Thank you everyone for your feedback regarding the closing night performance at BlizzCon. While we had some other messaging worked up we were going to post, the members of band wanted to instead address it themselves:Hey guys, we read and heard all the feedback from BlizzCon this year. The Corpsegrinder bit was never intended to be taken seriously. We are sorry that we offended anyone; everything at our shows is just meant in fun. Thank you all for speaking up. We’ll definitely keep this in mind for future shows.
Our humblest apologies,
Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain
AnointedSword wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 10:35:
The bible and nature says homosexuality is wrong...Does that mean I cannot believe and have religious freedoms any longer? I am all for everyone being able to speak their mind. That includes the Christian, the muslim, etc...
InBlack wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 04:50:
Recently a friend of mine got fired from a decent job for being....straight....*I* *shit* *you* *not*.
Ok its not your typical job, he was working as an assistant to a clothing designer, she fired him because he made the models and others in the workplace feel "uncomfortable".
How's that for discrimination....
AnointedSword wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 10:35:
The bible and nature says homosexuality is wrong...Does that mean I cannot believe and have religious freedoms any longer? I am all for everyone being able to speak their mind. That includes the Christian, the muslim, etc...
ventry wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:05:Animals for Crackers wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 00:50:
"BLAH, BLAH, BLAH"
*sigh*
Homosexuality is not "normal".
Nature says so.
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InBlack wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 04:50:
Recently a friend of mine got fired from a decent job for being....straight....*I* *shit* *you* *not*.
Ok its not your typical job, he was working as an assistant to a clothing designer, she fired him because he made the models and others in the workplace feel "uncomfortable".
How's that for discrimination....
ventry wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 02:27:space captain wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:09:ventry wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:05:
*sigh*
Homosexuality is not "normal".
Nature says so.
you do know that there are many instances of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, right?
So is mutated birth and cerebral palsy etc. Still not normal.
Xombie wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 12:00:
GLADD is a great organization, but they're not above criticism for manufactured outrage.
Beamer wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 11:44:
It's not what he meant to say or what he meant to imply. GLAAD doesn't give a shit about the Alliance. What matters is the context in which he used the words he used. Joking or not he still chose those words for that meaning and that's what GLAAD is taking offense to.
Normal seems like a such silly label for what are essentially some religious/social moral imperatives that underpin our society
Animals for Crackers wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 03:13:
Ok ventry, define "normal" in the way you mean it then if you want. The word has like 8 definitions, some value laden and some not.
Say you were a doctor delivering babies and humanity had by then developed some way of reliably detecting a newborn's sexual disposition/orientation (just a hypothetical). Upon delivery of said gay baby (LOL), perfectly healthy and without blemish, would you then tell the mother, "Here's your baby, healthy in every distinguishable way!"
Mother(looking up expectantly at you): "So he/she is normal then?"
Animals for Crackers wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 03:13:
Edit: I guess what I'm trying to get at with this one is... Say you walk up to someone and tell them they aren't normal, do you really think they're going to take it as, "Oh, he's just saying I'm not part of a normal statistical distribution for such-and-such trait!" No, people are going to usually go with the most common usage first, absent any specific definition of the word. You'll likely piss them off, people generally don't like being called aberrant freaks.
Had any of us somehow known beforehand that this young man was going to be treated in this manner there isn't a single person here that wouldn't have acted in some manner to stop it. That is in an entirely different class than pretending outrage at the slightest perceived insult by average goofballs trying to be funny. And you know it.
Are you seriously suggesting that you think someone made a difference because they are "sorry that someone got offended"? Seriously? Nah, you can't be. I know enough about you to know you are smarter than that. No one's view was changed; no one had an epiphany and decided to start handing out flowers of peace in the airport. A guy apologized so he can come back next year and do the same thing all over again. It's absolutely fascinating to see how much people can read into insignificant and meaningless things. Human nature will never change, regardless of how much you try to stifle someone from speaking their mind.
PHJF wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:17:Sure they did. However did they do so for the purpose of procreation?
Besides you still can't get past the facts:
Penis ----> Vagina
Sperm ----> Egg
Procreation
Penis -----> Anus
Tongue -----> Clitoris
Is not gonna get it done. (leaving science's interference aside).
Thank god you've cleared that up, for a while I thought sex was more often about pleasure than procreation but you've really enlightened me. From now on I'll only have sex to inject my sperm at eggs. And masturbation? Right out; it's unnatural!
space captain wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:09:ventry wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 01:05:
*sigh*
Homosexuality is not "normal".
Nature says so.
you do know that there are many instances of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, right?
*sigh*
Homosexuality is not "normal".
Nature says so.
Sure they did. However did they do so for the purpose of procreation?
Besides you still can't get past the facts:
Penis ----> Vagina
Sperm ----> Egg
Procreation
Penis -----> Anus
Tongue -----> Clitoris
Is not gonna get it done. (leaving science's interference aside).