I hear you Mr Emerald but first off i don't give a flying pickle what you look at on the internet just realize that there's no reason to run around in public talking about what you saw there. ALL THE TIME.
And I wish i didn't have to explain every detail but ok I'll put it out there. How this community griefs me about what I have to say might have dissuaded me before but dammit I just about quit this game last set and I may leave after another set anyway so i am just going to say my piece. May as well do it here and now. If this was only about me i would have posted this long ago. I just hope I'm anonymous enough here so that some innocent people will remain anonymous too. Ban me if you see the need.
A little over two years ago I thought it would be fun to get my then nearly 14 year old grandson into the game.
He's a math whiz and watching me play the game when he was at my house caught his attention. It was different than the usual games he's been around and to be honest I was really hyped that it would be a way to interact with him maybe even on a daily basis. Something we could both be involved in even when miles apart.
I was playing on Alliance and Team regularly at the time. My alliance was really good about our forums content and i had no worries that my grandson would be in a good environment.
That didn't work out.
His Mom (my daughter) saw some offensive country names on the servers and would not allow him to play. Back then i thought the names were pretty mild and really, my daughter is not a prude.
But there is some backstory. My grandson has a little sister, two years younger. She was assaulted when she was ten. She still suffers from that experience and perhaps always will. We all will.
I'm no prude either. But having had that happen to my granddaughter at such a young age opened my eyes just a bit to a subject I certainly had been aware of before but only from afar. That Event made me think of all the crap a young girl or even adult women have to deal with on a daily basis. The innuendo, the unwelcome and often graphic advances and slurs. Uncool jokes that I, too, had participated in for much of my life. You might say that out of respect for my granddaughter, i made the effort to see the world from a woman's point of view.
Children, adolescents, can't be 'protected' from everything. That's a given. But the 'grown man' that assaulted my granddaughter saw sexual jokes in everything. He had a reputation that my daughter was unaware of when she moved into her new neighborhood. A couple of neighbors eventually told her about this guy's sleazy behavior when he got drunk but what happened was pretty much unavoidable. You can't keep a child locked up in the house or on a leash. Maybe this happened to my granddaughter because this POS was never directly confronted in the past, or people just put up with his fluff, or laughed along with him. They thought it was raunchy, but generally innocent, fun.
Look around these boards. Look at the country names. That happens all the time here.
So a couple years have passed. my grandson recently turned sixteen. Can he play this game yet? He wanted to. So again my daughter looks at the country names on different servers yesterday.. she emailed to me a few that she found.. Martian fluffs Sheep. oh haha funny - oops can i not say that here? why not? it IS a country name. fluffagion? Lovely.
Yeah i know, nothing a 16 yr old hasn't seen/heard in high school. My daughter is trying to be a good parent. She has the right to prevent that stuff from entering her home. But think about it.. these are ADULTS making those country names. An entire group - mostly grown men - took over the Team Server 6 or 8 months ago with the noble name of Team Sex Offenders.
Now there's a name to be proud of! how original! how imaginative!
how mature! oh? not any of those? well then it MUST be funny right? yeah right. Funny to who, exactly? What goes on inside a grown man's head that thinks that is funny?
Hey it's not just the people here that do this. It's everywhere. Isn't it rather amazing that here we are well into the 21st century and so many guys are still treating women like fluff? What is WRONG with you? Are you afraid that if you don't wag your junk at every passing female someone will think you're gay? Are you really that dense?
All i'm saying is take a quiet moment to look at your behavior and be your own judge of character. Don't wait until someone like me can't take it anymore and goes on a rant.. be an adult, identify and clean up your own mess that's in your head.
And listen up, you wannabe misogynists.. you're a less than average guy, and most women I know and have ever known are heads and shoulders taller than you. They have to deal with your stupidity every day and carry on.
I can't believe I stayed up all night thinking about you pervs with one day of vacation left. You suck.
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