I have been friend with a gay guy since 7 years now, I make fun of him everytime I can and he does the same with me.
Just man up, you can't pretend people to never joke around on the internet because some random dude might get his feelings hurt.
I have enough problems with these two paragraphs that I'm gonna number them.
1. These two situations are way to different to compare. When talking with a friend intention matters and can be deciphered; while online even if the intention matters (which I don't think it does in this case) it cannot be deciphered in the same way as with a friend.
2. This seems a lot like you are trying to justify your own behavior with the "I have a gay friend" argument. But you don't justify something unless you have done something wrong.
3. "Just man up." It's language like this that causes the current American man to have problems expressing emotion. The "man up" economy has to stop so we can have a serious discussion without trying to put someone down on the grounds of masculinity.
4. "you can't pretend people to never joke around on the internet because some random dude might get his feelings hurt." while this sentence is ugly I think i get what you were trying to type. And my argument here remains the same; joking or not this is not okay. Look at my Middle School example for why this can be harmful. It's not some random dude, this is an entire group of people who have been subject to harms in real life for just being who they are. That's fucked up.
5. You are the person who warned not to do this "because of mods." And that is entirely backwards, you shouldn't refrain saying you hate [ban incoming] on the internet because of fear of punishment but instead shouldn't say ANYTHING like that because its the wrong thing to do.
