Beneath the Hat

Just using this as an outlet for things I want to talk about at length. Follow me on twitter @honzogonzo

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I’ve seen FGC Twitter blow up a few times over the last few days about Todd Harper’s $125 culture of fighting games book, which in turn resurrected blowups about the presentation he did with Maddy Myers at a conference called No Show a few months ago. Missed it then, figured I ought to weigh in...

[honzogonzo]

The Adblock Conundrum

Eventhubs recently has posted a plea on their website that blocks any content that you try and view. This is not a new tactic used by websites, in fact I think this is a great way to encourage people to think about who they are affecting when they use adblock. But there is something Eventhubs is doing and how they are doing it that is just outright ridiculous.

Psychology of Asking

My eclectic cohost Harrison turned me onto a particular video that I think sums up my views of donations and drm. In the video Amanda Palmer basically states that people are willing to help you if there is a mutual trust and human connection between the fans and the artist. You can extend this example of crowd-funding to most other genres, the most notable example being the whole recent Mighty No. 9 debacle. The same thing basically happened but the record label was Capcom. You can see that even though the Mighty No. 9 kickstarter only has 35,000 backers it still has grossed nearly 2 million dollars before it has even been made. This just shows that if you trust in your fanbase and they trust that you will provide them with what they enjoy, then they will support you 100%.

Eventhubs

People have been trying to crack the adblock problem since its inception and I believe that eventhubs is the perfect example of what not to do. Lets frame this assertion with some facts. First off the fact that you can only get past this plea by paying money directly to eventhubs or by turning off adblock they are basically handcuffing the consumer and forcing them to support them. Secondly, while it is not wrong to have content you are proud of and you think deserve to have people pay for it, it is wrong to think that these types of articles are in anyway thought to be behind a paywall. Lastly while I don't support adblocking I do support adblocking sites that introduce extremely intrusive ads, basically anything that might affect me viewing the site or will play a sound that I don't want to hear. This is literally the first thing that happened when I opened eventhubs, so to claim that eventhubs ads are not intrusive you must be high or blind.

Now that we have these facts lets get to why eventhubs is dumb. Eventhubs content is not quality that should be even be considered to be paid for. If you honestly believe that eventhubs should be paid for I can redirect you to Iplaywinner or Shoryuken who provide quality articles rather than tabloid/lazy articles that are routinely produced by eventhubs for free. Now I do not think Eventhubs should be paid for by anyone not looking to shove their nose right up eventhubs ass, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should adblock them. They are a website and you should support them if you go there by turning off adblock it really isn't a big deal. OH WAIT, the ads on the site are giant, obnoxious, and cover the entire fucking screen. I mean I literally just went to the forum with adblock off to find a post and THIS popped up and started to play at max volume.

The site admin for eventhubs posted this and this. Basically asserting that they tried asking their readers to turn off adblock and only 3% did, so as a result they want to force people to support them with the only benefit being not seeing the obnoxious ads. The admin even had the audacity to repost a Destructoid statement as if the situation was parallel. This is Destructoid with adblock off, compare that with Eventhubs and you see there is literally no comparison. Destructoid also offers more than not seeing ads for supporting them with a subscription, you can get a theme, chat with authors, and random contest entries for beta keys or other such goodies. So, there is actually a benefit for supporting the site that you love other than just viewing the same content as everyone else.

The crux

People who love your content will support it if you place your trust in them and provide extra incentives to supporting you. Forcing people to support you is literally the opposite of trust, you are basically turning your readers into a number. All you care about is their view and people realize this very fast. I know you probably have financial issues supporting your giant staff of 4 highly trained journalist who routinely don't cite sources and turn a tweet into an article, but maybe you shouldn't hide behind that in order to justify throwing a passive aggressive virtual tantrum. When people don't care enough about your site to turn off adblock they won't pay for the content unless you provide them a reason to. Eventhubs reason is that "hey we need money, GIVE US MONEY" instead of "We need support, and we will support those who support us."

Eventhubs doesn't want to make a connection with their readers, only with those that pay them. That is the true folly. 

- Carter Gray

[honzogonzo]

Addendum to Gender Post

So, everything past the proposition subject should be taken with a whole load of salt. I just found out my car was fucked into oblivion and I was probably not in the right state of mind to be talking about this. Plus I have a dick so many people don't give a shit what my propositions are in the first place so why even try. Also it wasn't proofread and on sticky subjects like this it prolly should have been. 

It's up to women to try and reform things I suppose. Yah there will be resistance but you will never get anywhere if you are afraid of failure. I still don't know why women don't publicly shame the people who harass them at events. Maybe the best step is to get some of these people out of the community or at least show there are some consequences for your actions.

I really don't know, I am just gunna make people mad whatever I say and I can't do much if people just give up.

-Carter Gray

[honzogonzo]

Psychology of Gender and How it Affects the FGC

Lets explore why women are not generally accepted in the world of  gaming and then in the FGC. Disclaimer, I have a penis.

TOYS

From around 18 months to 2 years sex differences between males and females begin to emerge. Mainly through external differences since most children in the western world don't run around naked (unless your at the beach and thats just weird parents stop doing that). Differences in hair, reinforcement of blue for boys and pink for girls, dolls for girls and trucks for boys, etc. Around the age of 3 the gender lines are more heavily drawn as their is a consistent difference in preferred toys and play activities. Boys will stick with boys and play rougher and also associate in bigger groups. This gender divide in preferred company lasts through most of the remainder of childhood development. While some might say society and parents are forcing gender down their children's throats, its actually really beneficial to have this gender divide during childhood. Having a clearly identifiable group to belong to allows children to learn a lot of social interactions that are necessary to have a healthy social life or just not be the weird guy on the bus. But by having these groups makes both gender groups extremely rigid on the "rules" to being apart of their group. Boys especially at young ages are EXTREMELY rigid when it comes to their attitude about the sexes. Take a 5 year old boys hot wheels away and replace it with a barbie to see the reaction for yourself (side note: hey don't do this its mean he likes cars vroom). 

You might be thinking "Honzo your just a silly stinky boy, get out of my sexes and make me a waffle or get to the point", Well if we take what I just discussed about the gender differences in children into account with women in gaming we can shed a lot of light on why some things are. VIDEOGAMES ARE CONSIDERED MASCULINE. Do I think this? No, but thats what society has believed for the past 30-50 years or so. Societal beliefs are often more rigid than even the law, so outright denying the sentiment does really nothing. This classification most likely comes from the 50-60's where dudes were like "lol women kitchen computrers too hard fo u" and hey thats still around today. Be a woman in a computer class in college, then count how many penises are surrounding you. While I think women are making great strides in both computer and other science fields, it takes a couple of generations dieing to change society on a meaningful level. Seriously old people dieing or getting really old does a lot for progressing past weird/terrible ideals. The elastic clause was literally put into the Constitution to basically write the wrongs of old assholes if need be. So, with videogames being a masculine past time traditionally its hard for men to be accepting of the other sex being apart of this hobby, since they were conditioned and reinforced with the fact that women should be doing other things like knitting or not farting.

EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK YOU

A thought that many women know and have to deal with on a daily basis that is often left out on the whole women in gaming talk/debate/thingy. If you are relatively attractive in any way and you go to a gaming related event, a lot of people are trying to fuck you. It's a combination of human nature and anti social weirdos fostered in silence with videogames and anime being their only childhood companions.

Hey women and men are attracted to each other sexually and want to have sex with one an other, this is normal, this is good, this should happen or we wouldn't have babies to dress up as naruto (stop doing that btw).

The problem is not normal people hooking up normally, its creepy weirdos, assholes, and mentally deranged people trying to fuck any women he comes in contact with. NEWSFLASH LIKE 99.9% OF GIRLS DON'T WANT TO FUCK YOU. Stop trying to fuck every waitress and then call her a bitch when she says she has a boyfriend, its not healthy doods. "I was nice to her why didn't she want to have sex" HOLY FUCK GET OVER YOURSELF YOU ARE NOT NICE, YOU ARE A SELFISH PUSSY. It blows my mind that a lot of men masquerading around saving diamonds in the rough with their kindness expect a blowjob for not punching a woman in the face. Being a faceless moron with no personality not only hinders you in regards to mating, but also friendships so maybe stop.

Some men are like this because videogames back in the day were a great escape for those who didn't feel accepted by their peers. Anti social behaviors are often developed over the years and they really just don't understand how much of an asshole they really are by expecting the world to open its legs to them because they said your hair was pretty. SPOILERS, I was like this growing up, I had friends but I just didn't really associate with them outside of school. I was extremely anti social and was ? why girls I like didn't like me back. I realized I was just one person in a planet with billions of them, no one is going to reward you for being a person. If you want meaningful human interaction then you actually have to interact with them on levels other than trying to fuck them. I imagine you have a group of guy friends anti social weird guy, imagine if all you did was try to fuck them and how quickly they would not be friends with you. So, the videogame community (and a lot of the world) is stuck dealing with these entitled people who make women feel uncomfortable, and it bleeds into its subcultures as well. As to what to do to rectify this, I don't really know its more of personal thing for each person. I'm still a nick carraway asshole sometimes, but at least I work at it.

FGC

"Honzo why did you make me read all that shit, I don't care if you were a lame in high school" Well all that was necessary to explain the current gender issues in the fgc.

Within the subculture of the Fighting Game Community our gender makeup is literally 95% male and 5% female. There are many answers on how it developed this way. Men are classically groomed to be more competitive than women, so in a competitive arena there will generally be more men. Videogames were considered masculine so in arcades there would be groups of boys playing and like we discussed men are very rigid when it comes to sexes. Women would generally not be encouraged to engage in this competitive guy centric environment. The most important factor in my mind and the one that is going to get me in trouble probably is that the builders of the community were goons. Don't even tell me for one god damn second that when a cute girl wants to learn how to play street fighter 2 back in the day the valles and watsons were thinking how to successfully integrate women into the community, they were thinking how to successfully integrate their dick into them. Which is not really their fault they were just kids, its just that we are dealing with that fallout.

So, now we have women who are understandably upset with the current boys club mentality the fgc still has and are assaulted by the anti social creepers at the same time, since most men in the community continually act like children and this is encouraged for some god awful reason. This culminates into a shitstorm anytime a women goes to a major. Literally ask any women about feeling unsafe at a tournament and you will hear 3-10 horror stories. Also not one of the personalities, sponsors, or Illuminati know how to deal with this. SO I am going to propose something.

PROPOSITION 

(Hey before you read on please note I have made an addendum to this article which can be seen here. I really don't know what I was thinking when I was saying some of this stuff but I am leaving it in for credibility sake.)

Instead of having separate tournaments or only talking to women in the community when sexism is the topic, maybe we can integrate them naturally into the cogs of the community. Women commentators, women on podcasts not about sexism, and competent women players. BUT HONZO THERE ARE PLENTY OF COMPETENT WOMEN PLAYERS. Let me be completely honest since tip toeing gets us nowhere. There is not a lot of high placing women at events, either its because they take it less seriously as the people who place above them or they just suck it doesn't matter. HEY WAIT A MINUTE HONZO YOU ARE SHORT AND UGLY AND HAVEN'T PLACED IN ANYTHING. True, not everyone is destined to place at a major or even be good. I am not good, but there are other avenues if you are not good to be apart of the community. Look at the recent pax panel and count the number of competent players on the panel (spoilers its one).

You can make content like playing matches online or tech (youtube.com/adelheidstark being an example), you  can be a commentator (being one sucks but if you work at it you can be respected), or you can start or join a podcast. NOT A PODCAST ABOUT PROHOES OR SEXISM. If you say the term prohoe and are a women you are part of the problem or a prohoe. I am not going to invite a person on TSTS because they are a women. Not gunna happen, I really don't find you being a women interesting at all. I am going to invite a marvel player, street fighter player, or someone I think is funny to come on the show. Does that mean I am never gunna invite a woman on? No, but understand I am going to invite someone who I think will  be a good guest, its not my job to be a paragon of diversity. The fray and SDR have more leeway when it comes to guests since they are a roundtable like discussion. But that does not force them to shoehorn a women on to be like "hey we got a women shut up about it now". I am saying all this to basically express that you shouldn't feel entitled to be on a podcast, commentary, or get views on youtube because you are a woman. Maybe you just suck, no one cares what you think because you are stupid, and can't speak very well. That doesn't have to do with the fact you are a woman, you just might suck. Are there people who suck and no one cares what they think because they are stupid and they can't speak very well doing commentary, have podcasts, and make youtube videos? Yes, a lot of them (me) so don't be discouraged, just don't feel entitled. 

Women do need to get better at fighting games as a person in order to gain respect in the community, so people won't just objectify you (they still will but I mean I can't change that) but actually care what you have to say about the game or a character or balance etc. I feel like women need a role model to aspire to.

So, if you still feel that I am wrong about women sucking I am going to play the Andy Kaufman of the fgc and challenge all women in marvel. I will mm any women for $100(I'm poor thats a lot of money). I don't think women take marvel as seriously as I do so I will prove it by taking all female challengers. I am doing this to hopefully inspire the female marvel players to not suck. I am not even that good yet I can mop the floor with every female marvel player. HEY ARE YOU MAD AT THIS STATEMENT? Good, get better and beat me scrub.

So, closing up this weird post let me just say a couple of things. Women suck in general because they suck on a personal level, they need to get better like a shit ton of dudes need to get better. I can't say why women don't place as a whole, but from woman to woman they just aren't that good. Bring up Kayane and I will blow my fucking brains out, no one cares about soul calibur. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, you live in a capcom world. If you want change and you suck at the game then you have to put in the effort yourself. You have to become knowledgeable about the game, learn how to commentate, get people to like your personality, and keep up with all the meta changes. Its hard and tedious work but you have to be willing to do it to be put in these positions and guess what get ready for the backlash and the hate, everyone gets it but bucking a trend is 10x worse. 

Last thing I have to say is the one thing I see brought up by people calling the fgc sexist that makes me really angry and I think its stupid to bring up. I AM GUNNA CALL THAT FUCKING BITCH PHOENIX A FUCKING BITCH. Why does the insult have to be gendered? BC SHES A BITCH THATS WHY SHES NOT A REAL PERSON FUCK HER I WISHSHE WAS DEAD I FUCKING HATE PHOENIX SHES A BASTARD ASSHOLE BITCH WHORE LIMP DICK FUCK. I C A N N O T S T A N D H E R. You people don't know how much pain, suffering, and money that bitch has caused me. I wish she never existed, so don't you fucking tell me that I can't call that bitch a bitch, bc shes a bitch.

I write this not as fact but as an opinion, if you think it wrong or misguided please enlighten me why. I am not attacking any party or speaking negatively in anyway. All of this is to help the fgc move forward and not dwell on the past.So, help me help you.

(no one proofread this sorry for mistakes and gaps in logic)

TL;DR

read it 

[honzogonzo]

Why dive when you can yolo

Let me preface this look at divekick by saying I have played 50 matches to test out netcode and have played the game in its previous incarnations at tournaments. Beat arcade mode and frauded boss skill. I have placed top 8 at ncr so I am at least passable at the game.

The Game?

Divekick is based around one simple thing, divekicks. It has two buttons, one that controls your jump(dive) and the other that controls your kick. The initial versions of the game featured two characters who were opposites, one could dive better the other can kick better. Thus the game became centered around the players trying to control space by asserting their divekick at certain angles, in hope of hitting the opponent or getting them more favorable positioning. Hey this sounds like a really simple game but lets the players assert the depth onto it by formulating strategies and such. 

Why

The game obviously didn't stop at just two characters, you gotta mix it up in any game. So, popular divekick characters such as Rufus, Wolverine, and Dr Doom were represented in the game. Also the use of special moves at the cost of meter was added to give meter more of an impact on the match and maybe make the character a bit more unique. Hey I am all for introducing elements that spice up the game but still fall in the line of simple space control. Then Jebailey was added to the game. Ok I mean he has projectile kinda thing thats weird....and his head is growing when he loses. Well I get the joke but I mean ok thats odd. Then Markman was added. Ok he threw a thing in the floor and I hit him and now I spawn into this black hole and I have no idea whats happening please god. Then Seth was added. Oh so I have to hit him when his teleport starts up ok, but if he has meter I can't hit him or he will parry me, so every attempt at hitting him on the ground no matter how guaranteed turns into a 50/50 mixup I really can't avoid so I am forced to bait moves out and try and punish and oh he teleported above and behind me and wait he teleported into a teleport into a tracking teleport full screen headshot, aite.

Maybe I am just turning into an old man scrub, but why couldn't the game be what it was. A simple game about space control and angles. Most of the characters not only defy the premise, but just shit all over it. Kenny has a projectile, baz is zip zap zoopin around and has thundergods wrath for some reason, seth is just teleporting everywhere and safe behind a wall of parries, and markman is just throwing random shit at me that can effect me even when I punish him for doing it. You can call me an idiot who doesn't understand the game and you would partly be right, I really don't understand why you would turn a game which premise was superficial simplicity but depth added by interaction into forced depth because you can spawn a portal above my head or make me start in a black hole or you can teleport feint parry me.

Memes

Holy mother of god. When I play this game I feel like I am in a bar with a brony who is talking about how he fucks his stuffed pony. Now I don't know if the irony of making fun of the audience who the humor appeals to was intended, but I do appreciate it. That appreciation quickly turns into a big dick slapping my face really quick as I am hit with 3rd grade stream monster humor every 3 seconds. Now I yolo as much as any normal dude, but in my 50 matches online I heard the words yolo over 100 times. Now I do main Dr. Doom and she does say this quite often but holy fuck.OK I GET IT MARN IS FAT, HE IS NOT HEALTHY AND LOST MONEY AND YOU DONT LIKE HIM I  FUCKING GET IT. After hearing something once I constantly just want to say I GET IT STOP IT.

Memes are important to cultures, if you don't get why just look it up or play mgs2. Its very nature is the fact that it gets repeated a lot. So, when you apply that to stupid jokes guess what happens. The joke gets old real fucking fast. Not everyone is the dude in the back of the movie theater just fucking cracking up at every word Adam Sandler utters ok. People are complicated and so are peoples sense of humors. When you don't respect peoples sense of humor and just belittle it, guess what people don't respond to it the way you intended. I would say the humor and memes took more effort than the scrawlings on a bathroom stall, but I would be lying. Bigdick Tom at least puts forth an effort.

Netcode

Netcode is alright. I am not a fan of rollback because when the game lags my brain has a fucking meltdown as my characters teleport everywhere. But under 100 ms the game is very playable, and under 50ms feels like offline. Above 100ms its shit, but you can choose not to play with connections that exhibit that. Unless you play Kerahime whose ping bounces from 60 to 459 after you accept the match (FUCKKKKKKKKKKK). Leaderboards are cool, they show who plays way to much and all that jazz.

Steam

I played this on steam, was really cool I could get this on steam. I like steam, everyone should. More games on steam. Steam. The pc version has some weird port issues, like not being able to use my mouse to navigate the menus, but thats really a small annoyance. You also get to hear the game volume refracted back at 500% volume as you play with people online who leave their mics on for whatever reason why do these people exist please god why. 

Keits

Hey buddy hows it going. I get you made the game. I GET IT. I AM INFORMED THAT YOU MADE THIS GAME. I UNDERSTAND IT. I CAPECHE. ROGER THAT. I GOT THIS. WROTE IT DOWN. NOW I KNOW FOREVER. I FUCKING GET IT. Maybe the personal jokes about the OBS show, top players, marn, and stream monsters are a little unwarranted. Now by all means I understand its your game and vision and you can do what you want, but from my perspective it comes off as you stooping down to their level. But its merely an observation dood.

TL;DR

Games aite

Wish it stayed geared toward its earlier builds and not forced to be a game that it isn't.

FGC memes are not funny, even in irony.

hey netcode is good

I like pc

Keits calm down bruh

-Carter Gray

[honzogonzo]

Star-crossed e-Athletes

Earlier this morning Justin Wong was evicted from his 11-bedroom estate in Beverly Hills due to the mismanagement of funds of this e-icon. Wong, a prominent e-athlete, declared bankruptcy exactly one week ago and his delinquencies have caught up to him. For six months prior, Wong made a living competing in the glamorous world of e-leagues, making roughly $780,000 in his e-career. Prior to his new found e-stardom, Wong was a part of a loosely associated group of minorities who labeled themselves as the "FGC." He made an estimated $327.76 his entire time e-competing in the events and obviously jumped at the chance to escape the notoriously sexist community. This jarring e-transition from rags to riches was something that Wong was not prepared for, spending a reported $10,000 a month on cool figurines and $1,500 a day on cute outfits for his dog Momochi.

Earlier this week we caught up with Wong at the funeral of Martin "Marn" Phan. Phan, the walking headline for the e-tabloids, died of a heart attack over the weekend after challenging Sherry "SherryJenix" Nhan to a chicken wing eating contest, and suffice to say she won. "I really don’t want to have a full time job. I like pressing buttons on a wooden box for a living. It is really hard," Wong said. "Please enter my raffle for the new Mad Catz TE stick. Momochi needs a sailor outfit for fleet week. Please give money."

The biggest rising e-star going bankrupt certainly raises questions about the current e-climate of the electronic fisticuffs athlete league. Twitch.tv is launching a new after-hours service where streamers can switch their streams to a "nightcap" setting and masturbate on cam for their viewers. Community manager Jared Rea spoke with us outside the 70th Twitch party thrown that month. "We are excited to extend our industry-leading CPM to our after-hour streamers, and with this they will continue to make half of minimum wage on average if they streamed for 80 hours a week," Rea said. "I am personally giddy to watch hours and hours of our leading streamers masturbating for my pleasure."

This news is added to a pile of recent bad news for the e-community. Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, fresh off not getting paid for "The $100 Million Tourney that has $100 million in cash: $100 Million Edition, a John Nelson production," suffered an unfortunate e-cigarette-related accident. During a segment where viewers pay $10 for Ramirez to tell them he is their "friend," an e-cigarette exploded and caused a fire that burned down the FGTV residence. Having no retirement plan, Ramirez was forced to find a job at an adult movie theater and he is in charge of cleaning the viewing booths for $7 an hour. The rest of the household moved back in with their parents, sans one Long "ShadyK" Tran who refused to leave his room and was engulfed in flames.

Next week we follow up on the brutal murder of Joshua "Wolfkrone" Philpot after being beaten to death by a street gang who can only be identified as CORN. Krone was beaten because he was found crying in a movie theater after seeing the movie "Marley & Me 2: This Time It's Personal," which he paid for using the movie tickets he won for placing seventh at some shitty tournament.

...

This is written on December 1st 2012 and has gone unpublished due to I forget. I still think it holds true today so I decided to release it. The rest was also written then as well.

Players will choose to play fighting games as a living, which is fine since it is their life, but they will get older and retire then go back to working at Burger King. Do you really believe that these top players have a follow-up plan, the same ones who squander money-making opportunities left and right? These people don’t stream, don’t produce YouTube videos, and some don’t even write their own tweets. You really expect them to thrive in a world without fighting games? Now, there are exceptions to this as always, but the majority still fails.

I want players and the whole community to not think about money. Stop thinking about money and try actually ,I don't know, playing the game. If you put money on a pedestal it corrupts you and makes you forget about why you were playing in the first place. If you want money let me introduce a radical concept of "GETTING A FUCKING JOB." The American scene is so spoiled and a foreign player comes over with real dedication and real desire to win and blows everyone out of the water. How do you expect to compete with some guy who literally writes notes about you and studies them constantly when you are on twitter complaining about your hard life of free flights around the world. 

Let the corporations descend and feed on the ad revenue that we produce. Let them jettison our stars to fame and riches, so we can dream of one day being cool like them. Then when they retire they can put on their resume that they played video games for 15 years instead of pursuing an education. Making minimum wage, living in a motel, doing heroin and banging prostitutes is the life you have to look forward to. esports.

- Carter Gray

[honzogonzo]

Plea from Me

I am posting this to get ahead of most of the bad sentiments that might stem from the whole Jebailey search history thing. My main purpose is to help enlighten people that many people in the FGC do not care what your sexual preferences are and that transgender guys and gals are welcome in the community and shouldn’t be made to feel bad about who they are.

Jebailey on his talk show, that is worse than the show that sucks every Tuesday at 10pm (hue), had a search bar come down, and it had a url for a transgender porn star. People poked jokes at him mostly because his face instantly recognized his folly. I mean it’s acceptable in my mind to throw a jape his way, he screwed up and showed an erotic link, it’s funny in a dumb way. 

The situation that I really don’t want to happen is for people to judge Alex by that random link. It really isn’t anyone’s place to judge what someone finds erotic (unless its like murder or something). I watch porn, you probably watch porn, and your mom probably watches porn, a lot of people enjoy porn there is nothing wrong with it. I mean there’s plenty of problems in the porn industry, not trying to justify it, but there’s really nothing wrong with watching some. So, for you to wash away all the Alex has done for the Florida FGC,[ and FGC as a whole because of who he wanks off to, then you are just a really ignorant person who deserves no respect at all.

Another issue is that I really hope people don’t spread the notion that transgender males and females are an abomination of some sort, and that if you find them sexually appealing then you are a weirdo. I find that this is a really ignorant, and flat out bigoted standpoint that a lot of people share in this world. I know a lot of people in the community share my views so far as that it doesn’t matter what you identify yourself as, as long as you are a good person 99% of the time we will like you. It is terrible to use someones gender identity to attack them as a person. I see many people trying to strip away the identity of transgender women and men, and then shoehorn them into some freak category. It is not for you to decide how someone identifies themselves. Don’t you get angry when someone tries to shove you into a category that you don’t identify with?

I live in norcal which has a huge transgender population, and some of the transgender guys and gals I know are some of the nicest people I know. I really hate to see when people are ignorant, and hateful toward those who are just trying to be themselves. 

I am not trying to be nor am a moral authority, but I really don’t like hatred stemming from ignorance.

-Carter Gray