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Tuesday, January 3, 2006

You Can’t Call Me a Fag Until Your Voice Breaks

Posted by on January 3 at 15:31 PM

The current media darling of Major League Gaming (yes, a professional video game league exists) is 7-year-old prodigy “Lil Poison,” who just took second in Halo 2 at a tournament in Chicago.

This is troubling, and not just because of how irresponsible it is to let a 7-year-old play Halo 2. As anyone who has spent time on XBox Live can attest, getting called “fag” by twits with balls that have only recently dropped is par for the course. Now we’ll have to hear it from toddlers as well?