Breaking News: Many gamers are anti-LGBTQ (Eurogamer Logo)
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Bro
I'm not trying to replace gamer.... Gamer stays for the people who playing video games is an identity (including the significant toxic portion) fan of games is no different than fan of movies, fan of tv shows, fan of comics, etc...
I'm not the one being weirdly disingenuous
I understand. I'm fine with you disagreeing with my point of view that giving up on "gamer" as a term is not the solution, as long as it's clear I don't mean "gamers" don't have a huge bigotry problem, either. To me the two go hand in hand (giving up on the term feels like the "easy" solution that excuses us from having to clean up house), but I also understand someone constantly hurt by this bigotry and exhausted from a fight they don't have a choice not to fight would have a very different and more practical viewpoint.
In the end this is really disagreeing about terminology and fine details. I think both of us (and probably most people in this thread) agree there's a problem and there's a long fight ahead of us.
ITT people are more hung up on the unfair persecution of 'gamers' than the actual harassment and discrimination LGBT people face from gamers, and from the industry
When oh when will we have our GAMER RIGHTS MOVEMENT
When oh when will we have our GAMER RIGHTS MOVEMENT
No, you weren't. Reread the post you replied to. I was asking for a term for the ones that base their identity on gaming.
Which again is the opposite of what I asked, but fine, let's go down that path.
And gamer is no different than swimmer, reader, painter, etc...
Oh wait, except it is; and not because of any inherent linguistic property of the fucking word, but because the gaming community is full of bigots. Who knew!?
Yeah, apparently you're just being weirdly oblivious. :P
Anyhow, I'm logging off. G'night everyone.
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My mistake I thought you were asking what the people who simply play games should call themselves.
Gamer is a far better word for Identity players which was my point all along.
Miscommunication on my part apologies.
I'll reiterate then
Gamer= Identity
Fan of games = well fan of playing games.
Yeah, I already got a taste of that after Sony's 1st party studios like Naughty Dog, Media Molecule, London Studio or the main PlayStation account on Twitter and Facebook changed their logos into a coloured price flag version. Some ugly-ass comments popped up. Terrible shit. A lot of people are assholes. Especially on social media :-/
As an LGBT person, fuck gamers.
I'm sick to death of the homophobic abuse I've gotten from gamers. Directly and indirectly.
There are a lot of lovely gamers, there are a lot of trash gamers. You can "not all gamers" me but that doesn't mean we don't have serous toxicity issues in our communities that needs to be addressed - after all, Gamergate lead into the rise of the alt-right of today.
It's very telling when people are more upset at gamers being identified as a negative trait rather than the abuse LGBTQIA+ people face everyday from gamers.
I'm sick to death of the homophobic abuse I've gotten from gamers. Directly and indirectly.
There are a lot of lovely gamers, there are a lot of trash gamers. You can "not all gamers" me but that doesn't mean we don't have serous toxicity issues in our communities that needs to be addressed - after all, Gamergate lead into the rise of the alt-right of today.
It's very telling when people are more upset at gamers being identified as a negative trait rather than the abuse LGBTQIA+ people face everyday from gamers.
True. But maybe people saying things like "gamers are trash" are shaping the arguement in a way that excludes the very same LGBTQ and minority gamers who are being discriminated against, without even realizing they are legitamizing the idea that gaming is for straight white males only.
I'm nonbinary and I don't care about whether I'm a "gamer" or not. If you want me to specify "shithead gamers" rather than just "gamers", then fine, but it's a dumb thing to get hung up on when people like me get harassed by shithead gamers all the time. If people defended LGBT in trouble like they defend their identity as gamers, we'd have shamed most of the shitholes off the internet by now.