Stop making these threads famous and you’ll see how Tulin and the others fade. Keep them reaching 400 replies and… well…
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What wow has given me is a home were I can leave my troubles behind and just have fun.
As a person of a progressive lifestyle in the real world I am identifiable as having a different orientation. Sometimes I have been made to feel uncomfortable by our society. I am a person who dislikes confrontation. In my case I must struggle with peer pressure that makes me miserable to say the least.
In wow I can say that misery is gone, dispelled. I feel that I have come home to a realm I am not judged as a person and as a human. In wow there are many types of races and classes. I play many of them and feel a sense of freedom I could never find in the real world. I am grateful to wow for giving me a safe place.
As for Sci-fi and fantasy. Yes. I am an avid fan of both genres. Before wow. I would escape into the fantasy and sci-fi worlds literature provided for me and the other outcasts out there.
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Who’s alt are you trying to start something?
does this mean the wow balance is decently good now?
It certainly has a loud one.
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Yeah I feel like it’s a case of the vocal minority are “speaking for everyone”. Which overall paints w bad picture given they tend to have very skewed beliefs and viewpoints of themselves. Like a deleted post on here in which one claimed to be a self proclaimed leader of the LGBTQ+ community in WoW.
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As far as I can see there have been only a few post by members of the lgbtq community. Most of the other posts are just resentful people that dislike giving a chance to speak! These negative people remind me of a town hall meeting I attended some time back.
Most of the people there were trying to have free and open discussion but were being constantly interrupted by loud nasty people yelling and cursing. Trying to shut the speaker up.
I would say if people don’t like lgbtq threads. Then they shouldn’t read them. And if they do read them. Then just be respectful.
The weird part is that the op asked for people of the lgbtq community to say their opinions. No one asked for non-lgbtq peoples opinion. I understand that every one is entitled to participate in a thread. But people please if you post keep it civilized.
OP its unfortunate that trying to give the lgbtq community a voice in your topic devolves into this type of thing. lgbtq in a topic thread title seems to attract a lot of heat.
I sincerely hope that there are a few brave individuals out there that are willing to express their experiances in wow with the rest of our community.
I’m sure if I paraded around my sexuality I would come across people who would have a problem / attempt to troll over it, but I don’t talk about it in game. It just isn’t relevant. I’ve never had anyone who inadvertently figured it out say anything either. I feel welcome in the game the same as anyone else assuming I’m pulling my weight in the content I’m doing.
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So much this
So you just described Rick from Big mouth…
What other secrets do you hold
But seriously, as a gay man myself the topic rarely if ever comes up in game… And look I’m all for representation but it has to ADD something. Like if you look at Pelegos being non-binary, it was literally shoe horned into a conversation and added jack all… Never brought up again, never used for anything
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The alphabet squad isnt my problem. So long as they keep it to themselves and children are left alone then im good.
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That may be one or two enthusiastic posters of questionable maturity.
Personally, I think this is the problem.
We are here to play the game, not indulge your gender preferences.
Why can’t you just play the game?
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As part of the lgbt community I’ve never had a problem on WoW but I don’t express nothing about my sexual orientation unless it is explicitly asked.
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LGBT+ players are just normal players. No one will treat you differently unless you shove your orientation / identity down their throats.
If you want a social community to discuss such things, many guilds and communities exist in game that will meet that need. If you insist on being vocal about it with complete strangers though, you will get ridiculed. People don’t give two squats about who you are attracted to IRL, they just want to play the game. If you are annoying, then you are asking for the negative responses you will get.
tl;dr - if you don’t want hate, don’t give people a reason to hate. Keep private matters private and just have fun playing the game.
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Fuzzbutt has posted in other threads not related to LGBTQ+ threads LOL
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Re-read what I posted. It wasn’t at one specific person.
I’ve never experienced any form of discrimination in-game. There’s obviously some questionable comments I’ve seen on the forum, but a lot of it comes from threads that were obviously designed to fish for that kind of hostility.
I’ve seen LGBTQ+ friendly guilds back on Proudmoore when I used to play there, and even Frostmourne since I’ve moved here. I feel like the game has always operated on a “if you’ll want to build that kind of community, you can, and the people who aren’t interested just won’t be bothered.” And that’s perfectly fine.
That said, I’m not really interested to join such guilds because I don’t really see the point. To me, WoW is just a game and the main reason we’re here is to talk about the game. I don’t see what my sexuality had to do anything, but if people wanna talk about it, I’ll talk about it, if not I’ll just mind my own business.
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If more time was spent on the gender identity of Pelagos, it would have enraged so many transphobic cishets