the fact that this is news proves that the reaction to the headline is justified
EelBolshevikism
I know they're g*mers but plenty of kids and shit get hit by these scams too, no need to mock them
There's no or which makes this inaccurate
Yeah! I've noticed this for a bit now and I made a whole effort post kind of sort of about this. It's especially weird though because that isn't my experience? Idk in my experience I want to share sexual experiences anyway, there isn't a state where I say "welp I've had enough sex guess I never need to interact with anyone in a sexual way", just like how I never really say "welp I had enough video games guess I never need to play a co-op video game ever".
Big Edit: Actually that's the thing I think these people miss, even when they're credentialed like HealthyGamerGG. People's social-sexual desires aren't always the same as their solo-sexual desires and the fact we just assume they are is weird. And this is the very reason people get all scared about it, they recognize that there's differences to these sexual things in social-sexual situations compared to solo-sexual ones, and they see how fulfilling the former can be, but then they make the jump that solo-sexual experiences can then substitute for social-sexual experiences BUT ARE ALSO less satisfying and therefore not a proper substitute. So they think there's both something special about sex with other people AND that there's nothing special about sex with other people, it's a completely nonsensical position when examined closer.
You could argue that they're just worried that people will miss out on general social interaction and that they think there's no differences in the sexual aspects or desires related to solo or social sexual experiences, but I don't think that's true. If it was these people wouldn't be concerned about it at all because friends exist and plenty of people can go ages without having sex while also getting plenty of social interaction.
Edit 2: beginning to think a huge portion of it is concern trolling about "weird" queer or neurodivergent behaviors or desires. Like an attempt to build a foundation needed to pathologize stuff like furries or even just kinks that are altogether more common in queer communities than straight ones. Actually, if you read Sexed Up by Julia Serano, they go over how the DSM pathologizes ethical and reasonable attractions and conflates them with unethical and fucked up stuff like pedophilia. So there's precedent for this, too. We've been doing it for a while now.
yeah I'm becoming slowly more and more disillusioned with the "masturbation (disgusting, unhealthy, pathetic) vs abstinence (virtuous, clean, chad)" discourse
this is pretty mean to evil old witches
we need to have only admin approved profile pictures and signatures until we figure out what is going on
actually I think forum signatures are cool. just g*mers are not a good holder of that power
I watched the whole thing and found a lot of it really funny. The ableism and racism is definitely way too common in it though. Weirdly though instead of homophobia it uses the example of lesbians in conversion therapy to dunk on evangelicals for being ghoulish, so that's odd given the rest of the tone of the show.
I think it's enjoyable from a "people obviously having fun making random jokes" perspective but the problem is that the people making those jokes are white Americans in the early or mid 2000s so
don't worry they don't give enough of a shit about us to actually try and hurt us after we get a diagnosis. getting the diagnosis if you're an adult is only good because you can use it to get accomodations