As a black guy, this has N-word vibes. Regardless of its transcendance, it still isn’t cool. Some gay people may not be offended by the use of “gay” the same way there are some black people that are not offended by the use of the n-word. In a lot of cases it isn’t said to be racial, but I still don’t find it…

Even if there is a fair argument to be made for that word not meaning homosexual = bad any more, as an insult that word is definitely still rooted in that meaning.

Still homophobia.

I’m gunna have to call bullshit. As someone else pointed out, the word has an agreed upon meaning, to describe members of the homosexual community, and the intent to co-opt or alter its usage is meaningless to someone hearing the word

Find new friends.

Yeah, as a closeted gay kid in high school, I can say that hearing kids call things “gay” as a synonym for lame or stupid did nothing for my self-esteem. I still don’t like hearing it now, but most folks seem to get the memo. I do hear fa**ot from other gay men for a while now (only the men I’ve noticed) and I know…

Intent is irrelevant. By using a term used to describe a group of marginalized people (of which I am a member) of anything that they dislike or think is bad is inherently homophobic. There’s no way getting around that.

I’m an old guy who grew up when open homophobia was not just the norm, it was literally considered a moral imperative. To be called “gay” or “fag” were among the worst insults.

Her obvious concern for nothing but her own self interest make this whole Central Park incident seem line one in a long line of bullshit she’s done to black people. And, yeah, probably other people in general.

This woman is an attention whore. All she needed to do following the charges being dropped and having been put on blast once was to shut the fuck up, make a REAL apology and fade into the background.

That’s fine for “Sleazy Creep 2: Return of Sleazy Creep”, then I know what I’m buying. When I want to play a female character in an mmorpg though and I get the classic “the smaller the plate armor, the higher the armor class” stereotype, that’s not ok. How many gamer bros would play a game where female characters are…

The complaint: Women’s armors are clearly designed to make the character look like a wet dream while the male ones are made to look like a power fantasy. We want female armors that are as much a power fantasy as the mens!

Until these fucking piece of shit men are fucked by what is happening, they are still going to do it until they get publically reamed.

God damn liberals brainwashing us into *checks notes* not driving 3000 pound chucks of metal at 60+ miles per hour while under the influence of alcohol!

Next they’ll brainwash us into thinking something really crazy, like washing your hands to avoid spreading disease or that these chunks of rat fur I keep finding in my…

How drunk was he when he wrote that? If Philip B. Linker is still alive, I promise you he’s on Twitter complaining about “vaccine shedding.” As much as this is an artifact of the ‘80s, the logic feels incredibly contemporary.

Oh, yikes, man. Bad take.

Guys...I don’t want to cause a panic here, but I’m *starting* to think gaming has a male toxicity problem...

I’m not sure who will be giving these guys funding, since all it takes is one online storm — “did you SEE who they hired?” — for that investment to suddenly look a lot less secure and offer much worse ROI.

This is not an industry with a shortage of people who haven’t been accused of this stuff. Those other people will…

Religion is seriously a poison on humanity.