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Gay Guild Recruitment Disallowed From WoW?
Fireball394 wrote with a link to an article on the site 'In Newsweekly'. The article, entitled "Blizzard of GLBT gaming policy questions", discusses the application of a harassment warning on a player who was recruiting for a GLBT guild. From the article: "In her follow-up letter to the company, Andrews explained that there was an obvious misunderstanding and that she was not insulting anyone, but merely recruiting for a 'GLBT friendly' guild. The response from Blizzard was, 'While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a GLBT friendly guild is very likely to result in harassment for players that may not have existed otherwise. If you will look at our policy, you will notice the suggested penalty for violating the Sexual Orientation Harassment Policy is to be temporarily suspended from the game. However, as there was clearly no malicious intent on your part, this penalty was reduced to a warning.' Blizzard's stance was clear that recruiting for a guild using 'GLBT' was inappropriate as, the company said, it may 'incite certain responses in other players that will allow for discussion that we feel has no place in our game.'"
This cannot possibly backfire in any conceivably way.
Way to go, clowns!
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
I wish they could come up with a better acronym. I always read it as "Gilbert", which probably isn't the intention.
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
Obviously "republican lovers" would be just another attempt at creating a GBLT friendly guild...
According to the letter of the statement, advertising a heterosexual orientation is also not appropriate, but clearly that's not what's meant.
And yeah, "high fantasy setting" and "sexual orientation" are completely inimical. I've never heard of any porn featuring "hot girl-on-girl action" in a "high fantasy setting". I suppose the rules are different when they involve real lesbians engaged in something like real fantasy life than fake lesbians in fantasy real life. Makes sense. After all, you gotta be straight to play the role of a gay cowboy.
In any case, while I understand the point of trying to change attitudes in a homophobic chatroom-with-spells like WoW, a gay clan could do more good in one of those PvP environments. Imagine the fun when the conservative parents find their nine-year-old bitching that he got totally pwn3d by a bunch of homos who ganked him, then repeatedly ass-raped him as he tried to spawn.
Wait a minute, how would anyone be able to tell the difference between that situation and what's happening now?
I'm confused.
Everyone who plays WoW is gay.
No, WoW just reveals latent gender-identity issues in our youth. Why else would almost all of America's male teenagers want to play a female night-elf?
And yeah, "high fantasy setting" and "sexual orientation" are completely inimical. I've never heard of any porn featuring "hot girl-on-girl action" in a "high fantasy setting".
:)
Stay away from Xena fan-fiction then
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Gravy, bacon, lettuce, tomato?
Eww...
"This is considered plagiarism."
The government funds the school systems. They can discriminate however they like, they own it. Don't like it? Don't go to school/get hired by them. Simple.
(cough, sarcasm, cough, in case some bonehead thinks I'm serious and flames me)
"Quoting yourself is stupid." -Me
Why can't Blizzard give them their own server?
A very neat, meticulously-decorated, smartly-color-coordinated, sensitive and compassionate server?
"...I think that if I meet you, and find out for no aparent reason that you are bisexual within 5 minutes of meeting you, then maybe you need to consider that you are going a bit far with this openness and ... making people feel like you are pushing acceptance of your lifestyle on them."
Jane Doe runs into the boardroom. "Sorry I'm late, everyone. My boyfriend got run over by a bus and I had to rush him to the hospital."
Everyone gasps. "Oh no! Is he all right?"
John Doe runs into the boardroom. "Sorry I'm late, everyone. My boyfriend got run over by a bus and I had to rush him to the hospital."
Everyone shuffles uncomfortably in their seats, and TheCarp says: "Please stop pushing your lifestyle upon us."
I'm fairly certain that Blizzard has not written sex into the actual game, so therefore it doesn't officially exist ... you can't have sex at all.
So it's just like real life, then.