Transgender people's feelings are obviously more fragile and important than anyone else's. Say something negative, even unintentionally, at all about them and a large group gets offended. But pretty much all the transgender people I know find nothing offensive about a harmless joke. A few do, but they're outliers and generally perpetual victims. When a straight white man is the butt of a joke it's funny. When a black woman is it's racist and sexist. When a gay or lesbian is, it's homophobic, and if that person was transgender it's transphobic. That's not how the world should work people. Learn to laugh at yourselves more. Humor is a fickle thing, but people should not be offended at every little comment.

People talk about ending hate, then overreact to things and perpetuate hate by screaming hateful things at a person or entity who made a statement in error. Screwing up once doesn't mean you now know everything you're not allowed to do or say, and you should not spread hate, but educate. And pick your battles. Screaming over a tweet that was deleted before anyone actually saw it is insane. And ResetEra needs to burn in a fire for their ridiculous stance on hate. I've seen many posts bashing one group or another, but even stating that you don't understand why people are upset, or asking for a little clarification is worth a ban there. It's a more toxic community than this ever was, with their echo chamber mentality.

As a phrase it could be applied to a bunch of things, but as a hashtag it only existed in one context.

You mean business ethics is an oxymoron? Who knew? ;p

I mean, I just saw a post overthere comparing transgendered peoples' suffering of ridicule with the Holocaust and slavery.

But I'm an orc. :c

What if the person posting on GOG's twitter was trans? Do all the people who were offended assume that all trans people take such things as incredibly seriously as they do?

It would all be so much simpler if commercial businesses would limit themselves to professional transactions, with the occasional right to refuse service to obvious troublemakers.

The "warmth" and "friendliness" should also be limited - general pleasantries about the weather, and only in physical small shops.

The problem we have with business today, is corporations going all "hello, fellow kids" in our arses. It's annoying, it's fake, it divides people, and it hurts the business itself.

Sonny, a point and click adventure game is the greatest thing in the world - except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe...they're so perky, I love that.

Just look at the tweet itself...which explanation makes more sense....

1) GoG saw a popular hashtag, saw a way the phrase matches DRM-free gaming and ran with it.

or

2) GoG are secretly transphobic and are looking for every angle to stick it to the trans folks.

Now, GoG issued an apology to those who felt offended by it. That should have been enough, but of course it isn't for certain vocal minorities. It should be pretty obvious where the over-reaction lies.

Funny how hashtags are created on the spot by someone, it's not like there's a set of them, or they're reserved for anything specifically. Just because someone appropriates it doesn't give them ownership of it. It's words. That's all. But people will go out of their way to be offended by anything.

Sure, it's 100% possible there's just some super coincidence at play here, but the fact is that this hashtag wasn't really used prior to the political events of that weekend and to assume a random coincidence (even when GOG's twitter said they grabbed it from the context of a trend) is to assume the least likely scenario. Moreover, their intent ultimately doesn't matter, if someone uses a poorly thought out turn of phrase that's offensive THEY SHOULD APOLOGIZE. That's just common decency.
I'm complaining that making a joke using it the same day that the government claims it's going to define them out of existence is in bad taste. That's all I'm saying.

dude i would totally eat a mlt sandwhich on a good grain bread with a coarse spicy mustard of some sort.

will have to stop at the store later.

I agree with you, but did you catch the movie reference?

you know, i love that movie, but i had to google it before i got the reference. heck ive even watched it recently.

now, im just really hungry, lol. :D