Conservative Christian Site Goes Mental Over Gay Game Of Life
It should really not come as a shock to me. WorldNetDaily has decided to throw a little huff over the existance of a same sex option in Hasbro's Game of Life.
The online version of a popular board game from many Americans' childhood includes an option for players to choose homosexual marriage and child-rearing as a way of life... even children can download and play a free trial version of The Game of Life, the first game ever created by Mr. Milton Bradley in 1860.The player's first option in the online version is to choose a persona based on pictures that clearly depict men and women. Shortly thereafter, the game invites players to choose a spouse, regardless of the potential spouse's sex...
I would say that is far from an invitation. At least they were smart enough to acknowledge that the original game did not make any real distinction when it came to homosexual marriage either.
The board game did not prevent players in any way from placing two pink or two blue pegs in the front seat [of the playing piece representing the family car], thus depicting a homosexual couple.
Now, I'm pretty sure the reaction most children would have to two men married with kids in that game is going to be either completely passive, or they are going to find it humorous. There isn't going to be a Sleepaway Camp style mental break that is going to result in a homicidal tranny with a daddy complex.
[via GamePolitics]
Asterick
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 13 March 2009
· Comments (9)
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Oh screw the Christians AND their kids! i mean really though...i'm sick and tired of hearing Christians/Parents bitching and whining about so-called "foul balls" that they feel are going to hit "the children". Fags and Lezzies getting hitched is the future, get over it ma and pa.
Clearly this is a sign of the apocolypse next they will let you choose a dog as your spouse as that is the obvious progression. first gays get married then people marry animals......right?
well this company is obviously run by the antichrist
yes this was all sarcasm i hope you realised that before this disclaimer
I love playing life, and my car is always got two little blue pegs driving. Too bad we somehow always wind up with an overflow car of little blue and pink pegs in tow. That's why I instituted my rule of "sell em to slavery" where, at the end of the game, you get $50 for every peg in your car. Retire in style!
When i played as a kid, i pretend the guy driving was Michael Jackson and made the wife sit in the very back or in a tow-behind car...then fill the car with male children.
Okay so i was a special kid :D
It actually prompted me to drop a Jackson on the game, just to make a point.
This is great. Several of my friends would put two guys or two girls in the front when playing the real game, why shouldn't the virtual game allow it as well?
Mind you I could care less about the boring game anymore, but for crying out loud, there's gotta be something better to get offended about if you absolutely MUST be offended at something.
Right down to the generic, inoffensive-sounding name, WorldNetDaily is rapidly becoming the Weekly World News of the blogger set: a source of outrage for some, comic relief for others... and for a supremely batty few, a source of "truth" as they'd like it to be.
You totally missed some sweet spots in that article. For once, they are obviously inexperienced with hyperlinks, as their link to shockwave.com (how antiquated) doesen't work.
Secondly, the author claims to want to protect the children from this "mature" and "insidious" content, yet deliberately involves her 6-yr old daughter into her research, exposing her willfully to the twisted content of this game. Shame on her, what kind of mother does that? It's akin to feeding your child foodstuffs that you know are contaminated, just for the sake of writing your article. How that Editor remains on staff at that site is beyond me!
No wonder a company like Milton Bradley refused to answer this editors' request for comment. I wouldn't want to be seen in any kind of connection with this kind of research. They are a reputable family company for crying out loud!
This is disgraceful. I am appalled!
By the by, Zahn is German for Tooth, so literally WND's Drew Zahn is a pulled tooth, rotten to the core. I just hope my kids never get exposed to her kind of research!
Actually Tek Guy, that wasn't the author, that was someone who contacted them. And Milton Bradley no longer owns the copyright, Hasbro does.