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| Still from Star Wars: The Old Repbulic by EA Games |
Denis Farr in today's Guardian:
"In a political landscape which has seen Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign draw attention from many larger entities (including from EA itself),
the attacks EA's games are now facing are akin to the same old bullying
tactics. The issue that is not often addressed about this particular
type of content is that it is not only gay people who engage in same-sex
romances, just as it is not only straight people who experience sex
scenes between a man and woman. EA is not only giving options to those
in the LGBT community, but to anyone who wants to experience a story
that is not necessarily about themselves, just as most media have
allowed for ages." Farr Guardian
The Family Research Council has begun a letter/email writing campaign to try to force EA games to drop homosexual characters from its latest Star Wars game. The campaign has released the usual hatred directed towards gay people generally (as I posted yesterday). EA is holding strong:
"This isn't about protecting children, it's about political harassment." -- Jeff Brown, the VP of corporate communications of
video games company EA
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