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EA employees talk gays 'n games

Written by Random J •

This just made me smile. I think it's great to see the games industry pull something like this, and for a company as big as EA to be the ones to do it. Personal feelings about EA aside, this was a great thing they did.

It's bad enough being ostracised for being a gamer and what you love, but to have to deal with pressure and discrimination because of who you love too?! It's a f**kery. Hopefully this video will help gamers see that it's okay to twiddle joysticks with the closet doors open.

The huge misconception about being gay before the 'come out' is that you are the problem. F**k no! The problem is with those who aren't willing to accept you for who you are. And coming out is a great way way for you to find out who your true friends are. Perhaps not so great in the midst of it all, but great in the long run.

I was sifting through the comments over at Kotaku, and of course there were ignorant f**ks making "faggot jokes". But they probably have their own issues. Chances are the guys making those comments secretly want dick anyway. Good luck to them getting it with attitudes like that. And no guy is going to go knocking on their closet door to offer it to them. Unless they're desperate... Really desperate... Like, not had dick for months and can't even get it via Grindr desperate.
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  1. Albee18 December 2010 at 11:09

    Aww, wow. That was really big of EA to do. The cynic in me remembers that this is EA though and I can't help but think there's a guy behind the camera with a gun and some auto-cue cards forcing those employees to read off them all in a bid to lower the negative rep they've accumulated over the years and I half expected a trailer for Dead Space 2 to be tacked on the end lol. But all jokes aside, EA and the employees that put this vid together get major, major props from me for having the balls to do something like this :]

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