Breaking News: Many gamers are anti-LGBTQ (Eurogamer Logo)
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Pretty late on this news. Same shit happened over a month ago when naughty dog, gamestop, and everyone else did it. News flash, most gamers are fucking trash.
Not just a Facebook problem either, it seems.
Edit The second one is apparently a sarcastic reference to a similar topic made on here recently, so fine. Let's ignore that. The first one is genuine by all appearances.
Why people keep bashing gaming community? This is not a isolated case. Gaming, fotball (when a black guy make goal people trow a banana in the camp), politic... At least here in Brazil its a stupid showcase of racism. Even one of our candidates for president is racist and homophobic and anti-LGBTQ.
Thank god I exclude my facebook. This place is literally a no mans land without law. Very depressing place.
Thank god I exclude my facebook. This place is literally a no mans land without law. Very depressing place.
When Pride Month ended here, I briefly considered switching back to a non-rainbow avatar, but I'm glad I didn't. Same with many others on Era that I still see rocking rainbows: good on ya. With so many people like this out there, we need all the expressions of pride we can get.
It is a reference to a previous topic.
Reference to previous topic.
I mean you're right. Everyone can be a gamer which is kind of the whole point. This is not a problem of the gaming community in general but society as a whole.
I think two of the reasons this seems so concentrated in the gaming community are
1. As someone already said it's a "young" hobby mostly and that's just ignorance.
2. Gaming is primarily marketed at a core audience (straight white males enjoying (gun) violence though that's a bit generalising you know what I mean) that's maybe more inclined to have these views?
I dunno. I just always feel I see this shit more in the gaming community than for example in replies to cinema reviews. (Like imagine if Call Me By Your Name was a game)
I'd say you're pretty spot on.
It's the brazenness of these people that really surprises me. It just shows how insular their lives are if they can be that open and no one in their friends list would raise an eyebrow at such comments. Trash is trash and even though there has been big strides in recent years there is still so much to do and just shows why we need to have events like PRIDE.
Unfortunately other communities are far worse. Especially sports communities. That's why no active soccer player in Europe had a coming-out so far.
Eurogamers handling this perfectly, and there is a lot of positive comments there as well, people just focus on the negative more as per usual.
But yeah, the toxic side of the gaming crowd really is still too big, hopefully it continues to shrink with time though.
But yeah, the toxic side of the gaming crowd really is still too big, hopefully it continues to shrink with time though.
Bus driver saw my Triforce pin and was like, right, that's you at the back of the bus. #endgameroppression
Well can you post some of them, have deactivated FB, so it would have been nice to see those.
Anyway, I have no problem with this, but aren't they pretty late to the party? I mean pride month was like 2 months ago, but if their boring logo is going to have more colors on it then good for them : )
I loved Eurogamer's retorts and replies to hateful and supportive comments.
Here is an interesting comment:
There are active members on ERA who support similar ideology disguised as sensible business practice.
Let that sink in.
Here is an interesting comment:
There are active members on ERA who support similar ideology disguised as sensible business practice.
Let that sink in.
It is amazing to me that people could be so brazen as to use their real names and profiles to be so vile. To be OK with their friends and family seeing this is beyond me.
Yeah fair play Eurogamer. Really nice replies to the assholes with the trash comments.
This also happened not too long ago when Naughty Dog uploaded a Pride-themed logo. For all these people constantly whine about "snowflakes", the irony that they're so triggered by the sight of a rainbow of all things seems to be lost on them.
Maintaining the status quo. Somehow that's seen as an apolitical position by some people.
Sexists, racists, assholes in general.
In fact it doesn't even stop with the gamer community. Apparently a lot of people are like that.
In fact it doesn't even stop with the gamer community. Apparently a lot of people are like that.
That's because nobody follows Media Molecule. :todd:
"The nerve! Showing some support for the gay community without any consideration for the side that wishes they didn't exist!" lol
The worst comments aren't even the "fuck you I'm unliking this" ones, they're the "I respect all people regardless of sexuality but I don't like this being shoved down our throats" and "Shouldn't Eurogamer remain neutral about this issue?" ones that turn sexual orientation into a political issue and take the nonsensical "both sides" approach with it.
I know this might be annoying, but can we please stop normalizing and deflecting this?
At least from my Point of View (privately and professionally) it's absolutely fine to call out the gaming community for this. I've seen lots of baseless hate on the internet, of course, but it doesn't help to instantly go "But there are other fan groups, too!". Whenever you see this shit these days, the chance is incredibly high "gamers" are involved. It's on every gaming website, blog and forum, people who are hunted on Twitter are, for the most part, involved in either the gaming scene or very near neighbors like movies. The bigger names known in this scene all rose up during "Gamergate" or gaming related incidents. They branch out.
I get where you're coming from, I see this all day, but "It's not only gamers!" serves absolutely no purpose in this fight. The "gamers" scene is where all of us on this forum come from, and it's the "gamers scene" we should keep an eye on, it's the "gamers scene" which is our turf and we should take responsibility for people shitting our place up with this crap. People can be shit everywhere, that's damn right, but in this case, on a gamers' website with gamers' audience and gamers' comments, I feel that's an incredibly dishonest and ignorant argument to make. It's gamers.
Idk maybe I'm rambling, but I read this every single time in every single gaming related discussion about this.
It's pride weekend in the town their offices are at. I think it's also Europride in Amsterdam but I'm not sure
Translated: "Stop having political views that are different from my political views."
I'm going to get some legs out of this
Part of gaming's problem is ya'll never want to admit gaming has a problem.
Part of gaming's problem is ya'll never want to admit gaming has a problem.
These people don't want to be reminded that LGBT people are discriminated against, they want to live in their own bubble and just act like there is no such thing.
Trust me, I understand what you're saying, after all this is a gaming centric forum. And GamerGate is still very fresh in the mind of most. But it just sometimes annoys me that some people act like gamers are the scorch of the earth and are the ones rallying behind the racist and homophobic movements.
And yeah, in this thread I'm wrong for saying what I did since the problem at hand is happening in a gaming site, so of course everyone is going to be a gamer in this context. It's just something that annoys me a bit in most of these threads.
the only time in history where equality wasn't a partisan issue was in homogenized tribes of 14 people
Well, I'd say there's a difference between gamers and Gamers. It's sort of like incels. There are people who play games and enjoy them, but then there are others who consider it to be their identity and act like they're a clearly-defined group like Muslims, blacks, etc. and that they can be targeted the same way, which is just not true.
What does stay neutral even mean? There are 2 sides to equality? Also agree that people constantly hand waving the gaming communities toxic issues as "What about the fact that all communities are bad?" is part of the problem.
GayGames are starting in Paris.That's why.
Still, i'm very dispointed by some comments here. I though Area was a safe place, including maybee for gays. It's not. And when it comes to be aware of things hapening in the real world.... pfff!
Still, i'm very dispointed by some comments here. I though Area was a safe place, including maybee for gays. It's not. And when it comes to be aware of things hapening in the real world.... pfff!
