Gay StarCraft Players - Page 130

On October 19 2011 17:27 adrenaLinG wrote:
If HuK was gay he would be msging his bestest moderator (me) and not his fangirls on facebook >

On October 20 2011 14:07 matjlav wrote:


I actually completely agree with you. People wrap themselves up so much in this "is it a choice" thing when it doesn't matter at all.

One complicating matter is that pro-gay people generally just are confused about what people mean when they say homosexuality is a choice; people usually say that meaning that the actual action of having sex with a person of the same gender is a choice, which is quite true. Most people will not agree that people for some reason chose to have a desire to have sex with the same people. Choosing to want something doesn't really make sense in any context.

Most anti-gay people that aren't completely clueless will tell you that yes, many people probably have some sort of desire for homosexual sex that they can't control, but they can control whether they follow through on those desires. Much like what anyone else would say about people who have internalized pedophilic desires, much as you said, or people who are born sociopaths with a desire to kill.

(Similarly, I don't understand why the fuck people spend so much time arguing about homosexuality being "natural" or "unnatural," as if that has any bearing at all on whether it is immoral. I can think of tons of natural things that are completely unacceptable for people to do, and tons of unnatural things that are widely accepted as okay.)

Personally, I'm not entirely sure that sexual preference is as exclusively in-born as most gay rights activists (quite illogically) insist. Evidence seems to point that way, but it's far from proven. There are lots of people who say that they knew they were gay when they were children, but I certainly didn't. I actually had definite heterosexual desires for much of my early adolescence which, for whatever reason, have since completely vanished.

On October 22 2011 03:35 ExorArgus wrote:
WAIT in the OP he is aware that homophobia is a cultural thing, then ignore it and go on with your daily life. Granted I'm a middle class, straight, white, male, teenager so not much inexplicable hate comes my way. IF SOMEONE DOESN'T ENJOY YOUR PRESESNSE ANY MORE BECASUE THEY FOUND OUT YOU ARE GAY FUCK 'EM. Why would you want to be around someone who doesn't respect you for who you are? Why do you lie to people for recognition that don't respect who you really are? (if you think that "ooo otherwise no one would talk/interact to me", or "my parents would disown me" is a bullshit and you know it)

On October 22 2011 01:03 jarrydesque wrote:
If someone was gay (a pro gamer for example) and they wanted people to know, they would tell them. If they were gay and they didn't want people to know, they certainly wouldn't like this thread with speculation about them. As many of us know, no one likes a bunch of people banging on their closet. If they were not gay, this thread would probably give them a complex.

TL;DR Don't speculate about people's sexuality. Rather say: x is sooooooo handsome. While it may creep them out a bit, its a safer option.

On October 22 2011 07:54 DoubleReed wrote:


We're a bunch of random people on the internet that say stupid crap all the time. Why would any of them care if somebody thinks they're gay? Also, I doubt anybody is saying any of that speculation seriously.

On October 22 2011 04:35 Kernen wrote:
I don't mean to be hurtfull or insensitive, but who gives a fuck if you're gay or straight or anyting in between. Were all here cause we like SC2 enough said.

On October 22 2011 08:19 jarrydesque wrote:


Not everyone in this thread is a "random person that says stupid crap" like you. You don't know how someone might take your "speculation", serious or not, so rather just don't. I explained in three different instances why you'd not want to call someone gay - read the post again.

On October 22 2011 10:27 bangT.T wrote:
shadowpuppet if my favorite gay sc2 player <3 he so handsome

On October 22 2011 08:27 Kerotan wrote:

You are patently wrong. If we were all here just because we liked SC2, never mind BW, the general forum of TL wouldn't exist, along with the blog section.
In short, while you may not care about things that are seemingly extra-mural, people do.

On October 22 2011 10:48 Rylaji wrote:



Why label the thread "Gay SC players" then? Why drag SC into it at all, could have namned it "Gay people on TL" or similar.

On October 22 2011 10:48 Rylaji wrote:



Why label the thread "Gay SC players" then? Why drag SC into it at all, could have namned it "Gay people on TL" or similar.

On October 22 2011 11:02 GDR wrote:
This seems like a juvenile argument. I mean, who cares?

On October 22 2011 10:12 drshdwpuppet wrote:


I know that when I talk about it, I dont honestly assume someone is gay based on how they act for a 4 minute interview and what I have heard from their voice, I do it in the same way as a fangirl being "oooh, he is sooo hot, I wish he would kiss me." It is just attention, I am not calling anyone out from the closet, and while Huk, or any of the other people could be gay, if I learned that information, it would be more of a "cool, someone else I look up to and respect came out as gay, im certainly glad we live in a world where they can do that".

I understand and respect your position, but the only reason that what we are doing could be seen in the way you are describing is because of built in heteronormative tendencies in society.

Also, speculation about every single inane or otherwise detail about a celebrity's private life is part of being a celebrity. It is part of being influential, popular and visible to a lot of people. It would be one thing if I were harassing him on every available interface about his sexuality, messaging him constantly on twitter, jacking his stream chat, blowing up his bnet, PMing him in forums. I, and I certainly hope everyone else, am not doing any of those things, nor would it ever cross my mind to do so. This is equivalent to what I used to do in boarding school: hang out in other gay friend's rooms, talk about random shit and speculate about whether or not someone is gay.

On October 22 2011 08:19 jarrydesque wrote:


Not everyone in this thread is a "random person that says stupid crap" like you. You don't know how someone might take your "speculation", serious or not, so rather just don't. I explained in three different instances why you'd not want to call someone gay - read the post again.