“If you’re ever curious about the unique burdens gay people continue to face, imagine”

When I saw this, I was 17 and in the theater with my Boyfriend*. (White cis gay male here.) We were so hungry to see LGBT people, and Smith was a phenomenon at the time post-Clerks.

Yeah- what kind of monsters would try to recruit minorities? Can you imagine- a diverse police force, developing social and professional bonds with marginalized people? Minorities IN THE ROOM when policies are discussed and developed?

As a gay man and progressive, I agree with rights and recognition as well as debate- which is why the tantrum* Trans Queer Pueblo threw shouldn’t be rewarded.

Is Mayor Bowser going to send out the Goombas and the Koopa Troopers?

We are talking about video games, a specific and comparatively new art form. Further, we are talking about a specific kind of video game- Creation of a Personal customizable avatar, varied along different identity axes including gender, who makes ethical choices and interacts with people in ways which change the story…

*This asterik is here to remind me that no one- including me- deserves a gold star for passively feeling the right thing.

Respectfully, Sir/Ma’am- I’m white. I don’t know what I don’t know- but my heart breaks* for these young women, and for the people who love them. I worried my momma enough as gay white man, but to add institutional racism, personal racism, and misogyny to that burden of fear that your baby may never come home to you?…

The homeless, unemployed woman who is estranged from everyone in her support network is “navigating the world well enough”?

Thank you, Bioware, for including* LGBT folks in the same way you include straight gamers.

There are legitimate ways to disagree with the writer’s premise here.

The corollary to the “Lemonade isn’t for white people” argument.

Is that because she’s young enough to get the references?

Dave sounds like I do when I talk about them canceling Herman’s Head.

Trotsky? Wasn’t. Even. Shot. (I checked- the closest he came to being “gunned down” was when his grandson caught a bullet in the foot.)

1. If you survive being shot for days afterward and die from the effects of other injuries, you haven’t been “gunned down.”

Replace “gunned down” with “smashed in the head with an ice ax” and we’re good.

I just read the whole memo.

Hello, consumer!

Adds “NO SLAVE AUCTIONS, ANYWHERE, FOR ANY REASON” to The List of Don’t Do That, White People*, between “Don’t touch people’s hair” and “Don’t speak with a fake Black-cent.”