Ok, this sounds pretty good. He actually seems sincerely sorry.
Damn. It almost sounded like he was willing to learn more on the subject of transgenderism but I guess not. It's sort of sad that he has helped create as massive event where all kinds of different people come together to celebrate games yet has no interest in learning about them. I expect this debacle won't be the last.
Reading that second explanation, I'm more inclined to agree with Gabe than ever.
Him getting pissed off and lashing out is why this is being discussed right now, but this was instigated so ridiculously by the PC police and in some part by the transgender community that it's just mindboggling.
He doesn't have to give a shit and study the intricacies of transgenderism. No one has to. And those who are interested aren't even necessarily assisted. Fuck, I've said several times in this thread that I would appreciate being led to some legitimate material on the subject and points other people are bringing up, and not one could be assed enough to bother linking any. They just keep motioning evasively at "research," which I'm sure exists but am not sure a lot of these ruffled feathers have ever read themselves or even know much about.
The only thing anyone should reasonably expect from another person is to be polite and to not be violent or oppressive. We tolerate people that are different than us and treat them how we would want to be treated. That doesn't mean we adopt their core belief system. And it doesn't mean you're a hateful piece of shit because you don't adopt their beliefs.
But people are demanding just that. Not only that, they demand that other views not even be discussed.
This whole thing started from a panel at PAX that was going to discuss whether the PC police were contributing anything to the community. And instead of going to the fucking panel, listening to what they actually had to say, and asking them important questions in the Q&A, people go ballistic, call everyone bigots, and demand the conversation not be allowed to take place in the first place. Are you fucking kidding me?
Also contributing was discussion over a video game about girls learning to masturbate and people being offended that no one in the game had a dick... Are you fucking kidding me? This is a pure PC lexical complaint that is pure bullshit. It's just baffling.
And in the midst of this witch hunt, no one has stopped to think that even if you subscribe to the belief that a woman can be born inside a man's body and that that person ought to be called a "woman"not a "transgender woman" even but a woman, can you not understand how it might be considered inappropriate to the majority population to give girls a game about how to masturbate a penis? Honestly, the whole fucking thing sounds inappropriate to me regardless, but let's go off the assumption that a kids game about masturbation for educational purposes is an okay thing.
Was Gabe an asshole on Twitter? Yeah. Everyone admits it, even him. But fuck everyone who brought it to that point. This kind of shit is why you get drive-by "PC police" comments. It is out of control. It isn't even about disrespecting people, it's about striving so hard to be considered the same that it is offensive to be reminded that some people are in fact different.
