Wow.
So I posted this ad a few weeks ago on the suggestion of a friend who thought it would be great to bring in some new players. We've been trying to get our small but friendly community active again, and summer's usually a great time to welcome new players who have a little more time to settle in to a MU* community or even learn how to play a MU*.
I come back here to check and see how it's going and just get...all this hate for something the first reply on my topic decides to bring up, because of their own issues and assumptions. That's pretty amazing. And then we have people jumping in -- not taking the time to understand -- and assuming a bunch of tumblr-level stuff about us.
If you weren't aware, we do not care what biological sex, gender, or gender identity any player is. All we are is a game for male characters as PCs. If you find that "creepy", then move right along. It is not a game for you. But I'd appreciate you not trying to insult my game and the community there by assuming a huge amount of things about a game that is clearly not your thing.
Second, we have more than just superhero worlds, and there's a lot of fun to be had. But if you want to point at the superhero stuff...it's pretty homoerotic in its purest form, just saying.
Third, there's really no end of games I could name over the years and now that either welcome women of all kinds, but there's a reason why versatile bisexual women are often called "unicorns". The one or two games that have ever welcomed primarily non-hetero male characters (keeping in mind that we also welcome straight guys as characters and have a couple of very secure straight male players who just like the atmosphere) do not exist now.
Gay and bi male characters tend to struggle, even in settings where they are of that orientation in the original source material. In superhero genre especially, these characters have always struggled and been ostracized and, to quote a friend, tend to be "treated like a barge of medical waste". It's a disturbingly common experience. I opened Flights 'n Tights to be sort of a place where people who wanted to play those characters could play them and have fun, without pressure of living up to the largely heteronormative other settings that tend to dominate the landscape.
Because believe it or not, we still -- even in this day and age -- have games that have a NEWS SEXUALITY and police this stuff. It's ridiculous. We have people who put forth heterosexuality as a default for any character who hasn't adequately "proved" otherwise. Which, if you're familiar with the various gay and bi guys in superhero comics...is kinda silly. Anime is even sillier.
I just wanted to chime in here and say, I'm really disappointed at some of these people commenting on this topic. I thought that here, of all places, would be a nice and cool new place to connect with people and let them know we're around if they want to come hang out and have fun. I am very grateful to those who have spoken up and set some people straight (no pun intended), but good grief. This is really sad and upsetting to log back in to, and it's just more proof that well...Flights 'n Tights needs to stick around, because jfc this is ridiculous.
Feel free to stop by. I'm around most days for sure from midnight EST to around 1-2 PM. We're trying to get some group scenes going on Sundays and some Tuesdays and, regardless of what anyone may assume...we are happy to have you join us.
But if the game's not for you, please don't just troll with things you pulled out of your posterior to hurt us. We work hard and try to make a good game for everyone who might enjoy it. I don't care for Dune as a setting, but I am certainly not going to sit down and point fingers at a game I've never played, which doesn't appeal to me as a player, when someone posts a Dune MU* ad. I'm going to go instead, like an adult, to a listing that appeals to me and see if anyone has anything to say about their experiences.
