A Call for Expandable Codpieces In MMORPGs 67
Staci Krause writes "The Core for Entertainment and Gaming has an editorial on the growing trend in MMORPGs to to make every area of a woman's anatomy customizable. The female writer of the editorial doesn't mind this at all, but would like to see the same applied to a man's anatomy as well, suggesting: 'Is it so wrong of me to want to see a well endowed man online to run around and battle hideous monsters with?'"
Re:Random Musings (Score:3, Interesting)
As another poster said, you might be surprised. I know a TF player that's gay, though I didn't know that he was gay for ages.
FWIW, a typical TF match conversation not infrequently involves something like "Sniping me from there is so fucking cheap. It was gay as hell." or someone spamming the message systemw. Besides being a semi-hostile environment, there's just not much *point* in most games in someone coming out. I mean, what the heck would you expect -- "gg" "gg" "gg" "Hey, everyone, I'm gay!" ?
I've also run into a few people that have mentioned that they're gay on IRC, an environment where people actually talk to each other. MUDs are probably the closest environment to this, but depending upon the MUD, people are frequently busy role-playing a character, and aren't particularly interested in mixing that character up with their real life self.
I have several homosexual friends--they're stylish, smart people who're usually to be found at the latest bar opening or party or whatever
This, of course, brings up the other possibility -- that people who are very socially active are more likely to come out than a (stereotypically) shy geek type. If someone's drunk and at one of those parties you mention, they might be more willing to say something than someone who spends more time around machines and may have already been harassed in school for being smart/unathletic/overweight/etc.
Incidently, I read an interesting article in the local paper back home (though I believe it was from the AP) about a gay guy who said "Why does everyone expect gay guys to be cultured, socially knowledgeable people? I'm a messy bachelor, just another Joe Sixpack."
And yes, to a man they're significantly less boorish about ogling members of your preferred sex than most of my straight acquaintances
It's a not unreasonable guess that it's because they've gone through enough sexuality-related emotional stress that they know what it's like, and aren't going to push it on someone else.