Being Gendered Correctly

[infinitezero]

Then let me ask you.

Are you compassionate towards people in third world lands?
Do you fly to where they live to go help the humanitary organizations?
Do you send thousands of dollars to families in need every year?

Do you?

People bitching about a virtual game do not deserve any compassion imho.
It's totally a 1st world problem.

Every problem out there can be compared to a worse one. By that logic, you could say that starving children don't have it that bad because at least they don't have radiation sickness from the Hiroshima bombing. A problem is a problem, no matter how many problems out there that are worse by popular opinion. Please don't make a habit of discrediting peoples problems when you don't know how it feels to them.

Anyways, on topic: I have been guilty of this at times, and learned not to make that sort of assumption anymore. I was worried at one point that I genuinely offended a FC member and felt bad about it... but I apologized immediately and was forgiven. I guess the point of this post is that I hope you can see things from the other end and not be so offended, even if it is tiring. If you make the correction respectfully, you will almost certainly get a respectful apology. If you don't, that person was never worth your time to begin with and should be disregarded.

Best of luck to you in regards to people not making this assumption in the future.


EDIT: To everone saying it's just a game, blah, blah, blah... Have you never experienced feelings when watching a movie, reading a book or playing a game? I know I was sad when Aeris died, when Mufasa died, the end of The Notebook etc. Saying something isn't real life doesn't mean you can't feel emotions about it. Hell, that's half the reason a lot of people play role playing games in the first place. This argument only becomes even less valid when we're talking about a game populated by real people with real lives and emotions. Open your minds a little bit.