Cards Against Humanity apologises for "transphobic" card - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8UauVL5.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]A row over one of the phrases in the game Cards Against Humanity has ended with both sides involved apologising. It started when 19-year-old called Jonah, who describes himself as transguy, burnt a card which referred to "passable transvestites". He posted the images on his Tumblr account, along with the caption "death to transphobia". "A lot of my friends are LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender], emphasis on the T," he told Fusion. "Somebody played that card, and somebody else was like, 'That's not okay.' I decided I didn't want it in my deck." One of the creators of the game, Max Temkin apologised on his Tumblr account, saying: "I regret writing this card, it was a mean, cheap joke. We took it out of the game a while ago." Jonah has since said he should not have set fire to the card.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27993500[/URL]

But they have much worse cards in the deck. Why is this card so harmful in particular?

I thought the point of cards against humanity was to be as offensive as possible, I haven't played it myself, but that's my general understanding of it.

[quote]He posted the images on his Tumblr account, along with the caption "death to transphobia".[/quote] The moment I saw the title I instantly thought of Tumblr and guess fuckin' what, it was :v:

Isn't the point of the game to be offensive? no one should have apologized.

[QUOTE=Scot;45199427]"I regret writing this card, it was a mean, cheap joke. We took it out of the game a while ago."[/QUOTE] Luckily with the blank cards you can just put it right the fuck back in.

[QUOTE=The mouse;45199432]But they have much worse cards in the deck. Why is this card so harmful in particular?[/QUOTE] It isn't, this guy just assumed someone would care about his hurt feelings.

Waah the game pokes fun at everything but im offended because it poked fun at me!

Oh fucking hell, fuck you Jonah.

[QUOTE=The mouse;45199432]But they have much worse cards in the deck. Why is this card so harmful in particular?[/QUOTE] Well this one is more of a direct attack on a large group of people. That and it seems this guy was the only one to take notable action regarding it which prompted a response from the developers who had this existing feeling of regret over it in the first place. And Besides, when me and my mates play C.A.H this card is usually the card you throw down because you can't actually find anything funny to go with it so you hope to get points on the randomness factor.

Bu-but its only fun when it's offensive to other people

It's okay to make an offensive game as long as you don't make fun of issues the first world white people who buy the game have to deal with

[QUOTE=thisguy123;45199456]Well this one is more of a direct attack on a large group of people.[/QUOTE] "the jews" or "black people" aren't??

[QUOTE=Disseminate;45199472]"the jews" or "black people" aren't??[/QUOTE] To be fair those cards aren't offensive by themselves.

i remember seeing this post on my dash. tumblr has a cesspool of people who overreact to everything and want the whole world to be completely PC except for them.

But being able to match "In 1000 years, when paper money is but a distant memory, _BLANK_ will be our currency" with "African children" is way worse and there's far more others that are extremely offensive, not because the game itself is offensive but because the point of the game is to make out the best card you possible can with your deck and making an offensive joke in between friends and never to be heard anywhere else isn't really a problem. Silly exaggeration, it's like raging in video games.

[QUOTE=Scot;45199427]"Somebody played that card, and somebody else was like, 'That's not okay.' I decided I didn't want it in my deck."[/QUOTE] Why the fuck did they buy the game then? This game is designed to get people like this out of your house.

how is this transphobic

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It's a joke. I don't know why people are suddenly getting so touchy over this bullshit. Honestly yes I'm against all this phobia bullshit but the creators of the game made it with the intention of it being a joke and if you can't take potentially offensive humour than don't play the fucking game

I thought that transvestite was different to transgender

[QUOTE=thisguy123;45199456]Well this one is more of a direct attack on a large group of people. [/QUOTE] There is a card in the British version that directly attacks a celebrity that died of cancer... This isn't a direct attack. I can see why this MIGHT be offensive to some, but say if you saw some massive body builder in a wig and said "he could probably pass as a transvestite" is that offensive? Or are people just taking offense to things that some what mention something to do with them. Edit: Wait, it's tumblr, ignore me.

What the fuck is a transguy?

-Automerge fail-

i also distinctly remember commenting on that post because the card expressly states "transvestites". not transgender. transvestite. y'know, transvestite being someone who just likes to wear the clothes of the opposite gender and transgender wanting to [I]be[/I] the opposite gender?? or i guess wanting to be whatever gender they fucking want because of all this genderfluid fucking whatever stuff that they tend to go on about and somehow that's categorised under LGBT? ?? [editline]24th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Complifused;45199533]What the fuck is a transguy?[/QUOTE] almost certain it's a FtM transgender person.

snip because I interrupted the circle jerk and killed your boners

[QUOTE]"I was only looking at the issues which affected me personally, and I was allowing myself to find everything else funny because I wasn't the person to whom it's directed," he said. "I truly regret making this post, not because I've gotten a bit of shit for it but because I am appalled at myself that I didn't see what I was doing."[/QUOTE] Well, this is nice of Jonah.

Being a transvestite and being transsexual aren't equivalent because they share the suffix trans are they Transfats ban is transphobic, transformers is transphobic [B]Edit:[/B] Didn't realise crossdressing was covered under the transgender umbrella, my bad educating myself more on the subject now (also revising english)

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;45199556]Notice there aren't any 9/11 or Columbine cards.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure there is a columbine card actually.

"I was only looking at the issues which affected me personally, and I was allowing myself to find everything else funny because I wasn't the person to whom it's directed," he said. Well that isn't hypocritical. [editline]24th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=usaokay;45199505]Jonah is now banned from playing Cards Against Humanity.[/QUOTE] I assume this is a joke but not to sure, is it?