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[Discuss] Gender awareness on oath page.

Garrett Schaffer spearheadforums at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 05:37:56 CET 2006


I never said I was offended. I make jokes about myself being a cracker
all the time. However, it did seem immature. And if someone was
offended by my comments, again, they are too sensitive.

On 10/31/06, James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Garrett Schaffer wrote:
> > Sorry, I scanned it and didn't truly understand. I was thinking of an
> > explanation page instead of an actual in-game error. James' comment
> > didn't really say much about it anyway. Just oath's page needs to be
> > gender-aware and always says his. I had just gotten out of a political
> > history of the 20th century class and jumped to a conclusion. But,
> > <i>really</i>, folks, do we <i>always</i> have to result to personal
> > insults.
> >
> > Oh and just as a matter of truth: "First of all, I am male, which
> > usually means I'm not a feminist." Not necessarily true btw...but yes
> > I see your point and you did say usually;) . One of those things that
> > depends more on the time in history and the person than your gender.
> >
> > On 10/30/06, Shina <shina at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> Hehehe, you are funny guys ... and, uhm, girls ;)
> >>
> >> I just want to point out how practicable it is with this new titles.
> >> On the tournament, it is much easier now to find female chars, and
> >> adress only them. Before this change, I would have to look up all the
> >> chars that 'sounds' female in the charater's list and open each link and
> >> check if that char began 'his' or 'her' career. That took a lot of time
> >> ... and has absolutely nothing to do with feminism.
> >>
> >> Well, the reason my char want to adress femals, THAT has maybe something
> >> to do with feminism ;)
> >>
> >>
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> >
> You personally offend all the "femanists" in game and then you wonder
> when it comes to personal insults?  Please.  It wasn't even that bad of
> an insult and was obviously a joke.
>
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