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Why unpremeditated homophobia can be a serious problem, and pondering what the way forward might be for gaming sites and communities.
So, while chatting to some friends the other day, a rather engaging article was linked in my direction. It concerns, of all things, the actions of a British soccer set, which had recently sacked one of its players for a homophobic Tweet . Neat. But...
Why is this even related?
I was talking to them – lamenting, more accurately – about the state of the online gaming community, and what appears to be a rather set feeling that sexism, racism, and homophobia is A-okay, and that if you’re offended by being called a fag it’s ‘perfectly your fault’. My lamentations were due to the increasing feeling that even in our own Atomic community, there’s a rank of similar behaviour that is considered the norm, and that's at times incredibly deleterious. That I’d gone home and played some BF3 to relax, and managed to good break onto a server full of people defending homophobic slurs... well, that didn’t keep from either.
Source: Atomic