Guude protecting Etho vs. pushing Beef is interesting, but just isn't a satisfying answer to me. But I'm not sure any answer could be satisfying to me. Kurt doesn't like crowds either, but he's going to Minecon to meet his friends and fans. I'm sure we can never really know, but I hate to think that Etho might not be going because of fear of fans, and of revealing his face because he'd then be hounded at home. I love the whole Mindcrack community, but I hate some of the entitled mentality of the younger fans. I wonder how film celebrities deal with this sort of stuff. Do you think Justin Bieber gets the same sort of entitled fans stalking him as Etho, or is there something about YouTube celebrity that makes fans feel closer and thus more entitled?
- As for me personally, unless the girlfriend/wife was really into the game and somewhat good, I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy watching one of them play. Having said that, when Pause does episodes with Andrea, I find it really difficult to listen to them because he's in-game and she's not. I would enjoy them more if she was playing along side him.
- As for marriage, I don't need God to valid my love for me, so I'm more on the "marriage is a license for benefits" side of atheism, but most of us are raised in a culture that glorifies the whole wedding/marriage concept. I never had childhood "getting married" fantasies, but a lot of my friends, both male and female, have fantasized about their white dresses or "perfect weddings" and walking down the isle with the one they love while their family and friends gather to congratulate them. To me, that makes absolutely perfect sense--to really celebrate your love publicly in front of everyone, and to make a vow to uphold certain standards together, and none of that has anything to do with religion. I don't think marriage SHOULD have anything to do with religion, in fact. Obviously I think it CAN for those who are religious, but I don't think the whole church and priest/pastor/blessing stuff should have anything to do with the actual benefits of marriage. It's why the whole marriage debate for gays is so disturbing, because it's religion denying people a government benefit, and that's unconstitutional. We have separation of church and state for a reason. If churches don't want to marry gays (or atheists or blacks or midgets or horses) they are absolutely 100% allowed not to because they are a private institution. But they're not allowed to force that across the board. Christianity didn't invent marriage. They don't get to monopolize it for themselves.
Sorry, ranting there.
- As for genderqueerness question later down the post, I do find it interesting that there don't seem to be many. I know Sixelona and RainbowCrisp are lesbians, but in terms of "YouTube fame" they're pretty small fry. Statistically speaking, out of the 20+ guys that have been on MindCrack, at least one or two of them should be some level of queer. (Granted, Guude may fit one of those statistics. I have no idea if he's actually bisexual, but I wouldn't be surprised.) But it is interesting that several of them are so openly atheist or non-believers (which is still a very hot topic and a dangerous one to announce when you're trying to be popular) but would remain quiet on the subject of their bisexuality if they were. Guude especially seems like the kind of guy who'd happily admit he used to have a boyfriend or something, if that was the case, and "fuck you if you have a problem with that."
Perhaps there are other queer LPers out there. I don't watch many outside of Mindcrack and there's no one obviously open on Mindcrack, sadly.
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- As for me personally, unless the girlfriend/wife was really into the game and somewhat good, I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy watching one of them play. Having said that, when Pause does episodes with Andrea, I find it really difficult to listen to them because he's in-game and she's not. I would enjoy them more if she was playing along side him.
- As for marriage, I don't need God to valid my love for me, so I'm more on the "marriage is a license for benefits" side of atheism, but most of us are raised in a culture that glorifies the whole wedding/marriage concept. I never had childhood "getting married" fantasies, but a lot of my friends, both male and female, have fantasized about their white dresses or "perfect weddings" and walking down the isle with the one they love while their family and friends gather to congratulate them. To me, that makes absolutely perfect sense--to really celebrate your love publicly in front of everyone, and to make a vow to uphold certain standards together, and none of that has anything to do with religion. I don't think marriage SHOULD have anything to do with religion, in fact. Obviously I think it CAN for those who are religious, but I don't think the whole church and priest/pastor/blessing stuff should have anything to do with the actual benefits of marriage. It's why the whole marriage debate for gays is so disturbing, because it's religion denying people a government benefit, and that's unconstitutional. We have separation of church and state for a reason. If churches don't want to marry gays (or atheists or blacks or midgets or horses) they are absolutely 100% allowed not to because they are a private institution. But they're not allowed to force that across the board. Christianity didn't invent marriage. They don't get to monopolize it for themselves.
Sorry, ranting there.
- As for genderqueerness question later down the post, I do find it interesting that there don't seem to be many. I know Sixelona and RainbowCrisp are lesbians, but in terms of "YouTube fame" they're pretty small fry. Statistically speaking, out of the 20+ guys that have been on MindCrack, at least one or two of them should be some level of queer. (Granted, Guude may fit one of those statistics. I have no idea if he's actually bisexual, but I wouldn't be surprised.) But it is interesting that several of them are so openly atheist or non-believers (which is still a very hot topic and a dangerous one to announce when you're trying to be popular) but would remain quiet on the subject of their bisexuality if they were. Guude especially seems like the kind of guy who'd happily admit he used to have a boyfriend or something, if that was the case, and "fuck you if you have a problem with that."
Perhaps there are other queer LPers out there. I don't watch many outside of Mindcrack and there's no one obviously open on Mindcrack, sadly.