What's with the gay threads lately?

[JayDeth]

I'm kinda shocked really. I fully expected the first post to be: "No homo."

 

[Mr. Gency]

We've been quite happy, lately.

 

[Dags90]

Hang on you dont like people who are hostile about gender roles being broken, but you also dont like when people dislike carbon copy pastiches?

I don't like it when people dislike 'carbon copy pastiches' simply because they break gender roles. Nor do I like people who resort to homophobic or misogynistic name calling because they can't verbalize their feelings appropriately.

I haven't seen half as many gay threads as completely irrelevant "what are you listening to" and "I thought (movie/band/book) was overrated" threads.

You forgot "Your avatar" threads, those are also a great way to badge farm.

 

[Thespian]

There aren't more homosexuality threads than gaming threads, first of all. There is a whole subforum with nothing but gaming threads.

Anywho, I think it's more Sexuality that keeps coming up than just homosexuality.

And the sciences of sexuality are very, very interesting.

Not much more to it, I shouldn't think.

 

[C95J]

There is a Gaming section to the forums, but there is also other sections, such as off-topic, where you can discuss other things as well.

 

[00slash00]

this isnt a strictly gaming site. bob talks about movies, comics, and cartoons. the LRR people have that new show where they talk about random current events. i see it as a website for gamers, and even the most hardcore gamer cares about more than just video games (well maybe not the most hardcore, but that person wouldnt be very interesting to talk to). if your noticing this lately in particular? the gay rights movement has been making a lot of progress *cough*newyork*cough*

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Its almost as if a major event with possitive rammifications for the gay community happened recently.....

I don't know about recently? did something get overturned in africa that i was unaware of (given i don't really care about africa, and they have massive discrimination against homosexuals down there)

Well there was the legalisation of gay marriage in New Yoik not too long ago, there was a massive thread devoted to that-but I don't think Africa has become such an enlightened utopia yet sadly.

 

[Woodsey]

because this community has a lot of overtly proud gays who feel the need to talk about it all the time.

*braces for flames*

Its the... STUPIDEST COMMENT OF THE WEEEEEEEEEK!

(I need my own fucking jingle.)

They're mostly made by non-gays.

OT: Well you've just added to it, so there you go. Also: off-topic discussion is for exactly what it says on the tin.

 

[Reaganomics]

Gaming websites would actually strike me as perfect, as gamers (without wishing to make a too sweeping generalisation) tend to be young and socially liberal, and therefore much more comfortable having discussions about these topics.

Not even bringing up the problems with generalizations, I'm going to have to disagree with the socially liberal part. At least, not on this forum. I've seen plenty of threads that were rife with homophobia and/or misogyny. And many posters seem to expect strict heteronormative gender roles, and are hostile when these roles are challenged.

We get a lot of the "I don't care about gays as long as they aren't faggy" kind of tolerance, which is a shame.

Hang on you dont like people who are hostile about gender roles being broken, but you also dont like when people dislike carbon copy pastiches?

I only bring this up because theres a large amount of one dimensional homosexuals, a persons lifestyle shouldn't be defined by what they choose to screw. And it appears to be more prevalant amongst homosexual men. (now there are meathead men, and barbie girls aswell, but they arent the majority which is what i take issue with).

Feel free to yell at me for generalizations. But i cannot stand people who follow the cultural norm so completely that you don't even need to ask them anything to know who they are.

I definitely agree with you bahumat42. I think that most people just don't want it thrown in their face whenever they talk to someone, whether they are straight, gay or whatever. That is likely where the "I don't care about gays as long as they aren't faggy" comes from. Though saying it like that seems to me to be an oversimplification of the general opinion of people.

OT There always seems to be a fairly constant amount of these threads. Most likely these threads are common because gay rights are slowly becoming accepted among English speaking countries and this is an English language forum therefore there is likely to be a fair amount of people from English speaking countries.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Why is it such a hot topic, that gets discussed more than actual gaming threads, on a GAMING site?

With a NON GAMING FORUM.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Its almost as if a major event with possitive rammifications for the gay community happened recently.....

I don't know about recently? did something get overturned in africa that i was unaware of (given i don't really care about africa, and they have massive discrimination against homosexuals down there)

Well there was the legalisation of gay marriage in New Yoik not too long ago, there was a massive thread devoted to that-but I don't think Africa has become such an enlightened utopia yet sadly.

yup theres a reason that didn't pop up on my care radar. I genuinely thought civil partnerships were good enough (being that marriage is a religous thing, so let the religous robed folk worry about all that nicknack). As long as the legal term carried the same weight was all that mattered in my eyes.

I'm not gay so I'm not really fussed though good for the ones who want to get married-what you get upto in your bedroom with your man/woman/sheep/blowup dolphin is none of mine nor the government's concern (within reason mind-if someone's acting with tremendous creative indencey in view of the public then by all means stomp on their face until they stop).

 

[Woodsey]

Its almost as if a major event with possitive rammifications for the gay community happened recently.....

I don't know about recently? did something get overturned in africa that i was unaware of (given i don't really care about africa, and they have massive discrimination against homosexuals down there)

Well there was the legalisation of gay marriage in New Yoik not too long ago, there was a massive thread devoted to that-but I don't think Africa has become such an enlightened utopia yet sadly.

yup theres a reason that didn't pop up on my care radar. I genuinely thought civil partnerships were good enough (being that marriage is a religous thing, so let the religous robed folk worry about all that nicknack). As long as the legal term carried the same weight was all that mattered in my eyes.

It isn't. This is thrown about all the time, but marriage is not a religious thing. Its a big part within a lot of religions, they do not "own" the concept.

I found several different sources for this a while back on a different thread, same topic. Its not true, or at least, they've existed independently for so long (we're talking thousands of years) that whether it did start within religion or not is totally irrelevant nowadays.

 

[PatSilverFox]

It is Pride month after all.

Oh really?!!
Yeah the op is just...
idk clueless about the forum topic (non-gaming related) and... maybe is a bit homophobic?
nvm i don't judge.

 

[Grey_Focks]

I certainly prefer them to the MLP threads. That, and who cares? If you don't like the looks of a thread, stay out of it. I assume it being pride month has something to do with it, and the recent decision in new york is another big reason.

 

[Dags90]

Its semantics, its effectively the same thing without religous overtones, to the extent that i would be willing to have one myself (maybe in a church, but a non religous ceremony performed by legal representatives rather than church ones) being that im somewhere between athiest and agnostic.

One of the best things about not being religous is that i don't have to deal with their nonsense. I'm not marrying under god, im swearing loyalty upon my human traits, im so romantic xD

But i suppose out of the many things that people argue about, love is probably one of the more worthwhile things.

It actually isn't just semantics. New Jersey has civil unions, and sometimes people are denied or delayed benefits of marriage on the basis that private companies go "We're not sure if this counts". There was one account involving health insurance and another involving a man in a car crash. The hospital ultimately called the man's sister up from Delaware (hundreds of miles) to handle medical decisions instead of his civil union partner. The UK doesn't run into this problem so much because the law is national.[footnote]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/nyregion/13civil.html[/footnote]