Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression

Last year we discussed news that an Xbox Live gamer was banned for identifying herself as a lesbian on her profile. Microsoft said at the time that nothing sexual in nature could appear in Gamertags or profiles. Now, they seem to have reconsidered their stance, and they've updated their Code of Conduct accordingly. Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten wrote: "[The update] will allow our members to more freely express their race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation in Gamertags and profiles. Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self-identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs. However we have since heard feedback from our customers that while the spirit of this approach was genuine, it inadvertently excluded a part of our Xbox LIVE community. This update also comes hand-in-hand with increased stringency and enforcement to prevent the misuse of these terms."

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Re:Gay rights are civil rights.

[IgnoramusMaximus]

This "marriage is between a man and a woman" bit is exactly the same as "coloreds don't drink from the white fountain."

While the entire concept of "marriage" is just societal (religiously motivated) dogma, enshrining of which in law is frankly an unforgivable assault by religious wackos on the rest of us, I cannot exactly stand by your "equivalence" as there is this little problem of sexual reproduction involved that has no place in the fountain drinking you've referred to ...

I think all these "alternate" sexuality types are shooting themselves in the foot when they go on these crusades in the vain of "our two-man family is just like that man-woman one next door!" ... err .. except it isn't. No amount of wishful thinking can hide the fact that exclusively same-sex sexual interaction is simply a genetic deficiency doomed to reproductive failure, or in case of lesbians in the absence of technological insemination. Does this warrant persecution or social shunning? Hell no. But at the same time you cannot pretend that it is not likely to cause all sorts of strange reactions by the sex-controlling circuitry of the brains of those who have the "standard" wiring, ranging from discomfort to outright instinctive (genetically-dictated) hostility.

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