Charlie Brooker - Some people are gay in space. Get over it [Guardian]

[cbrichar]

Charlie Brooker's latest column in the Guardian makes for spectacular reading.

Some people are gay in space. Get over it
Video game players can now identify their characters as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Which is wonderful, unless you're a sad homophobe.

Full Article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/charlie-brooker-gay-video-game [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/charlie-brooker-gay-video-game]

 

[Rawne1980]

Obviously you can't fight the big gay penis in your head.

Best line ever.

 

[Vault101]

I never saw the problem

it was entrily optional, ok so a charachter might make a pass at you but if you seriously cannot handle a virtual charachter making a pass at another virtual charachter......seriously

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hehe...pay that.

I'd hate to be the person writing that, though.

"You can play as a gay character, which annoys bigots." fuck, need to pad that out to a whole page somehow...um...say "penis" alot?

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

....no it annoys people who felt that it was shoehorned in.

 

[Nieroshai]

I agree that people should stop being so prudish about LGBT, but his commentary on Star Wars made me repeatedly headdesk. Star Wars was conspicuously devoid of sex at large, kissing being the absolute farthest the series ever showed. As an Expanded Universe nut, I also know for a fact how straight Luke is... Mara Jade is equal parts awesome and blatant fanservice.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I agree that people should stop being so prudish about LGBT, but his commentary on Star Wars made me repeatedly headdesk. Star Wars was conspicuously devoid of sex at large, kissing being the absolute farthest the series ever showed. As an Expanded Universe nut, I also know for a fact how straight Luke is... Mara Jade is equal parts awesome and blatant fanservice.

Are you being serious? Because I promise you, Brooker wasn't. 'Tis called satire, good sir.

OT: Damn good article, Brooker at his usual sarcastic self. He had a little bit of a rant about this on the last episode of 10 O'Clock Live, but I'm too lazy to scrat about on youtube finding it.

 

[Kiardras]

I can't see the problem... its not like you're being forced into a LGBT or even straight relationship against your will. You, the player, decides just about everything, so why not have the options there?

 

[JediMB]

A nice piece, as long as it stayed on topic.

When the writer claimed ME3 has "a variety of different endings", however... it's only accurate in the sense that there's a very limited variety of slightly different endings.

 

[DevilWithaHalo]

I came into this thread expecting someone claiming that traveling to space could make you gay. I have to say I'm a little disappointed.

Still, being the murdering psychopath you can be in that game, it's the gay thing that offends people.

 

[OneCatch]

Hehe...pay that.

I'd hate to be the person writing that, though.

"You can play as a gay character, which annoys bigots." fuck, need to pad that out to a whole page somehow...um...say "penis" alot?

He uses superbly written filler a fair bit. Have a look at this article about David Cameron:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/16/charlie-brooker-cameron-a-lizard

Made me laugh *a lot*

 

[3quency]

Which is wonderful, unless you're a sad homophobe

One day im going to open a news site with headlines like: "Breaking news: Humans breath." and make millions.

Humans breathe
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

I don't see why people are taking this to heart.

Charlie Brooker is quite obviously taking the absolute piss at something ridiculous to start with. It's what he more or less does. In case you forgotten, here's him diving Kony 2012.


If you take Charlie Brooker too seriously you're quite obviously doing it wrong.