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Same-sex romances to be available on Star Wars: The Old Republic; Religious Right wanks
MaddowBlog on MSNBC: A long time ago, in a galaxy far far, a gay...

Apparently the whole Religious Right versus same sex-romance-in-Star Wars-video-games dogfight isn't over yet.

Quick rewind: Recently, BioWare, the makers of the massively popular MMO video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, decided that one of your role playing options should be a same sex romance. Diverse, the universe is, hm?

Newsarama via Yahoo! News has the report: Same Sex Romance Comes to a Galaxy Far, Far Away. Back to MaddowBlog:

Right on cue, the usual right-wing watchdogs got their midi-chlorians in a bunch and, just like here on Earth, they are trying to eliminate these rebel alliances.

The homophobia ruins the wank. Too bad, cluelessness on the order of Cowboy Bebop at His Computer would have made for great wank. The wankiest of all the complainers were the Florida Family Association, who made the image behind the cut.

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nagaina
2012-03-26 04:39 am UTC (link)

More along the lines of, "I am completely clueless about ESRB ratings and want to gin up hysterical outrage over the idea of chiiiiiiiiiiilllllldrrrrrennnnnnnnnnn coming in contact with someone not exactly like them!" Seriously, from the press release:

• Children and teens, who never thought anyway but heterosexual, are now given a choice to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in their game player.
• Children and teens, who choose non-social agenda characters, would be forced to deal with lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or transgender characters chosen by other players.

....To which I was forced to respond: honey, if you think you're going to keep your kids wrapped in a hermetically sealed bubble where they never encounter anyone with anything other than arrow-straight sexuality at any time, anywhere, much less in an MMO...Well. I've got some beach front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.

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	elektra3 2012-03-26 06:44 am UTC (link)
	More like they want everyone who's non-heteronormative to go back to doing the "decent" thing, i.e. pretending that they don't exist. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ekaterinv
2012-03-26 10:54 pm UTC (link)

I get so ticked off when I see people freak out about the children coming in contact with game stuff. Even when they're not massive homophobes -- like, if they go nuts about video game violence.

GAMES ARE NOT ONLY FOR CHILDREN. This game in particular was made for adults, so going all "waah what about the children" in relation to it is like going "waah what about the children" in relation to an R-rated movie.

Also, anyone who lets their child play an MMO is exposing them to: racism, misogyny, homophobia, fraud, bad language (both swearing and atrocious grammar), anti-everything bigotry, rape jokes, and people who think it's cool to insult anyone who doesn't play a game the way they think it *must* be played.

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	seiberwing 2012-04-05 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	So it's fine to pretend to be a magical evil space wizard but pretending to be a lesbian is just wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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