Dear readers,
As some of you may know, I am a rather small time competitive player of Pokemon. As more of you would probably know, the new type chart was released recently for X and Y. What does this have to do with anything? Well today, I responded to a Youtube comment on a Xenon video complaining about how this all threw off the balance of the game. Instead of replying in the comment section the good man decided to reply in a private message claiming that the type chart now debalanced the game by nerfing a grand total of four steel type lines.
Ordinarily I would make no note of such an incident except for two little things at the end of the conversation. First he said that me PMíng him was getting annoying when he was the one who PMed me to begin with. Secondly he said that I "could take my gay type and leave". For those unaware the type he meant was the Fairy type.
This is the exact reason I hate most of the fandom. First let us consider what he means by this statement; which is most obviously the derogatory meaning of the word gay- or rather the idea or concept that one is gay means that they are less valuable to society as individual people. Then let us consider the secondary meaning he posits to us- that being that all Fairy type Pokemon must feminine and weak.
You know what, lets consider both of these at once. What is being said here is that all things feminine, weak and/or homosexual are sub-par members of our society by the simple virtue of being. One does not make a conscious choice in regards to their sexual and romantic orientation for example. That said, what this one statement says is that for reasons completely out of your control you are an unworthy member of this society. Although, perhaps more interestingly, I find a lot of people in that situation are having a hard time even reconciling such concepts with their fear of death. Which brings me to the next point.
If one has a terror crisis over the existence of different people then one should not be allowed on the internet. Why? Because the internet is full of auto-biographical accounts of people who aren't you and of people who disagree with you.
But then again, what brought on this rant? An attempt at a zinger. So I write this to simply think out their written words before they actually send them to a stranger, because in social issues the pen is more powerful than the sword.
From,
Michael Hand
