Fuck, Shit, Fag and Homo at GameStop
Dear GameStop,
Two days ago on September 12, 2007, at around 5:30pm, I visited GameStop store number 4101 in the Fashion Center Mall in Pentagon City located at 1100 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202. I was there to buy a new Wii console along with some games and accessories. It was an unpleasant and disturbing experience marked by poor customer service and a surprisingly high level of homophobia.
When I first arrived, I was pleased to find six or seven employees inside the store. “Great,” I thought, “they’ll help me quickly.” That wasn’t in the cards. The employees were deeply enmeshed in conversation and had arranged themselves on either side of the counter so that I was unable to get anyone’s attention. I waited for a lengthy period of time. Here’s a quick visual representation of the situation:
As I waited for the employees to realize that they had blocked customers from actually buying any products, I was privy to their conversation. In reality, even if I had been standing on the walkway outside of the store I would have been privy to their conversation–it wasn’t quiet.
While I waited to be noticed, I was surprised by their loud and frequent use of the words “fuck” and “shit” in casual conversation. Eventually one of the employees indicated that the male employee behind the counter was having dreams about another male employee and that he was, hence, a “homo” and a “fag.” They went back and forth for a few minutes, debating whether the counter employee was in fact a “homo.” The guy behind the counter argued that he was merely dreaming of “running over” the other male employee with a large motor vehicle and was, therefore, not a “homo.” Again, this was not a quiet conversation.
At this point, the non-”homo” behind the counter noticed that I was waiting and took my order.
Now, while I wasn’t all that happy about the “fuck”s and the “shit”s, it was GameStop so I was willing to accept a somewhat lower standard of decorum than I would from other retail establishments. I understand who your target demographic is. If that was all there was to it, I would have just written off the unpleasant attitude as simply a sign of a store with poor (or absent) local management. The slide from annoying swearing into casual and open homophobia and bigotry, however, was really surprising and disheartening. Is this how GameStop wants to portray itself to the game buying public? Is casual sexism the next thing I can expect from my local GameStop? Or racism? How far down this path is GameStop willing to travel?
Your customers are not, at present, all 13 year-old boys. If this attitude continues to be flaunted at your storefronts, however, it’s hard to imagine that anybody else is going to want to shop there.
Because of the store’s atmosphere I choose not to buy several games and accessories.
I would appreciate a response, both to the situation and to my letter. I have posted this letter online here and would be happy to post whatever response you feel is appropriate alongside the letter.
Thank you.
UPDATE: The responses:
I recently received some communication from my corporate office that you had an unacceptable shopping experience in one of my stores. I want to assure you that I take these kinds of situation extremely seriously. I was hoping you would be willing to give me a call at your convenience to discuss this matter. The easiest time to get a hold of me will be on Monday, but you can call me any time that is convenient to you. If you miss me just leave a message and I will call you back.
Thank you for your concern and I assure we will be looking into this situation with great energy.
—– ——-
District Manager
DC Southeast, D59
Cell: — — —-
and
I am writing in response to your email below regarding your recent visit and unfortunate experience at our Fashion Center Mall GameStop store.This must have been very disturbing and frustrating.
On behalf of GameStop let me start by offering my sincere apologies for the manner in which you were treated and for the poor quality of customer service we provided. Rest assured this is not the quality of interaction we strive for at GameStop. We work and train diligently to ensure every visit to one of our stores is a fun, informative and enjoyable experience. Our employees are expected to treat every customer with personalized service, in a professional and courteous manner.
We at GameStop wish to assure you we take customer service matters very seriously. We value your business and want you to feel comfortable shopping with us in the future. Rest assured we will take appropriate measures to ensure this will not happen again.
You will receive a follow-up email once our investigation is complete. If you prefer to be contacted directly by phone please provide your contact information and we will be happy to call you.
Thank you for taking the time to write to us and we would like to again offer our sincere apologies for this unfortunate incident.
Sincerely,
Steve Morgan
President
September 14th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Thats kinda funny but not at the same time. I enjoy walking into places where everyone is cussing and start cussing with them. But when it comes to children walking in those stores and hearing that…Yikes
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I think you are gay so u got offended.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Thats pretty common today. Don’t take offense to it, its just todays culture. Unless you yourself are gay, which it sounds like. If thats the case, I’m sorry and I feel bad for you that god made you gay.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Regardless of his sexual orientation he has a right to be upset. The lack of customer service was the real problem. I am 100% fine with a relaxed work environment as long as customers are taken care of.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
The assertion that one has to be gay in order to be displeased by homophobia is faulty.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I appreciated your informative and to-scale diagram of your position in relation to the “inaccessible Wiis”.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Did you bring this to the attention of the management at the time of purchase?
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Troeltsch:
I did not bring this to the attention of the management at the time of purchase. But, realistically, if there was a manager at the store, he was one of the seven employees in the room with me. If he didn’t see why it was problematic, then it wasn’t going to be a good environment to attempt to explain it to him in.
I’ve actually gotten some responses to my email from the company (none from Consumerist, which I’m surprised by… I thought they’d be all over this). I’ll post the corporate responses tonight or tomorrow.
Jeff:
It’s hard to explain the situation without that diagram. Also, it’s actually pretty close to scale. I mean, aside from people not being shaped like circles from above, it’s fairly accurate.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I understand that it’s intimidating to make this complaint in person, with the offender in the room at the time, but if you don’t they can deny the situation ever happened. Plus if the manager gave you a hard time that would be a GREAT story and would almost certianly get on consumerist.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
If you haven’t realized by now, this is America. The moment you or your child step outside of your home, you’re subject to strong language, any logical man would tell you this. So hearing language like that shouldn’t shock you, at all. Being in GameStop is the same as being in the mall itself. Last time I checked, GameStop is a video game retail store, it’s not a toy or children’s store meaning they don’t cater to only children. What’s next, are you going to file a complaint to the mall management if you happen to ease drop on the mall security’s conversation and hear strong language? Just as you ease dropped on the conversation of the employees there? The way you complain make it sound as if the employees where yelling at the top of their lungs. If you expect me to believe that well then thanks for the laugh, I needed it. Needless to say, I find this entire article full of lulz as the on complaining really doesn’t realize or understand the community he’s living in.
PS: Next time, try the words “Excuse me?” when trying to get attention. It works more wonders than just standing there dumbfounded like a dog.
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Lolz you is gay
[.]
September 14th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
ah, RD, you’re a classic muckraker. i love it!
wait, who are these idiots reading your blog? hey, idiots. you’re wicked dumb.
i also like the assumption that you must be gay in order to be annoyed by idiots making homophobic comments. i guess if i walk into a dunkin’ donuts and the counter guys call the chocolate crullers “nigger sticks,” i shouldn’t be offended.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hey smart one, here’s a fun fact:
Calling a gay man a homo is the equivalent to calling an African American black.
Calling a gay man a fag is the equivalent to calling an African American a nigger.
It’s hilarious how every term used to refer to a gay human being is offensive to you people.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 11:02 am
By the way Anonymous, the issue isn’t about harsh language, it’s about homophobia and bigotry. The fact that you’re unaware that you’re a bigot, in the same way that the store’s employees are (possibly) unaware that they are bigots, is the issue.
Also, who are “you people”?
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
… To be quite frank your whole rant is rather pathetic. Now if there were children present then of course they should have dialed there conversation down or at least been a little more quiet but I have had the oppurtunity to work with kids who could swear me and ten sailors under a table. Not an excuse but your being melodramatic on that sir. Secondly, The reason why you remained involved in the situation is for lack of a better fitting word, stupid. You mean to tell me, you, a grown man don’t have the balls to say either, excuse me(thank you previous commenter cause that would have ended the whole thing quickly), or “hey, thats kinda inappropriate for a store children MIGHT be walking into don’t you think guys?” And as for the homophobia… thats not homophobia, for me to say I hate fuckin fags and all the gays stand for. That is homophobia. To say jokingly “how am I gay for running over a guy I know in a dream” thats clearly a comical atmosphere and your being what I like to professionally call a bitch right now. I will pray your social ineptitude is not a permenant condition and that you get a backbone.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Who said I was unaware? No one.
No one in America, or on this planet for that matter, is pure. So your attempt to sound completely innocent in itself is laughable. Everyone in America holds some sort of prejudice whether they are aware of it or not. It might not be of a huge scale as it was in the past, but it’s still there and it will never go away because it’s in our, America’s, history. It would do you good to just accept it and move on. Bigotry is illogical and ridiculous, thus laughable and the reason why I never get offended when it comes from others.
What’s even funnier is that you’re doing exactly what bigots do. Judging and labeling people you truly know nothing of or about. The double standards of humanity is indeed hilarious.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I personally would have been a lot more annoyed by the bad customer service than the language, but it’s worth noting that calling your co-worker a fag would get you in major trouble at most office jobs.
“For the CHILDREN!!1!” provides a smokescreen for the morality police way too often.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Anonymous, if you want to accept people throwing around homophobic slurs in business settings, then ok. I’m curious if there’s any slurs you think would be inappropriate? Would slurs against women be acceptable? Hispanics? Black people? Where would you draw the line?
I have no moral concerns about being against people using slurs, especially in a business setting, regardless of how common it may be. I have a hard time seeing how you think I’m on the wrong side of this issue.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Your in the wrong because you lack the tescicular fortitude to voice yourself in a socially appropriate manner. Instead of saying, “excuse me, Im looking for such and such can you help me” or even “Hey, that really isn’t appropriate for the clientel you have here gentlemen” You deem it wise to rant on the internet and email executives of an international company because you have the social gracess of a brick. I have actually had the occasion to visit the Gamestop that you are talking about and whatever you did to get ignored there points only to your own cowardess and inability to step forward and address the workers.
As to the question of where to draw the line on the subject of the comments. A) point blank why the hell were you standing there for five minutes in someone elses conversaiton, that and the fact that you even began this shows that you really have nothing better to do with your life and are clearly displacing the fault for your lack of social awareness on others, and B) The comments, from your own discription, were clearly made in jest. Are you really that narrow minded and petty as to try to ruin someones means of financial stability because you dislike jokes made in confidence of friends and co-workers? The fact of the matter is we live in a world where even if we are homophobic the population in our country and in the dc-metro area especially, is so diverse that you would be hard pressed to hold homophobic, or racist for that matter, ideals in seriosness and they all probally have friend or at least know of gay people in there communities. If they were really that offended by it it wouldn’t be a joking matter to them but you escalated there words in your own mind to fit your own cause because you weren’t served fast enough (which is in no little part your own fault)… I’d call you a lame, social parasite, but I am quite sure you’d try to shut down this website for fascilitating such a slander, so have fun with that.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
You’re welcome to call me all the names that you’d like.
[.]
September 15th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
And if you’re of the opinion that using homophobic (or racial, or ethnic, or gender) slurs in the workplace in jest is appropriate, then we’re simply going to be on different sides of the issue.
[.]
September 16th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Actually, from the diagram, it looks to me like the cash registers were pretty accessible. You could have just walked around the counter and waited on yourself. Thus, it is clear that this is all your fault.
Also, from urbandictionary.com: Homo – A derogatory term usually used by heterosexual men against other heterosexual men. ex. “Piss off you fucking homo.” It’s also a noun, which I’m sure will interest the avid grammarians who have been posting.
[.]
September 17th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
here’s a rule: if i say it, it’s funny. if YOU (e.g. “anonymous”) say it, it’s bigotry.
i like to live by that.
btw, i’ve always found it fascinating that seemingly 78% of internet content consists of anonymous trollers defending bigotry (most notably homophobia, but also flat-out racism). am i the only one who’s noticed this?
[.]
September 18th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I have noticed that. I also find it funny how those 78% of the “trollers” that “defend bigotry” put up better arguments than the ones “against” it, this being a prime example. This is why I love the internet.
[.]
September 18th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I, at least, haven’t really put up any argument for why we should be against bigotry. I simply said that I don’t like it, and I let the store’s owners know that it was going on. If GameStop doesn’t have a problem with it, that’s going to be the end of the line.
If you want to have a lengthy discussion of what’s wrong with bigotry (and I’d be curious to hear what you think is good about bigotry), maybe that’s a topic that we can move into.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am
But are you forgetting what someone already posted above?
How can you truly say they are bigots? Just because you over hear a comedic conversation between friends? So I see you’re the type to be quick to judge? If that’s the cast then I’m surprised you aren’t a racist yourself.
So I guess you’re saying every person on the planet that says or laughs at a mild racial joke is an actual racist?
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 8:41 am
I would say that pretty much anybody who casually uses a racial slur in its derogatory sense in a crowded public space is racist, yes.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
It’s true. I’m very compelled by arguments that use personal attacks to explain why other personal attacks are funny. Especially when the spelling and grammar are so immaculate!
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Anyone who is quick to pass judgment on someone when not knowing them personally is a bigot. Meaning, the one who wrote this letter is no better than the so called “bigots” he ran into at Game Stop. =/
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
If that were true, at least I’d be a bigot who knows enough not to repeatedly call someone else a “fag” and a “homo” when I was working in a very public store.
Once again, I fail to see how a general standard of not using slurs (in their derogatory sense) in public places is a problem.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
So what? You’re still a bigot. =/
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
This feels like a prime opportunity for an “I know you are, but what I am” retort.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
well, the bottom line is that a sadly sizable portion of the population think there’s nothing wrong with a bunch of nerds who work in a mall video game store liberally using the word “fag” within earshot of customers.
whereas, that same sizable portion would probably object if those guys were using the word “nigger” within earshot of customers.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
This is why America is a hilarious country. It’s full of morons who can’t keep to one idea. You’re a perfect example. If you’re alright with calling someone a nerd for working in a game store, then you should also be alright with people calling white people “crackers”, or black people “niggers”. If not, then that just makes you another American idiot lol.
[.]
September 19th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Talk about fighting fire with fire (no homosexual puns intended). Seriously, both Door Frame and jbg. are honsetly going to sit here and preach about how calling someone a homo is no better than calling someone a nigger. Then, jbg. goes on to say that people who work at gamestop are nerds? How the hell do you support your own cause by discriminating against people who work in gamestop??? That’s like saying all black people like fried chicken. You sir, are blatently a racist. I’m going to email the admins of this site because I am greatly offended by what you just said!
How ridiculous does that sound??? Basically, it’s what this whole article is about, or at least what you’ve made it out to be. The only argument you have, from the looks of it, is poor customer service. I’m just curious to know how you’re so sure that all those people illustrated in your little MS Paint diagram, were in fact, gamestop employees. I’m willing to bet that you really don’t know, you just said that they were because it would give you more sympathy. The 4 man wall of homophobic gamestop employees were blocking you from your precious, yet “inaccessable” wii (check spelling). And you failed to take action at that moment?? Why didn’t you speak to a manager. What did you think he or she would say? “Shut up, fag”?? If that had been the case, at least you would have a somewhat more respecatble argument.
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I spelled inaccessible wrong! That’s the best point you’ve made this entire argument.
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Or the only point you want to acknowledge. He has a point about you not bothering to get the manager on duty.
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am
And the fact that you’re assuming that every person in the store was an employee. I highly doubt that Gamestop would have “6 or 7″ people on the clock on a weeknight. I have yet to walk into a gamestop and see more than 2 people working there. Who knows, maybe the ones using the homophobic terms weren’t even employees. You assumed they were, which I think is a very good point that I made, that you also neglected to overlook. Maybe you decided to email the president of a major corporation over a customer’s own foul language. Wow, how foolish would you feel if that was the case? You wasted the time of countless higher ups in gamestop over something that could have been resolved at that point in time.
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 3:13 am
DoorFrame, are you the same Brian who did that YouTube video of the Comcast technician falling asleep during a work order? That was hilarious!
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I was at this store this last week…and I am sorry to hear of your challenges there. Last week’s visit was not so bad…except that I waited ages to buy the Halo 3 console I was buying for my son. I am afraid I would not have been so patient …and would have voiced my opinion ..in a mature and objective way…that that simply is not necessary…I agree totally with you…in a public place..retail establishment…there still requires some level of professionalism…and this does not meet the mark. I think you did right about flagging this…and some of the idiots that responded to your comments…like it was your problem…not the stores sort of disgusts me to be completely honest…I think I am pretty easy going but apathy, bad language…just plain rudeness is something no customer should have to endure….keep that in their own sad lives!!
[.]
September 20th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
wait, dudes that work in video game stores AREN’T nerds? i’m so behind on the times!
oops, i’m late to go fuck a dude!
[.]
September 30th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
That was the best complaint I’ve ever seen. I love the diagram – hah! classic! You are my new hero.All these little comments preaching how “the real world is” to you– let me just say something here:
The ‘real world’ is where you get PAID to talk to and treat strangers/customers with respect and run a professional environment– i don’t care if it’s a toy store or a backwoods bait and tackle shop. If any of my employees conducted themselves that way, they’d be out the door without warning..it’s inexcusable..that IS their job. Blow that up to SIX employees doing a two employee job and still providing this customer with the scenerio–it’s time to do some serious housekeeping.
It’s brilliant the way you directed them to your entry– I’ve only pondered doing such things and wound up blown off by any result from a company I’ve had a complaint with. I am saving this entry for personal reference, so thank you.
I was just looking up my local gamestop due to the snotty girl’s logic that an out of state driver’s license isn’t valid because they do things differently in my state– meaning, if you have a clean driving record and are over 25, you’re allowed to renew through the mail and the state issues a four year license via placing a sticker on the license– a poor effort on trying to reward safety with the convenience of not having to deal with the DMV, to be hassled every time you charge a purchase.
I try to reason and explain why my state’s licenses looked as they do, just to get cut off with a “well that’s not how it works in this state, bub”, as if I was at a state facility and not actually at a Game Stop retail chain. We have those at every corner where I’m from, here– this was the only one in town.
[.]
October 4th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
You are a much more patient person than me. I would have asked for the manager immediately and then left the store, never to go there again. Then again, that’s just me. Those “boys” were rude and disrespectful. I doubt if GameStop does any real type of follow-up. Although, I was surprised by the number of employees in the store. The ones I’ve been to near my house have usually between 1-3, tops.
[.]
November 27th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Just glancing through this is a bit disturbing. I don’t endorse hurtful language, classless people etc in general, in public or private. To have store employees having such conversations and now to see so many endorsing it- the world moves forward slowly. Agree, in private conversations say what the heck you want- but to discuss how fat people are disgusting, make racial epithets, homophobic remarks etc in general in a toy stoy as an employee, is not in my book even remotely “ok”. Every one of us has some feature or characteristic that some group would take shots at.
I have had similar poor service in that store. Not the type discussed here but the general lack of being able to get anyone to even remotely act like they care that you are a customer. The employees are having a party – they might talk with you if you engage them over some game they themselves are interested in, otherwise, they have no intent to pretend they are there to help, perform a job hired to do etc. So many other stores out there- just avoid this one.
[.]
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 am
Wow dude. do you take everything so seriously? like it’s a new day and age bro have you not seen the movie super bad? everother word being a swear word it’s how we all talk now. Words don’t really mean that much anymore. u call ur friend a fag or a homo just for showing up late, ur not really saying he’s into (men) ur just usually the word in another context. Fuck & shit & w/e are all common use words now even in the classrooms, your gonna have to learn to grow up and accept the fact no matter where you go these words are gonna be used in casual conversations and just in day to day life.
[.]
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
I have to learn to grow up?
[.]
March 28th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
wow dude, like yeah bro.. this is the really real world. Degeneration is the wave of the future, brah. i.e. what he said…. but no… not really.
These button jockeys should be fired on the spot, and Gamestop should’ve taken this seriously, especially seeing that I found this post very easily when I googled it last fall. These are customer service employees getting paid for that, not your idiot future frat boy of america club BFF’s who are going to cry along with you if you don’t go to the same party college.
[.]
June 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
i recently went to gamestop on 28th in kentwood michigan recieved really poor service same type of scene minus the homo talk but just talking no service when i get service its rude service
[.]
October 6th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I know this was posted over a year ago, but I wanted to add my two cents anyway.
I found this by googling “fuck gamestop,” and I found some people’s responses fairly appalling.
Some people are assholes.
And some of these assholes are gifted with enough brain power to realize something that’s apparent to most intelligent people – and they’ve decided to use this realization for evil, because they get off on it:
You can argue anything. I could argue right now that eating babies is GOOD, I could do it with a straight face, and I could appear to “win.”
These poor, insecure souls have traded their integrity and general decency for the ability to forge what APPEAR to be rational arguments in defense of abominable behavior, only to fool the less intelligent and make themselves feel superior in the process.
I could do the same thing.
You know why I don’t?
I’m not an asshole.
My reasoning ability has not been made so porous by a lack of self worth that I can convince myself that there is any merit in “winning” an argument where winning means solidifying an untruth in the minds of others or my own.
You must know the difference between a word like “shit” and a word like “fag” or “nigger”. Even if you cannot (or are disinclined) to find a way to articulate the difference intellectually, you know it intuitively.
You must also know that if someone tries to run you down in their car and they succeed, it is their fault for running you down. It is not your fault for not moving out of the way fast enough. Having a way to attempt to prevent or later rectify the actions of a perpetrator does nothing to justify their actions, nor does it make it your responsibility to.
DoorFrame, I think it’s great you complained about this. You certainly had the right, and you actually did the company a favor by alerting them to their employee’s behavior. You’re not the only source of income they’ve driven away from that location, I’m sure.
So to hell with these detractors, these assholes as I’ve aptly labeled them. Maybe they want to live in a world where it is considered a greater sin to address a wrong of any size than it is to perpetrate one.
That world will die, and I will fiddle while it burns.
All you assholes know better. Somewhere…I hope.
[.]
July 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
stop being a faggot
[.]
July 16th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
‘Idislikeassholes’ is one of the few people out there (voicing public observations) who can see through the use and misuse of logic being pantomimed by ‘Anonymouse’ and so many other twenty somethings.
So many people eat that shit up, just for the sake of word placement, length, but mostly attitude covered in a smokescreen and array of mirrors set up ever so carefully so that it maintains it’s course within the bounds of logic. Well, surely you can’t argue with logic, but actually, of course you can. It just takes twice as long to show people because you have to set up your own bullshit smokescreen and logistical mirror array to expose it for what it is.
Logic, like any power, can be used or misused…depending on the hands it is in. I have had more than my fair share of having to deal with ‘Anonymous’s “testicular fortitude” (hold for applause…..) for a living it’s not too hard to see through the bullshit.
His angry anti-blog blog is out there somewhere, cultivating his mindset. Rest assured people are falling for his self identified intellectual badass spew on a daily basis. Not enough people have called him on it.
[.]
July 16th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Related:
If you found this Gamestop experience post troubling…avoid Fry’s Electronics stores at all costs. It’s this experience, but with enough floor space to cover a Walmart Supercenter, plus airport-grade security checkpoints.
[.]
February 11th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the Gamestops out here in Vegas discriminate against straight people, hiring all gays and forcing their straight employees to quit… in fact, we are going through a situation right now where my husband (straight) who has been in retail for 5+ years, and with Gamestop Inc for almost 4 years is being denied an INTERVIEW for a higher position, and instead the interview was given to a lesbian employee who has never worked a retail position and has been with Gamestop Inc for less than 4 months… So trust me, its not just bad customer service, its the employees being screwed by the real “homos”… (p.s. I myself am a bisexual female and am EXTREMELY offended that someone would receive a promotion on the basis of her being a lesbian). I guess that’s just the way this company works.
[.]
February 18th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
When I hear someone say fag, homo, or gay in a derogatory sense, it just makes them sound ignorant to me. Everyone in the dominate group, lets say whites or straights are racists or hetero-sexist, and this is of no fault of their own, it is because we are born into a society that has underlying mindsets about what it means to be gay or a different race. The important thing we have to realize is that we benefit white privilege and straight privilege from it on a day to day basis and we should make a conscious effort to go against these mindsets.
I know that it hurts some people when they hear the word fag or nigger so I don’t say it, its only by the process of advancement that the word “nigger” is taboo now and that one day hopefully, “gay” in a derogatory sense will be just as much.
It’s a shame that in today’s world people are hired and fired from their jobs because of age, race, creed, sexual orientation etc. But in this case, shoe is just on the other foot. Since the founding of this country, people have been fired for being queer. I don’t think anyone deserves it, but I believe we are not justified in complaining.
[.]