is more attractive that is not harmful to anyone even if you think every homosexual is HIV positive, since considering your own sex sexually attractive doesn't mean having a sexually active life.Myrmecodon said:
Not my point. There's a long standing tradition in homophobic circles to insist that being gay is the same thing as being mentally damaged/retarded/sick. None of which has been supported by psychiatrists at large. So you making a comparison between being a homosexual and being schizophrenic implies a strong lack of self-awareness and knowledge of this behaviour. Saying stuff like that can make you appear to be homophobic. Which of course ceases to be an issue if you actually are.Myrmecodon said:
Man, Stephen Fry is so immature. And Neil Patrick Harris is having so many deviant sexual acts with numerous people all the time. I suspect your perspective is getting skewed because you haven't realised being gay doesn't mean being flamboyant. Or your sources are horribly skewed and you're being too trusting.
Stuff like the Grindr start making sense the second you realise that only 5-10% of the population are gay. I imagine it being a bit tricky to find someone when the person you're hitting on is very likely straight and possibly willing to punch you just for asking. I have difficulty believing there's no similar program for heterosexuals and it just didn't have a newsworthy name so no-one has bothered making a big deal of it.
This debate is still going on?
being gay is natural and you are born with it.
Other people being gay does not affect you in the least, so stop complaining about it.
being gay is natural and you are born with it.
Other people being gay does not affect you in the least, so stop complaining about it.
The timing of this is way too convenient. Methinks EA is trying to make it look like homophobes are the reason it won worst company in America.
"My family and I were disappointed to learn that BioWare and Electronic Arts plan to add LGBT content to Star Wars video games.
American families grew up with the Star Wars film series that was family fare. The films contained no profanity, no nudity and no sexual situations. (Seriously what did they actually do during Return of the Jedi?)
It makes no sense that BioWare and Electronic Arts would shatter that family quality in Star Wars video games just to pacify 35 LGBT polling participants and appease extremists.
Star Wars video games are for children. An overwhelming percentage of the 1.7 million games sold are being used by children who do not need to be exposed to this propaganda. Please stick to your policy to avoid such advocacy representations in your games.
Please tell us that it is not too late to stop this from impacting our children.
I look forward to sharing your response with family and friends.
Thank you."
Man they must be some boring families if their idea of fun is gathering around the dinner table and talking about all the companies they pestered through automatic emails. EA won't give in mostly because several thousand people is like a drop of water in the ocean that is 1.7 million people (lest when I googled it)
I don't think it's convenient timing at all, sometimes when it rains, it's pours.
American families grew up with the Star Wars film series that was family fare. The films contained no profanity, no nudity and no sexual situations. (Seriously what did they actually do during Return of the Jedi?)
It makes no sense that BioWare and Electronic Arts would shatter that family quality in Star Wars video games just to pacify 35 LGBT polling participants and appease extremists.
Star Wars video games are for children. An overwhelming percentage of the 1.7 million games sold are being used by children who do not need to be exposed to this propaganda. Please stick to your policy to avoid such advocacy representations in your games.
Please tell us that it is not too late to stop this from impacting our children.
I look forward to sharing your response with family and friends.
Thank you."
Man they must be some boring families if their idea of fun is gathering around the dinner table and talking about all the companies they pestered through automatic emails. EA won't give in mostly because several thousand people is like a drop of water in the ocean that is 1.7 million people (lest when I googled it)
I don't think it's convenient timing at all, sometimes when it rains, it's pours.
Nonsense, it's simply that women are more likely to use condoms due to the greater likelihood of getting pregnant that they don't want that, is also a prevention from the spread of HIV. Gay men are still men, they chance it on HIV but education is highly effective in encouraging condom use amongst ALL.Myrmecodon said:The real inaccuracy is in assuming that a gay Cortez wouldn't jump your bones immediately. "Monogamy" is a concept foreign to most gays I've seen, and it's reflected in their HIV gamerscore:
Telling a male homosexual that he is healthy and 100% normal by enabling his gay space fantasies is like telling a schizophrenic the mailman really is out to kill him-might make him feel better, but you're just increasing the risk that someone's gonna die.
Men who have sex with men using condoms are equally protected from HIV as men + women who have sex using condoms. And of course lesbian relations are at extremely lower risk.
HIV is not the "gay plague", it affects all human sexual interaction and where bodily fluids are injected into another, barrier methods must be used until both are tested and they commit to monogamy.
THINK about this. Monogamy cannot be an alien to homosexuals otherwise why would they be campaigning so hard for the right to marry and why would the various religious organisations be so bitterly opposed to this?
"Telling a male homosexual that he is healthy and 100% normal "
Is accurate. When he has unprotected sex with a man he is at indistinguishable risk from HIV as if he had sex with a woman. It's a matter of risk patterns, the LIKELIHOOD of wearing a condom, not individuals. ALl they need to be told to do is to use a condom. The EXACT SAME MESSAGE that heterosexual coupling needs!
CONDOMS CONDOMS CONDOMS! Prophylactics! Sailor's Caps! French Letter, Johnnies, Jimmies, "protection", rubber, battle helmet, love glove, shlong sock, cock sock ... The Condomus Maximus.
Guys... gals... don't fall victim to the Evil Empire's ways (organized religion). Condoms are the cure. NOT victimising homosexuals. To say to homosexuals that they should just be celibate, that's ridiculous, that is abstinence only sex "education" and has woefully and disastrously ineffective results.
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/TeenSex.htm
This is a good read.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/05/ea-in-full-damage-control-mode-points-to-anti-gay-hate-mail/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/05/ea-in-full-damage-control-mode-points-to-anti-gay-hate-mail/