Some people are just fishing for attention.
  • molten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1687·
    12 days ago

    I’m glad I was born a normal straight instead of a really fucking fragile straight.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      574·
      12 days ago

      The thing about being straight is that it’s really easy to get bent out of shape apparently.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      395·
      11 days ago

      I theorize that the fragile straights aren’t actually straight. Which I assume is what the developer is poking fun at with the quotation marks.

      Our social default is still to assume that most people are straight. It doesn’t make sense for a straight person to have a driving need to prove that they are straight … unless they think someone would have a good reason to put them into a “non-straight” category.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      825·
      11 days ago

      Devil’s advocate. If someone wants to call themselves straight, and that offends you. Aren’t you fragile as well?

      • molten@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        11 days ago

        I mean, I guess depending on context? This really isn’t about static titles though. Like, nobody fought for straight people to be allowed to exist. Even in our modern age gays are still executed for being themselves. It’s understandably offensive if someone is like “I want to show pride too!” if the thing you’re proud of is winning the right to openly exist and the thing they’re proud of is… being the more socially accepted and advantaged class?

        It’s not a perfect comparison but it’s almost like if a rich person wanted a trophy for being rich because the lower class just got a trophy for surviving being poor.

      • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
        111·
        10 days ago

        • Being offended by somebody “calling themselves straight” is stupid and fragile.

        • Being “proud of being straight because somebody else is proud of being queer” is stupid and fragile.

        • Being “content with being straight and wanting to label yourself as such in an environment where that makes sense” is reasonable.

        I dont play the game so I dont know the context but I assume labeling yourself straight does not make sense in a fishing game and as such it is most likely about the second point

  • DjMeas@lemm.eeEnglish
    422·
    11 days ago

    This reminds me of my friend. “I’m so gay I’m not even straight-up gay. I’m gay-up gay.”

  • Aeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    11 days ago

    Is that uh… Is that a lot?

    This is fuckin dumb one way or another but if 10,000 fishbucks is a lot factors in a fair amount.

    • LinyosT@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      11 days ago

      It’s not Valve/Steam dictating this. Its a user demanding it and the devs taking the piss.

  • The summer blues...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1220·
    10 days ago

    Congratulations on contributing to othering and discrimination against yourselves and your communities.

    If I were straight I’d be offended at this, not because I’m a fragile widdle loser, but because it literally implies LGBT people are not normal, and it’s a setback in society’s fight for equality.