new reason to kick people from static raids

[DamianFatale]

As a homosexual person, I get bullied in online games. Do I announce my sexuality? No. People hear my voice, and they get clues based on my information. There's no denying or hiding it. It's part of who I am. I honestly have no sympathy for straight males who claim to be bullied for their sexuality. It just doesn't happen. I seriously doubt anyone would actually kick you for that. It has to be something else, or not even real.

[DamianFatale]

This. No normal person picks up a megaphone and announces their sexual orientation to people they barely know without having been solicited that information in the first place (and even then, what normal person would even answer such a request seriously?), especially to a freaking raid group. And if someone does, chances are they have actual problems that have nothing to do with their orientation and more to do with having a highly questionable personality in general.

Uh no. This is a harmful notion to homosexuals. Do you just announce that you're straight? We know. Do we announce that we're gay? No. You know. People making it clear about who they are is NOT the issue. It never is. In my opinion this kind of thinking is victim blaming, and hurtful.

[Serilda]

Higashikata already won the thread from a sympathy angle so I'm going to join the majority in saying there has to be more to the story than what has been revealed.

OP, could you have accidentally been acting in a rude way and then they lashed out with that as the reason? I had a FC member who would indulge in standard gamer banter, with homophobic comments and sexist remarks, and I kicked him from the FC with no warning because what was normal to him was unacceptable to everyone else. My group, my rules - a static isn't a workplace and they have no contract to keep playing with someone whose presence upsets them. If it really was a case of them baiting you to reveal your gender/orientation/race then kicking you, shame on them, but it seems so unlikely that there has to be more to the story than that.

[sVankerRabbi]

This whole thread is great. Western people must have great lives indeed if this is what they have time to argue about!

[Dortharl]

It would be nice to hear what the other members of his former static have to say, I'm sure their story wouldn't be the same.

[KikodeYusaku]

this has got to be the most boring attempt at trolling i've seen on these forums in a long time

[Dualgunner]

*Sargon intensifies*

Also my White Male To Jew extension really confused me at first and was like "wait you were kicked for being Jewish?" All cleared up now though.

[SaitoHikari]

Uh no. This is a harmful notion to homosexuals. Do you just announce that you're straight? We know. Do we announce that we're gay? No. You know. People making it clear about who they are is NOT the issue. It never is. In my opinion this kind of thinking is victim blaming, and hurtful.

I actually agree, but this thread is highly questionable and it's fairly obvious that what actually happened here has had much of the context stripped away, and THAT is what I was responding to.

My bet is that this whole thing came about as a tangent during a political 'debate' between static members (and I use the term as such because you won't find an actual meaningful debate about politics within a video game community). In which case, OP should probably count his blessings that he no longer has to associate with such a group in the first place, if they're willing to kick members for such things. Unless he was an ass and the real reason he was kicked wasn't specifically because of 'straight white male' but actually 'discriminating against other members of the static'.

If this actually even happened in the first place.

[LalaRu]

Gentlemen, the context it was stripped off the op was: who kicked OP was a Mentor!

Now everything makes sense and it is a legit complain!

[Jeibird]

so let me guess you made an offhand comment about special snowflake sjw feminist homos and you cant possibly fathom how anyone could stand Those People so instead of thinking you were kicked for being a jerk the people who kicked you must just be some pc liberal leftist communists who practice the Very Real Reverse Oppression and youre here to tell us the following: