I thought the way these things were handled in the Mass Effect series was good. You really do have to go looking for these sorts of things, they don't force it on you in any way.
It's like paying cover at a strip club, going to the back room, and being offended by nudity.
This isn't a case of not reading the box. It's a case of getting your pitchfork because you heard a rumor.
> It's a case of getting your pitchfork because you heard a rumor.
Completely disagree, it's a case of using an argument that isn't exactly what you think because you think it will serve your agenda better. The people complaining here want to get rid of gay content, they don't want themselves to be warned about it - just happens that saying the latter makes them sound more reasonable (well: slightly less unreasonable).
Of course, the overall homophobia thing is roughly speaking a case of pitchfork/rumour, people who become bigots through hearing that they ought to be, not any logic at all.
No matter how clearly labeled, common-sense, or standard practice something is, people will always find a way to rationalize not knowing or push their dislike of it on to someone else, usually an undeserving person. It is a simple lack of personal accountability, and happens everywhere.
I worked for years at a bar, the number of people who tried get more scotch put in the glass when they ordered it neat (no ice), because it didn't look as full as their friend's on-the-rocks was astonishing (poured via shot glass, simple displacement effects here). These were ph.d level people who should know better. Of course the on-the-rocks people tended to complain about it tasting "watered down"... sigh.
Anyway, there is a highly amusing website: http://notalwaysright.com/ that will probably provide insight into this phenomenon. I believe most of those stories have happened, having witnessed most of the scenarios (albeit with my own customers...)
Point being, excusing people for not noticing the big rating that is on the front of the box is probably the wrong answer, at some point we have to accept that someone needs to be responsible. Otherwise, we just keep passing the buck, I mean how long until we can just claim "oh I didn't understand the rules for labeling, it is obviously too much to expect me to read all those rules, we need a better rule system from $oversight_org", and then the org says, "oversight is too hard, how were we supposed to know that those naked people actually meant nudity"... and on and on
It's like paying cover at a strip club, going to the back room, and being offended by nudity.
This isn't a case of not reading the box. It's a case of getting your pitchfork because you heard a rumor.