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Do any gay guys play WoW?
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blackmarquetbaby
This is about the most retarded question I have ever seen posted here at wowhead. You have got to be kidding .
If you are looking to find a date try Match.com or Eharmony or something.
Redicoulas. I thought this was a forum for world of warcraft.
You think it's a forum for WoW, yet you obviously don't play it. Because if you did, you would realise that this is a legitimate question.
P.S. You might want to visit
this site
.
Yes I do play the game. And tell me how this is a legitimate question ? Do you think if I am playing a character in the game it will matter if someone is gay ? This I am sure was started by a child. But to think it has gotten this far is nonsense. When did this game become about someones personal preference? So what are you going to get out of it if Gay people do play ? Is it going to stop you from playing ? This thread has no purpose and should be removed. This question belongs here just as much as same sex marriage issues. oh wait this site is about world of warcraft!
you know, it is perfectly possible for you to just NOT join in on the conversation if it bothers you that much. Believe it or not, there are people who identify as GLBT, and they do play the game, and they do like to play in a place where they don't have to be assaulted by other players, and know that they have a community of people who support them in the case that they DO get harassed. This is also a social game, being as it is SOCIAL platform, part of the thing that comes in to it is understanding that your guildmates are married/engaged/dating or that they have other responsibilities. Their approach to life can have an effect on their approach to the game.
Anyways, you can just do us all a favor, buck up, and leave, move on to another thread where you don't feel the need to flame/invalidate other's interests.
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Yep. Gay guys and girls totally play WoW. If they're smart they don't advertise. The ones that are really blatant about it are just asking for trouble, unfortunately. =\
well im a girl who plays and my best friend who plays is gay, and yes unfortionitly it really can be asking for troubel to advertise
Well part of the problem with blaming the harassed for their own ridicule is that what some consider "flaunting" others is just part of their life. If guildies frequently say "gotta go, wife or girl friend aggro" before they leave.. and a gay guy says " gotta go, hubby or boy friend aggro"
The gay guy is acting no more differently than any other person in the guild. To people who don't like gays the exact same actions they do themselves can be considered "flaunting" .. because they don't realize how much their own actions disclose their sexuality.
In both cases the player leaving is saying their significant other is demanding they do something IRL. The gay guy isn't saying.. Hey I'm a homosexual who is gay and love men and have to log out now. He is simply saying his real life is calling him away from the game. Yet he could be accused of "flaunting" simply because others don't like him.
that is more accurate than my earlier flaming, with lots of caps.... but point stands, a person simply living there life is OK. hate, on the other hand, and acting on it is NOT ok.
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Yep. Gay guys and girls totally play WoW. If they're smart they don't advertise. The ones that are really blatant about it are just asking for trouble, unfortunately. =\
well im a girl who plays and my best friend who plays is gay, and yes unfortionitly it really can be asking for troubel to advertise
Well part of the problem with blaming the harassed for their own ridicule is that what some consider "flaunting" others is just part of their life. If guildies frequently say "gotta go, wife or girl friend aggro" before they leave.. and a gay guy says " gotta go, hubby or boy friend aggro"
The gay guy is acting no more differently than any other person in the guild. To people who don't like gays the exact same actions they do themselves can be considered "flaunting" .. because they don't realize how much their own actions disclose their sexuality.
In both cases the player leaving is saying their significant other is demanding they do something IRL. The gay guy isn't saying.. Hey I'm a homosexual who is gay and love men and have to log out now. He is simply saying his real life is calling him away from the game. Yet he could be accused of "flaunting" simply because others don't like him.
Thats where the big problem is. Gay being normal is such a hard concept to accept anything that even remotely says your gay is taken as a red flag. Since people have many different opinions its taken many different ways, but the basis is still there: Its not a common occurrence, and thus is treated as such. You notice that people who are around gay people and know them tend to have no problem with them as opposed to others who never have or have very little interaction.
Point being, since people dont perceive these actions as the gay equivalent of normal every day lives.. or even just normal actions done by a gay individual, its OMG... Just the way the mind works i guess.
Gay is normal.
Do you think being over the age of 65 normal?
Do you have grandparents?
Only 7% of the world population is over the age of 65.
10 percent of the world is gay.
A person has a grater chance to be gay than to be the over age of 65.
So, how is being gay not normal again?
Most of what you are saying is right but, being gay - totally normal.
Edit : not normal
No, no wait, just more normal. (Just got so use to saying it. Normal, opps there it is again!)
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Patty
Gay is normal.
Do you think being over the age of 65 normal?
Do you have grandparents?
Only 7% of the world population is over the age of 65.
10 percent of the world is gay.
A person has a grater chance to be gay than to be the age of 65.
how is being gay not normal?
Most of what you are saying is right but, being gay - totally normal.
Haha I am totally using that against people I know who are homophobic, being around gay people is no more different than being around straight people, or old people as you pointed out.
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adashiel
Ease up on the quote pyramids, folks.
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Infleto
Sorry, adashiel.
There is a lot of different discussions going on. With out the quotes thing get a little lost. Yet, we have taken it over board.
Plez! don’t lock the thread. There is just too much stuff to retype on another. lol
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Infleto
I am "wrong"?
I am sorry for not falling in to your belief of right and wrong.
I have found boys attractive for as long as I can remember.
I can see why a man being attractive to a man is “wrong” for you as you are heterosexual. I do not see what heterosexual men see in women that they find so attractive. It is just out side of my comprehension. It is very wrong for me to be attracted to women.
Can you explain or elaborate your thoughts on why you think being gay is wrong?
Note : DO NOT let this turn in flame session.
Everyone who see gays as a social norm, do not burn this person. As he is doing the same as we are, expressing our thoughts.
Also Maine has taken up introduced legislation to provide marriage equality to all of there citizens and not just the heterosexual portion.
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Eudemonia
I am "wrong"?
I am sorry for not falling in to your belief of right and wrong.
I have found boys attractive for as long as I can remember.
(snip)
Can you explain or elaborate your thoughts on why you think being gay is wrong?
Note : DO NOT let this turn in flame session.
Everyone who see gays as a social norm, do not burn this person. As he is doing the same as we are, expressing our thoughts.
Also Main has taken up introduced legislation to provide marriage equality to all of there citizens and not just the heterosexual portion.
First, "Maine".
Second, for someone appearance interested in keeping this thread on topic, you seem to show a remarkably poor grasp of how not to inflame the conversation.
Third, as to the original OP, the law of large numbers virtually guarantees a sizable number of essentially any population plays WoW.
Finally, the above should be reason enough for anything personal to be strictly controlled in the anonymous environment of WoW. Just as the large player base of WoW virtually guarantees there are gays that play, it also virtually guarantees there are also some number of serial killers and pederasts, or owners of antique cars or vintage comic books.
You know what, we don't have to worry about car nuts knowing much about our personal lives (as a general rule), and for the most part, the people you meet online are probably fine. Just like the vast majority of Craigslist transactions go well...
Bottom like is there are lots of good people out there, including plenty of good people that don't agree with a lot of things that you may consider perfectly reasonable. There are also more bad people out there then we like to think about. Moreover, there are a lot of people playing that play because it's an escape from reality, don't imagine that your sharing details of your life is any less unwelcome then someone else complaining about their job or their dog or their health maladies.
Outside of WoW, on guild bulletin boards and forums, that's so variable who can say? Just remember though, what you put on the internet, that's forever.
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Eudemonia,
I want to encourage him/her to say more than "gay is wrong". I have a difference in option. Thus conflict.
From conflict you will get one of the following: compromise, domination/submission, understanding with out resolve or, more conflict. There are 2 of those that I am seeking.
As for the anti-flaming, I am just not wanting the thread locked. If Wowtrolls gets defense than conflict becomes more of conflict and not a conversation.
As for staying "on topic", When I repled to him, I was taking thing more off topic something this thread has and will passed that thresh hold of. lol
Thanks for the spell check /fixed
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Eudemonia
Eudemonia,
I want to encourage him/her to say more than "gay is wrong". I have a difference in
option
. Thus conflict.
From conflict you will get one of the following: compromise, domination/submission, understanding with out resolve or, more conflict. There are 2 of those that I am seeking.
I assume you mean "opinion" there, but you may mean option as in option of choosing sexual orientation; either way, I must seriously question your notion that discussion as to the nature of sexual orientation have a place on the WoWhead forums (well, a place outside of the Randomness forum).
As for the anti-flaming, I am just not wanting the thread locked. If Wowtrolls gets defense than conflict becomes more of conflict and not a conversation.
As for staying "on topic", When I repled to him, I was taking thing more off topic something this thread has and will passed that thresh hold of. lol
Thanks for the spell check /fixed
Out of curiosity, are you a native English speaker? Your syntax above (especially "I am just not wanting the thread locked") remind me of something I can't quite put my finger on... The italicized portion, I'm afraid, quite escapes me.
Listen, as I pointed out, there are plenty of good people that play WoW, but as a function of sheer number if nothing else, there are also some bad people. Some of them probably very, very bad.
There is, however, another point, that Reinhart (above) brings up, in a roundabout way;
lol, all this crap i see about "theres no need to inform the public of your sexuality" and "keeping your preferance to yourself " only means your scared of being called out. ive got nothing against anyone of any race / creed / gender / Orientation but dont tell me that you prefer not to bring it up out of interest privacy, you just dont want to get spammed by a million 12 year olds with nothing better to do.
Why exactly he thinks is a moral failing if "you just dont want to get spammed by a million 12 year olds with nothing better to do" I'm not sure, but it does make a point: WoW is a game played by a whole lot of Kids.
There are a lot of immature people on the forums, in trade and what-have-you: for some of them, the excuse is that they are
actually kids
. They're expected to be immature. It's why the language filter is on by default, among other things.
While it's entirely appropriate to expect mature adults and young adults to be able to process matters of sex and sexuality, it's clearly unreasonable to expect middle-schoolers to exhibit the same level of maturity. Moreover, Blizzard has a tangible, financial interest in keeping WoW proper a relatively sanitized environment.
Guild websites are clearly an exception, but in WoW proper, you have to realize it's the public equivalent to a public park, but a park with a really big, shiny playground in the middle of it.
To get back to the original issue though, I think we can fairly assume that, for any question "Does X play WoW?" Where X is a living population group, the answer is "Yes". If that's interesting to people, there you go.
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