thistlechaser | The DKs-with-erections/RL religious anti-gay people connection! (WoW)

Okay, I think I figured it out. For a long time, it's been pissing me off that people ~~care~~ argue about if a DK can get an erection. (DK = death knight, for non-WoW folks -- dead people brought back to life to fight.) We're working in a world of magic here. A world where people can turn into wolves/cats/birds/bears/fictional animals. We're talking about a place where dead people can be brought back to life. Why in the world would you accept that it's possible for someone to be brought back to life, but the idea that somehow, for some reason, the penis might still work is just way too much for you to buy?

Then it hit me. It's like the near-weekly stories of anti-gay folks being later caught with some young man (or worse). Like this week's Anti-gay pastor arrested for public masturbation while watching young children.

The anti-DK-penis-working group are as rabid, spew as much vitriol, as those in-the-closet anti-gay folks. There's a lot of anti-ERP (cyber, TS, RPing sex) people out there too, I bet a lot of them fall into this category as well.

It's not that I'm pro- or anti- dead things having sex, it's that it's bad RP to say "it shouldn't work for anyone!". If you feel that it shouldn't work on your DK, so be it. If you feel it should, knock yourself out. Not every DK is the same! Some have more flaws than others, some have more strength, some have no ability to speak, some have no memories of being alive. If we're willing to accept all the other differences, why is there so much flailing over a penis working or not?

(Yes, I know that in the real world it takes blood and a pumping heart to get it up, but in the real world dead things do not walk among us either.)

...man, I can't believe I wrote a whole post about the penises of dead things.

Edit: In unrelated news: A Dance With Dragons will be in bookstores on TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011! EEEEEEEE! Source.