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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balsamic Dragon" data-source="post: 5355045" data-attributes="member: 2433">Today is Spirit Day.  For those who don't know what this means, you can go here and check it out:  <a href="http://www.glaad.org/spiritday" target="_blank">GLAAD - Wear Purple on Oct. 20 for Spirit Day #SpiritDay</a>Briefly, Spirit Day is a day where we reach out to support LGBT kids who are being bullied in schools and, in some tragic examples, driven to suicide.  We say: we hear you, we understand you, we support you.So to any of those kids who are gamers and clicked on a link from the front page of EN World today, expecting to find a webcomic about Giant Space Hamsters, and instead found this:  <a href="http://www.d20monkey.com/" target="_blank">d20monkey -</a>, a webcomic that uses prejudice and hate for humorous effect, I'd just like to say that I, like you, felt it like a kick to the stomach.  This post is for you.  From a person who mostly lurks here on EN World.  But felt that today was a good day to speak out.For those of you who think: it's just a webcomic, it was a funny joke, why do people have to complain about these kind of things, it wasn't meant to hurt anyone, I'd like to say:  Consider yourself lucky that you can read stuff like that and not be hurt by it.  Not all of us are.</blockquote>