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04-28-2009, 07:52 PM
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Star Wars, Homosexuality And You.
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BioWare take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on Old Republic's message boards about homosexuality, because it's a term that does "not exist in Star Wars".
Yes, if you care to trawl around the site, there are a few threads that either began as, or devolved into, discussion of how the game - or the game's future player base - would handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words "homosexual", "lesbian" and "gay" being censored on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWare's community manager Sean Dahlberg posting succinctly:
As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.
Thread closed.
OK, but...they do, uh, realise that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either, right? They're real people?
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http://kotaku.com/5230325/there-are-...s-in-star-wars
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04-28-2009, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Wow.
What the hell.
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04-28-2009, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Yet it is ok for a sister to passionately kiss her brother? Riiiiiggghhhhhht.
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04-28-2009, 08:16 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Twice, too. Might have been thrice.
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04-28-2009, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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They're probably doing it to, uhm, maintain the brand image of Star Wars. Marketing makes the world go round... well, even in the Star Wars galaxy, I suppose.
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04-28-2009, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Inside Eva O's uterus...
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I WISH there were some gay relationships in Star Wars. Maybe Padme and her decoy going at it...
God, I can't get that out of my head now...
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04-28-2009, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Originally Posted by Schazmyrrh
They're probably doing it to, uhm, maintain the brand image of Star Wars. Marketing makes the world go round... well, even in the Star Wars galaxy, I suppose.
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And I meant the censorship of the gay threads and such... not the incest implications.
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04-28-2009, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I'm pretty sure there must be a story somewhere in the Star Wars universe about a near human alien falling in love with another type of near human alien.
Interplanetary interspecies love is alright but homosexuality is not even something people can fathom?
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-28-2009, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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If I remember right I think I read about in the first kotor that you're able to have a lesbian relationship. Also In Mass Effect you can have a lesbian/interspecies relationship.
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04-28-2009, 11:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cardiff
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Yeah, your character was able to have a lesbian relationship in the first kotor game.
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04-29-2009, 12:29 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Originally Posted by Renatus
If I remember right I think I read about in the first kotor that you're able to have a lesbian relationship.
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Yeah, with Juhani I believe.
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04-29-2009, 01:15 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Hurrah for the most pathetically bigoted news I've read all day...
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04-29-2009, 02:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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This should convince some Warsies to switch to Trek (if they're not already fans). In Star Trek, you can get some hot lesbian action. Hot alien lesbian action.
It don't get much better than that. 
(Aww... smileys still don't work.)
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04-29-2009, 07:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
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I think you guys are missing something....like the whole Star Wars v. Star Trek thing. I'm guessing this was done to discourage people from developing alternate plot lines and Star Wars slash fic--as Star Trek fans have done. It probably wasn't meant as discrimination against gays but as an attempt to keep Star Wars from descending to the same level of geekdom that Star Trek has.
(Now, all of you who totally missed my point, feel free to flame me because you think I'm homophobic.)
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04-29-2009, 07:27 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Considering both the first three movies and the newer three movies had one major female character each, all those men must be lonely. Not the fans fault that its such a sausage fest. Besides, its a mmmorpg that they're talking about, not slash fiction.
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04-29-2009, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
...an attempt to keep Star Wars from descending to the same level of geekdom that Star Trek has.
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Yeah, they sunk to that level, and far beyond, a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away).
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04-29-2009, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows
This should convince some Warsies to switch to Trek (if they're not already fans). In Star Trek, you can get some hot lesbian action. Hot alien lesbian action.
It don't get much better than that.
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I'm a fan of both. Also star trek might have symbiote possessed lesbian action, but star wars has hot tweileks, hot sith, and hot sith tweileks.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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04-29-2009, 01:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
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I loved Star Wars until they came up with the new books that continued the story to such a ridiculous predictable plot. Although there is more heterosexual love later than, first three episodes contained one female character, who by the way, looks more like a surf-board than a girl.
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