Why do people hate elves?

[Shaithias]

Elves, first and foremost are not human, and if you make slurs about how they are gay and wimpy, consider that the first is banned on steam and the second is a question of courage, and unicorn riders are very courageous when they teleport deep into enemy lines to take them from behind. No pun intended, if you were going to be teleporting on a magical horse with a horn into enemy territory with nothing more than a sword, you would be scared too.

Now that being said, there have been alot of threads on the forums bashing elves and saying anything that kills them is better for the game. This is not only sad, but pointless racial hatred has led to many horrible things in the past in the real world, and I know a bunch of people will say this is just a game hur hur, the point is this: hating on a race because of the percieved traits of that race- dumb, cowardly, miserly, plotting etc stems from a mindset that all members of a race are the same, and that all players of a race play it the same way.

Now, its good and fine if all races were roundly criticized or praised but to single the elves out for criticism is rather sad. They are not very strong, but make up for it with tactical speed and range, compared to say orcs. They are also weak to poison but magically resistant. Other than that they are pretty much balanced. Unlike dwarves who have inherent poison resistance and +1 def and +1 res and cave climbing and like underground....and not a weakness in sight. But then again I play both.

[frozencanadian]

http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/1uzeo2/why_does_everyone_hate_elves/

-Urist Frozen McBookkeeper

[Dic Tator]

This is just a game hur hur.

On a serious note, are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious? Did you really compare hating a fantasy race (often portrayed as tall, holier-than-thou treehugging hippies) to actul racial hatred and genocide? Well, I sure hope you ride out to defend the innocent orcs of Mordor too.

[BBB]

Them Orcs were oppressed for generations, Sauron was just trying to get them a fairer deal.

[GhengisFarb]

As far as hating on Elves, they DID try to genocide the Human race.....

However, like cockroaches, we still survived.

[BBB]

Well the Dark Elves tried the genocide, but considering Humans were put on Athla to supplant Elves and be a breeding ground for Archons (an arrangement that had gone on for several thousands of years on several worlds apparently, i.e. Elves rejuventate worlds, then were supposed to leave them to the Humans and go to the next world, but one which Inioch felt disinclined to acquiesce to), I'm not entirely surpised at their reaction!

[Dic Tator]

Plus the elves, at least in AoWIII, practice eugenics (only those capable in battle are allowed to breed). That's usually a pretty dickish move and alone a ground for hating them.

[MattStriker]

Originally posted by Shaithias:

*snip rant*

This. This right here, that's why people dislike elves.

[Noble Ten]

Is he really being serious? Coming to the internet to rant about it ?

Everyone knows they're tree huggering hippies. Ever played Grotesque Tactics. PETA!

[Rhudda]

Ever since Tolkien, elves have been portrayed as being better than anyone else. That just gets on people's nerves.

[Dic Tator]

Lets be fair, most hippie treehuggers do think they're better than anyone else.

[John From Marketing]

Originally posted by Shaithias:

Elves, first and foremost are not human, and if you make slurs about how they are gay and wimpy, consider that the first is banned on steam and the second is a question of courage, and unicorn riders are very courageous when they teleport deep into enemy lines to take them from behind. No pun intended, if you were going to be teleporting on a magical horse with a horn into enemy territory with nothing more than a sword, you would be scared too.

Sounds like one of them Elven sympathisers, you know what we do to Elven sympathisers? Boys... BURN HIM!

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Shaithias:

. . . deep into enemy lines to take them from behind.

. . .if you were going to be teleporting on a magical horse with a horn into enemy territory with nothing more than a sword, you would be scared too.

How is that not gay?

Look, just accept the fact that elves are gay. And not manly gay like Glen Hughes' character or a construction worker looking for some rough trade. But the effiminate, 'that chick's got a hot arse - wait its a dude!' gay. Always out 'camping' in the forest, like they're living their own personal 'Brokeback Mountain'. Always going on with their superior knowledge of arts and culture like some catty nightclub owner in South Beach. Damn elves, always moving into neighborhoods and raising property values with their immaculately groomed lawns and yappy little rat-dogs. We had one elf move in down the street and a year later there were two 'fusion-cuisine' restaurants, another doing persian cuisine, and one chinese place 'that does really good takeout'.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by BBB:

Them Orcs were oppressed for generations, Sauron was just trying to get them a fairer deal.

Orcs *are* elves. They're just the manly ones.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Shaithias:

a magical horse with a horn into enemy territory with nothing more than a sword, you would be scared too.

You knw, this got me to thinking, maybe they're not gay. Maybe they're transgender. They like horse like girls, and are obsessed with horns and swords. Maybe they're women trapped in men's bodies.


But then I rememered that they're *elves*. They're all *already* in women's bodies.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Shaithias:

hating on a race because of the percieved traits of that race- dumb, cowardly, miserly, plotting etc stems from a mindset that all members of a race are the same

Yah you're not the first to notice a distinct resemblance between Tolkienesque races and Earth races. Many college papers have explored:

Elves = Nordic/Celtic races?
Orcs = African races?
Goblins = Asian races?
Trolls = Slavic?
Dwarves = Pictish?
Hobbits = British Isles
etc.

Google "Tolkien r...." and it auto-fills in "Tolkien racist" as the top suggestion.