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OpenAgeRatingsService: why "sex-homosexuality"?

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OpenAgeRatingsService: why "sex-homosexuality"? - sh.itjust.works

I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me. <content_rating type="oars-1.1"> <content_attribute id="violence-cartoon">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-fantasy">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-realistic">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-bloodshed">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-sexual">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-desecration">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-slavery">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-worship">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-alcohol">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-narcotics">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-tobacco">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-nudity">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-themes">none</content_attribute> <!-- this line here --> <content_attribute id="sex-homosexuality">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-prostitution">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-adultery">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-appearance">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-profanity">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-humor">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-discrimination">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-chat">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-info">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-audio">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-location">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-contacts">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="money-purchasing">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="money-gambling">none</content_attribute> </content_rating>

May 14, 2024 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadkevincoxMay 14, 2024
Because some people want to filter it out. So it gets a label.
Show threadAurenkinMay 15, 2024
Or filter it in
Show threadSnot FlickermanMay 14, 2024
Because some bigots want to filter it out.
Show threadShayetaMay 15, 2024
Excuse me for wanting to filter out heavily homosexual content. If you like it go ahead, I just don’t want to see it.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 15, 2024
exactly, it’s not bigoted to want to filter it out (or heterosexual content). I swear these kinds of people are the type who want to make it legal to force someone to watch them have sex in front of you.
Show threadCapillaryUpgradeMay 15, 2024
By “heavily homosexual”, do you pornographic? Because that’s a separate tag.
Show threadbeefbotMay 15, 2024
100% she means “anything that’s even remotely close to …THAT shudder”
Show threadbeefbotMay 15, 2024
I don’t want to see heterosexuals but you don’t see me legislating against you, subtly erasing you, and actively hunting you. So no. You’re not excused, sweet cheeks.
Show threadjsomaeMay 15, 2024

All of these represent various social mores. I’d have no problem with my kids seeing content involving fantasy violence, but I respect that others might object. As a bisexual myself, I have less respect for those who object to their kids seeing homosexuality specifically, but I can tolerate their existence.

For fairness’ sake, I wouldn’t mind it if heterosexuality were on the list too.

Show threadNisaeaMay 19, 2024

I think things got lost in translation here. We’re not talking about explicit/pornographic content here. There are other tags that cover that. This, however, indicates sexual orientation in general which covers any display of affection that characterizes same gender couples, including kissing, holding hands or be explicitly in a relationship, which is no less appropriate for kids than straight smooching.

Hope that helps

Show threadjsomaeMay 20, 2024
Yes that was clear to me. I was saying that, while I don’t find same-sex content objectionable (indeed it makes me happy to see this kind of representation on screen), and I personally think it’s something children should be exposed to, many people would disagree. Just like other tags on here which I think children shouldn’t be exposed to at a young age but others wouldn’t mind. Relative morality.
Show threadNisaeaMay 20, 2024

Oh yeah, absolutely. It, unfortunately, a reality.

To mine as well, I’m with you on that one.

Show threadpaysrenttobirdsMay 15, 2024
They should have one for heterosexuality, too, if it’s all about tastes.
Show threadbeefbotMay 15, 2024
No kidding. So sick of hearing about those people 😙
Show threadDaGeek247May 15, 2024

From their website;

OARS relies on honest answers from upstream projects and is purely informational.

Gotta admit, despite being bi, i still avoid most m/m stories on the amateur writing sites i follow. Shit gets weird fast.

OARS: Open Age Ratings Service

Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 15, 2024
I pretty much always just avoid m/m media (except for the… obvious genres) regardless of where it’s pretty much all trash, there are some good ones, but there is so much garbage it completely drowns out everything else
Show threadAnAnonymousMay 15, 2024
Cos there are people who are not interested in homosexual stuff cos they are not homosexual?
Show threadHanrahanMay 15, 2024
Tha makes no sense unliss there was also a hetero tag for homosexuals to use.
Show threadAnAnonymousMay 15, 2024
Maybe it should be but as homosexuals are a minority in human nature I believe there is no point for developers to do it as they are more interested into making their software work for the majority of people.
Show threadllamajester421May 15, 2024
Um, equality? Accessibility? Not siding with autocrats violating human rights?
Show threadllamajester421May 15, 2024
This is outright false. If there aren't graphical or explicit illustrations that are deemed pornographic, then homosexuality and heterosexuality should enjoy the same status as encyclopedic knowledge. This is some "Don't say gay" stuff.
Show threadpingvenoMay 15, 2024
Nah, let’s be honest, this is so that parents can make sure precious little Bobby doesn’t catch The Gay. LGBT themed cinema is going to let you know, this is for making sure there isn’t a trace of homosexuality to darken Bobby’s pure little heart.
Show threadAnAnonymousMay 15, 2024
I think it’s more about homosexuality being an anti-natural behavior, animal and human(as we are animals) females and males are meant to reproduce, so from the point of biology homosexuality goes against the reproductive needs of the specie to keep alive. I believe it’s not about homosexuality being evil/bad or wrong.
Show threadDeckweissMay 15, 2024
You can find ~5% homosexuality in nearly all animals, it also increases with overpopulation. It can not get more natural.
Show threadCapillaryUpgradeMay 15, 2024

That argument is obviously wrong.
Homosexuality (and other sexualities) exist in nature. This is not uncommon knowledge.

Also, the whole “they don’t make babies so they’re unnatural” thing. How long have you thought this argument through?
Humans and animals are born sterile, they grow too old and become infertile. All of that happens in nature.

That fantasy world of yours is verifiably not how nature works, and it wouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes to disprove the bullsh*t.
It makes it hard to believe you are arguing in good faith.

Show thread520May 15, 2024
Because by law in certain countries, homosexuality is persona non grata, and a filter needs to be there to legally operate in such countries.
Show threadllamajester421May 15, 2024
Do these backward shepherds that stone their wives need computers?
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 15, 2024
The Republican culture war being waged against the LGBT+ community should make it completely clear that your skin color or brand of religious nonsense doesn’t make you immune to bigotry.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 15, 2024

if the democrats would stop drumming up as much hatred as possible towards us it wouldn’t have become such a large issue in the first place, People feel like it is getting worse, because it is. People who never even cared about whether someone was gay or not now has a strong negative association towards us because democrats have the incessant need to shove it everywhere they go.

It’s no surprise that people are starting to hate gay folk when they get shit for so much as looking away when they see gay people kiss in public. The amount of time’s I’ve had to say “I’m not one of those gay people” is absurd.

Show threademziliMay 15, 2024
Lmao, I can assure you that to people who hate gay people, you will ALWAYS be one of those people no matter how pathetically you grovel at their feet, the democrats have nothing to do with that.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 15, 2024
no, they didn’t. this is behavior I’ve observed in person for multiple people.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 15, 2024
The far-right is not the Democrats fault and I don’t know why you’re bragging about selling out your community.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
it’s not the “far right” that’s the issue, it’s the fact that the far left is generating high amounts of animosity from anyone relatively centrist.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
“Thanks for pushing normal people to the far-right” is an overt strategy passed around 4chan and far-right chat channels, intended to both discourage the left from defending their views and create the idea that being bigoted is something “normal people” support.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
I disagree that it it’s bigoted to for instance, not like games which have rewritten characters to fit a certain demographic, whether it be sexuality or race.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
Okay Gamer.
Show threadyoumaynotknowMay 16, 2024

“Defending your rights” and being as loud as possible for the sake of it are 2 completely different things.

The two closest homosexuals in my life are my favorite uncle and my best friend, that happens to be my attorney. My uncle is openly gay, my attorney is married to another woman. This has absolutely NO impact in our interactions. Why? Simple, that’s their business, and everyone in their environment understands this.

If you have to be constantly “defending” your sexuality, you need to examine the environment you have chosen to participate in.

The problem here is not sexual preference, the problem is that sexual preference, for reasons I can’t begin to understand, has become the defining factor for people, instead of principles, moral, honesty and just flat out being nice.

When was the last time you saw a “heterosexual” parade, specially with a bunch of people swinging it all out?

Whatever happened to “you do you, I do me”?

Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024

Whatever happened to “you do you, I do me”?

Literally the sentence before that one was you being critical of pride parades, so I guess you mean “You do you (but only with my rubber stamp of approval)”

Show threadyoumaynotknowMay 17, 2024
Pretty much.
Show threadFeathercrownMay 16, 2024
If you’re still bigoted towards gay people I don’t want you on our side tbh and if you’re now on the right I don’t think you were centrist in the first place. General “you,” of course.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024

I think people are really underestimating how bad some people are starting to feel about it. It’s constantly being talked about it the news in fairly negative circumstances. Constantly being shoved in peoples faces, “Pride Parades” where people are walking around almost, (and in many cases fully) nude in the middle of the day. Media constantly being changed (and often for the worse) to accommodate the inclusiveness etc.

a lot of people are fine with this, but even I as a man who likes men, think it’s absolutely disgusting to be walking down a public street with your dick and balls, or a woman’s crotch fully exposed. but being against this makes me a “heterosexual bigot” somehow.

People are doing so much to generate as much animosity as possible against, and I’m really starting to hate this term myself, LGBT folk. Folk who just want to mind their own business, aren’t allowed to anymore. and all of negative bullcrap, people ruining old media, walking down the streets naked, screaming at people for trying to mind their own buisness etc. all winds up getting tied to LGBT stuff.

This is what I mean when I have to tell people that I’m not one of “those gays” because I don’t think it’s right to do any of this garbage. And this garbage does make people hate the “LGBT” community.

Show threadFeathercrownMay 16, 2024

pride parades

The news is the only thing that cares. I’ve never seen one.

media being changed

Often done for diversity’s sake at the cost of quality, yes. This is executive meddling and generally doesn’t work as intended.

Folk who just want to mind their own business, aren’t allowed to anymore

You totally are, just avoid media hype.

I don’t even think you’re necessarily wrong, but I’m arguing that in the absence of media amplofication and/or existing bigotry, this would not be a problem.

Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 17, 2024
I do agree that media amplification is not only part of the problem, but a significant portion of it. but the media influence has started to regretfully show its effects
Show threadfemtechMay 15, 2024
Wow, thYs some victim blaming right there.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024

Not really. some people like things and some people don’t, getting in trouble for so much as not liking something and trying to distance yourself from it is absolutely insane. I don’t like watching straight couple make out in public. im not a bigot for looking away, but when it’s someone straight who looks away from a gay couple doing it all the sudden they are the some of the worst people.

utterly absurd.

Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
This situation doesn’t exist outside your imagination.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
I have had the unfortunate privilege of witnessing it happen to a friend.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
Sure. “It happened to a friend”.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
Yes I admit I don’t have evidence, because unlike the modern tards of today’s society, when a friend of mine is getting shit for some stupid reason, im not going to just sit and record it.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
You’re really bad at staying mask on.
Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
im not sure I understand.
Show threadPoliticalAgitatorMay 16, 2024
Shocking nobody.
Show threadFeathercrownMay 16, 2024

People who never even cared about whether someone was gay or not now has a strong negative association

Or they can be a big boy and suck it the fuck up

Show threaddrwankingsteinMay 16, 2024
funny how this only ever works one way regardless of who you talk to.
Show threadFeathercrownMay 16, 2024
I’d like to think I apply it fairly, although note that there’s a difference between “those people were mean, stop feeling sad” and “those people were mean, but you still have to treat them like they’re humans.”
Show thread520May 15, 2024
I dunno, why don't you ask, eg: Russia?
Show threaduzayMay 15, 2024
I too think that it would be better for everyone if the USA was cut off from technology.
Show threadEmma_Gold_ManMay 15, 2024
Not everyone that disagrees with a law is in a position to immediately change it.
Show threadihatelinuxMay 15, 2024
Thank you for actually providing an answer to the question, and for not insulting anyone.
Show threadHanrahanMay 15, 2024
As another user mentioned, I’d suspect because gay is still a death scentence and/or a criminal charge in some places, those would insist anything gay must me filtered ?