Freakiq wrote...
Hetero player here, I'm happy to see you've formed a close-knitted community of like-minded people.
Though I must question the logic of identifying yourself by your sexual preferences in such an immature medium as video games.
As long as it irritates the homophobes and doesn't attract any cyber-bullying I'm glad for you. :happy:
Video games is an awfully broad label to assume it's all immature. Seldom you'd think Mass Effect of all games would draw a preferable crowd compared to others (*cough*COD*cough*)
As for people criticising this thread...I kinda get the point. The main argument seems to be the sexuality identification in an otherwise fine matchmaking thread from their point of view. But we've got the female one which has no complaints, and asking for gays or otehrwise tolerant straight people specifically makes sense. You need to specify slightly otherwise the cachement is perhaps too broad, and certainly from
our point of view it's nice to specifically be able to know and talk to like minded individuals considering our background. Particularly when homophobic slurs or similar are what peeves you, then surely the logical specification for gamers is sexuality orientated?
There are many other labels people may wish to use to try to specify fellow players, such as age, gender or ethnicity, none of which I doubt would draw the negativity this thread has done, even though they could be accused of the same thing just as legitimately as this thread has been.
For some reason saying you're gay of all things seems to be unfairly accused of deliberately drawing attention. Why exactly are we not allowed to let others know? Why is that being an attention ****? It's an important part of the identity and perhaps estabilishes that you are not the standard straight caucasian male which is what everyone will assume you are unles you specify otherwise.
I see girls on here complaining that they daren't use their mics because then everyone knows they're a girl and they often get slandered. No one accuses that of being attention ****ish, they're just trying to involve themselves with everyone else. So there's that thread discussing female players. This is similar, but for sexual orientation. But apparently it's attention whoring. But it's the same thing. Sure, you could go online and talk and no one would know maybe, but then unless you say something there is a good chance they will use offensive slurs, and then if you ask them not to that's just outing yourself anyway. If not that, then some gay people will be betrayed by their voices. Sounds odd, but quite often effeminate male voices are a give away. I know enough other gay people to know that there is some reasonable correlation there, and for these people at least their problem is pretty much the same as the girls who get no slander for it.
Maybe this thread is slightly attention ****ish, but that's surely intentional to draw the target audience, not exactly different from any other thread. And the title tells you exactly what to expect. It's not hard to just not click it if you're not interested. How attention ****ish can adding a 5 word title thread be, no matter what those words are? once you click it, any attention whoring is gone and your involvement henceforth is solely your problem, not the fact this thread exists or anything.
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And it actually HAS sparked some derogatory, homophobic comments with some random players… although all of the people I play with that I’ve met on *this* thread LOVE my color choices 
