Breakfast Topic: Real ID or Real bad IDea?

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7-07-2010 @ 3:04PM

Sumitra said...

I take a lot of issue with that comment, Pheras, but probably not for the reason you suspect.
I'm a gamer. I'm also gay.
I also happen to be a published author, software company executive, and public speaker. Everyone I know also knows that I'm a WoW raider.
This idea that gay people got their rights by "time" is not true. We got our rights by *coming out*.
Finding out that the guy or gal you respect is a gamer is how you educate people that it is more common than they thought and not something that is worthy of ridicule.
That's why the "OH NOES PEOPLE WILL FIND OUT I'M A GAMER!" argument against real names rubs me the wrong way...

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