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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 307279" data-attributes="member: 5171">Attention Straight Guys:  It's really important of us all to be conscientious of our Gaymer brethren.  They've worked really hard to come up with a speech to defend themselves and protect themselves against the discrimination they think you're going to hit them with.  So please, when your fellow gamer abashedly pauses and then ends a sentence with "...and my boyfriend" or some other "Ha, I'm gay," line, please say, "Oh my God, you're GAY?  If the Lord Jesus hadn't already condemned me to hell for playing Dungeons and Dragons, I would SOOOOO ask him to smite you."-TackyPS: No gay people in my group.  I notice that our group has some anti-gay humor in it, yes, usually involving elves or bards, but at the same time, we've also given the party druid the nickname "Leafblower" for his presumed floral-persuasion, dissed the cleric (who slept with a glamoured cockroach monster while charmed), and made NUMEROUS veiled comments about the half-elf with the halfling girlfriend (Because you know what they say about guys who date halflings, snicker snicker).  So if we made fun of every D&D-land sexual possibility except being gay, that would be discrimination, saying that they're too sensitive and weak to handle the dissing every other character is getting.  In real life, I have gay friends, bi friends, and lesbian friends, with whom I am comfortable making jokes, just like they joke about me and my darned heterosexuality.  So I think that there's a line to be drawn SOMEWHERE between the razzing that every group gets in a good-natured gaming session, and real homophobic commentary.  I don't know where that line is, and it'd be a whole lot less worrisome if there WERE a gay guy in our group who was making the same jokes and telling us when we'd officially ticked him off.  But there ain't.And this is a much longer footnote than I had intended...</blockquote>

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