Originally Posted by Rexion
Earth, you are my hero.
Everything you have said in that was completely relateable (sp?) to my experience in Guild Wars. I was in an alliance. It was a few months of finally being out of the closet. I had to let the alliance know before something was said wrong. Well someone made a "filthy gays need to burn in hell" type of comment. I reacted by saying "well, I'm gay. and it seems we are really good friends in this alliance." Well that friendship immediatly ended and started a war through out alliance chat. People were siding with me, and people were siding with the other guy. The leader of our alliance said to both of us that we need to calm down and talk it out. The alliance leader said for the guy to deal with the fact that I was in the alliance and homosexual and that I needed to be calmer about someone saying stuff like that. I threated the alliance leader to leave for saying that. I used the metaphore "If someone called a black man that he needed to go back to the plantation, you'd expect the black man to react. So why is it different for someone that is gay?" The leader still didn't get where I was coming from. I turned alliance chat off from that day on. The alliance soon disbannded and the guild leader started a new on. I asked if I could join, but she said "you really need to keep the gay-thing on a low." I said, "I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I'm basically doing what African Americans did 30-40 years ago." I haven't talked to that guild since... -----another related topic----- I also get insulted by people because I'm only 15 years old. Yes, I'm 15. That doesn't mean I act like every other 15 year old in the world. For one, I am part of People to People - Student Ambassadors. We try to destroy the bad image of teens in America in the eyes of people of other countries. We are going to Europe this summer (France, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy) to see what life is like there, but we are also trying to follow the "destroy the bad image" at the same time. For two, I have better morales than some 15 year olds. Some just think "sex sex sex" or "chuck norris chuck norris chuck norris" or "that's what she said... said... said" or whatever. I am not really into that. I'm into getting good grades (I have all A's currently), having a good social life - but good reputation at the same time, and have a goal of getting into college after school. I don't care about being immature. I never said I haven't ever been immature, but I really don't care about being immature. I see trying to learn spanish more interesting that trying to make people laugh by constantly using curse words and waving my middle finger into the air. |
I'm 15, had the same experiences, and what you said about morals (you did say morales actually xP) is so QFT. I'm glad I've had less problems with it personally, but now that I'm more self-aware... eugh. Like today, I was in UW, and I kept thinking "if they find out about me, who'd /ragequit first"? I need to get out of this habit fast... I use GW as an escape from my RL problems sometimes, not as a gate-way to more.
After reading this thread I think I have actually (lol) created some problems for myself. My old friend, (who I do like a lot and we always say stupid things to annoy eacher :P) was complaining about Gate of Madness, and saying how "gay" it was. I said "don't use gay as an insult ¬¬". To this he loled, and asked me if I was gay. Yeah... well... long story short I don't talk to him. It's sad actually, he acts as though he did nothing wrong... *meh*.
I also came out to my bi friend at school, and it was great actually talking to someone else in a simmilar situation in RL... you know? This thread is more important than I ever realised :P.