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(06-26-2015, 12:20 PM)Hammersmith Wrote:i can understand the need for a safe place to relax with other like minded people. I am not what most term normal, having grown up in the Bible Belt i have seen some REAL idiocy and it baffles the hell out of me. I cant judge one person by another's actions no matter their race/color/creed/orientation. Though if you dress in a manner that says your there to start shyte or your a danger to my family, expect a cautious reception lol.(06-26-2015, 12:05 PM)Thorgar Wrote:(06-26-2015, 10:46 AM)AquiziTC Wrote:odd newbie question, whats a static? I am assuming its not random background noise being picked up by your receiver static lol(06-26-2015, 06:59 AM)Nako Vesh Wrote: But being in an LGBT themed FC/LS doesn't magically prevent people from communicating outside these circles. There isn't some impenetrable wall. A lot of you here are vastly overstating the supposed harm caused by a focused social group. It's silly.
This, exactly this. I don't really understand how a LS is 'seclusion.' It's like.
OK EXAMPLE:
How many of you guys have a linkshell for your static? Ok, great. Do not have/talk to any other friends? Of course not!Â
"That's different it's practical not social!" I hear.
BULLSHIT!
Yes, there are some statics and raid groups that are entirely business. I do not feel, however, that it is the norm. Sure there is a goal there, but it's still a social circle EXCLUDED to some (read: people not in the static, generally).
That is not to say I am excluding anyone, the + I add to things involve things like allies and the like.
This is not an FC, of which you can only be in one of. There's actually already an FC for that as I know, NAWTY. And while not RP, they're a pretty cool group of people (they live in the same ward as my FC's house). Linkshells do not have the 'only one' restriction. If you already have 8? Then yeah sure I guess there's a conflict there, but I have four! WHAT?! FOUR SOCIAL GROUPS HOW DARE I!
I dunno, the 'you're secluding yourself' argument...
I'm sorry, it just sounds dumb.
Edit: cleaned up language. Post now with less swearing!
on topic-ish, i still don't get why people care about anyone's sexual orientation. If your not sexually attracted to someone your not going to have sex with them and they are not going to have sex with you, so why the hell is any other detail relevant?Â
if someone gets up in your face over their orientation/religion/politics, the mistake they made was getting in your face. that is just rude and deserves retaliation, the subject matter is moot at that point. However if their not in your face about it, why would you even care what people do in their private life?
sorry if i rambled been up looong time with no caffine lol
The mistake is viewing someone as an "Other" based on sexual preference, regardless of intent to bone said person. Â Bigotry and discrimination are not all in your face violence. Â A lot of it is small things like "LBGT only FC and linkshells are discriminatory!" or small verbal cues that let slurs into casual conversation among gamers, or having to worry at all about being 'out' around strangers for any reason, whatsever. Â Cultural and sociatal discrimination is a death by a thousand cuts, when it's not death by one big act of violence. Â It's the sort of thing people say "but lol I didn't mean it!" and you're expected to just nod along and say "ok" with. Â Excusable the first time. Â But after the next hundred, thousand times? It wears and scrapes away are your basic humanity.
It's why safe spaces and LGBT specific linkshells and FCs are important. Â They're a safe space run and moderated by people who understand and have experienced what someone who sits in the "normality" of heterosexual cis-gendered life will never understand completely, because it's not their life.