To be clear when I say it’s laziness, it isn’t that Q is hard to hit or say or something. It’s that I’ve said LGBT for a long time, and don’t really care to condition myself otherwise because I know I’m not doing it out of malice.
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It’s what tipped me off about the OP. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen someone refer to themselves as a “homosexual man”, even the handful of elder gays I’ve met still refer to themselves as “gay men” or just “gay”.
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Are socks being worn? This is a very important and critical question.
Omg I recognize your name. You told me you had a masters degree, but you never told me the field of study. Can you tell me now?
You’re right. I don’t take it seriously at all. Is that a crime?
I give you credit for having the courage, especially as a gay man, to come out and say what you did here. I say it all the time that representation is good but tokenism is bad. And when you have the situation we have now going on with things being hammered so hard, it comes off like tokenism.
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Ah, why am I not surprised that you’re a full on disappointment.
Text is always different from spoken word. I hope people don’t think I’m this articulate when pressured to say things aloud.
yes of course : )
I’ll do it sarcastically when I want to make the situation uncomfortable because it’s such a clinical word. But yeah that was funny to me.
There was that other thread that was like “I’m gay, but no one knows it”, which made me laugh. Idk that comment made me think of that thread.
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Trolling? Yes.
I’m still not sure what to make of that thread. Hard to discern satire from genuine strangeness, sometimes.
So it’s trolling for having a different opinion. Got it!
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Ah, yes. Your different opinion and “constructive criticism” tell me more.
To be fair, Trolls are a part of the game and a playable race.
As a member of the Horde, you should know this.
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You wouldn’t want an echo chamber would you? Sounds boring. Imagine everyone saying constantly “I agree, I agree, I agree”
Twice over, no less!
We’ve been over this.
An opinion pertains to things like pineapple on pizza, or sour cream on steak.
Not the existence of actual people who just wanna live.
I get that empathy is REALLY hard for you people, but if you try sometime…
you might not be a terrible person after all!
There is no reliably empirical data on the number – whether raw numbers or percentages of the entire population – of same-sex relationships. Not within specific countries, not world-wide. The data collection methods are unreliable, the reasons for mis- or under-reporting are many, and in the end the estimates are just estimates.
So I question fundamentally why same-sex representation in a fantasy video game does, doesn’t, or even needs to match whatever you think the incidence of same-sex relationships are in real life.
Additionally, you don’t address the fact that up until very recently, there wasn’t any representation of same-sex relationships at all in WoW. So does parity mean no representation followed by proportional representation, which can’t even be accurately measured? Or does parity mean no representation followed by proportional over-representation, until average representation over the lifetime of the game evens out?
And why do you only think relationships are bluntly thrown at us when they’re same-sex relationships? Why haven’t you decried any of the male/female pairings that have been pretty bluntly thrown at us thus far?
I think there might be unexamined bias under all of your intellectualizing.
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