More, more, too much?

Hello Blog Readers, happy Sunday,

Here is an update on the woman who was banned from X Box Live for identifying as a lesbian. I think it is interesting how they use say "for gamertags or profiles we do not allow expression of any type of orientation, be that hetero or other". That heterosexuality is always biting people in the butt. The article is concluded by saying that "Microsoft's position on this issue has been consistent — whether you are actually gay or if the word gay is in your name.". WTF? What about if you are straight and identify as it? And, whether you are actually gay... heaven forbid someone actually be something.

Stephen Toulouse handles the policy for XBox Live service and here is what he had to say about the issue. I think it is funny how they are changing the word banned to suspended in the articles. And how they try to stop all forms of sexual and racial harrassment. Do they try to stop harrassment against women that doesn't involved sex or race?

Here is another comment about the article.



This isn't the first time that someone has been suspended on XBox for stating their sexuality in their name. Here is an aricle about thegayergamer and how he was suspended. Make sure to read the comments attached to see what people say about these types of articles. It is mind
blowing.


Probably the last post on 'gay gaming' minus the updates on Theresa. This man's last name was Gaywood and was suspended.


Well I am happy that Microsoft is finally looking into a way to represent gender and sexuality in gaming. Microsoft is currently looking at "a way to safely express relationship preference" without it getting misused.


Peace,
Kerrilynn

Lesbian Profiles

On an Xbox Live console you are able to create a gamers profile. When you create the profile you are allowed to put anything you like but as soon as you start playing 'live' with other people they have the option of complaining about your profile.

This is a short write up about one woman who identified as lesbian on Xbox Live and was ban from the service after her Xbox Live peers complained about her profile.


Peace,
Kerrilynn

Nude Moments in Gaming: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I don't think that I am going to apologize for posting links for article related to gaming anymore.

Here is another link to an article that discusses naked women in video games. The article looks at about ten different games. Most of the women in them are topless, don't get too excited because there are little fish covering their nipples. Little fish?

Peace,
Kerrilynn

More Video Gaming Fun!

You can find this stuff everywhere! I think it is interesting.

This first story is about a 13 year old dad. Do you think that the actions in video games really helps to shape a persons behavior?

This one is about full frontal nudity in games. I don't really know how I feel about this one. I mean, I don't really care if people are naked or not but it is the type of thing that causes a lot of social tensions within communities regarding who should play games like this. It is the foul language that I don't like.

This one has the revealing of full frontal nudity. Oooooo I know curious minds might take a look. My partner told me that "the first game that they mention at the top of that page, Custer's Revenge, is considered to be the crudest game ever made. You play as a cowboy who rapes indian women... it was made in the 80's, a little extreme" and that "you should Wikipedia it."

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Pregnancy in Video Games

Here is another interesting read about pregnancy in video games

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Update!

Do you remember the link I posted a while ago about the woman who wanted a divorce because her husband was cheating on her online? Here is an update on the story. If you can watch the whole video, it is really interesting.

http://kotaku.com/5141854/cheating-second-life-husband-the-movie

The full documentary can be found here:

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/strangers_in_paradise/video.html

Peace,
Kerrilynn

I could use one of whatever it is

My mom sent me this picture in an email. I just thought that I would share it with the world.

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Derogatory words don't make my day.

This is my last picture from my trip to Florida. I took the picture while in Disneyland. There was a ride called Tom Sawyer's Island and you had to get to it by a boat that looked like a raft. On top of the raft read the sign in the picture. I could not believe it! That Disney Land, out of all places in the world, would have such a derogatory word especially on a sign for a kids ride.



Here's to world peace,
Kerrilynn

Pro-Kerrilynn : A parody on the Catholic Vote Video

I had great fun doing this.

Peace,

Kerrilynn

Why I like Daytona Beach

My Winter vacation in Florida this year was most enjoyable for me and my camera. The talk of gendered bathrooms is one that comes up at least once during a Women's Studies class at UPEI. Students and Profs can sit there for hours and rant about the number of ways that our campus has gendered bathrooms, the way that these bathrooms regulate gender, and the consequences in doing so. The main problem that I find with all the bathrooms on campus is not so much that they are gendered, but that they show a little figure of either a 'male' or a 'female' on the door. This figure has multiple looks in many different settings. Sometimes one will see the traditional boxy looking figure, in Jungle Jim's they have Jane or Jim on the door, at fancier resturants they may have a lady in a big poofy hat and a man in a tuxedo, and so on. These pictures to me are not very inclusive and make me feel as if one must look like the image - look female - in order to go into the bathroom. The pictures are exclusive in that they do not include all people who may not necessarily look feminine but identify as female.
What I liked so much about this bathroom on Daytona Beach is that it did not contain a little figure, it strictly said the word women. I felt like it was inclusive to everyone who identified as woman and did not exclude by putting up a boxy little figure.

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Stereotypical Soap

I took a trip down to Daytona Beach Florida for Christmas Break this year. While there I went to a huge flea market and in it was a soap stand. I was doing all that I could not to take pictures of all the soap packages there. Here are just a few

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Gender Gaming

I am sometimes glad that my partner is a gamer who reads gamer blogs. He forwarded me these links, you should check them out:

The first one talks about the rise in bisexual gamers:

http://kotaku.com/5116637/study-shows-mmo+playing-women-overwhelmingly-bisexual

The second one talks about womens role in gaming:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7796482.stm


Peace,

Kerrilynn

This is kind of interesting

As you will find out, I was hesistant to post this on here ...

"The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crïeche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her, 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you'd better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein"

Peace,
Kerrilynn

Do you have a cyber identity?

So, after Monday's 412 class I have been continuously thinking about whether something on the Internet has the same degree of effectiveness as something that happens in 'real' life, or face to face does.
It is interesting to see the ways that people present themselves online. People have the freedom to be any character and identity that they choose and they can behave in ways that they would not in real life.
I have a really interesting like to an article. The article tells the story of a couple who met on the Internet, were then married, on the Internet and in real life, and were then divorced after finding a partner cheating on them electronically. Wow, check it out and make sure to look at the accompanying link for further info on the subject.

http://kotaku.com/5088488/second-life-marriage-ends-the-way-many-real-ones-do

Peace,
Kerrilynn

ps. I am going to create a second life account myself and keep everyone posted on the things that happen.

Pictures of the Day

I came across these pictures in an email and just had to post them. I think they are so cute.

Peace,
Kerrilynn