Homophobia and Harassment in the Online Gaming Age

[A Tasty Burgerr]

On Halo me and a couple friends used to proclaim we were an all gay clan that wore nothing but a bow tie and a smile.

 

[riley420]

you know what i mean....but its mostly french canadians that get ripped on rather than canadians in general. People hear that we we accent and go to town

No...I actually enjoy ripping on Canadians in general. They live in America's Hat. And their professional football is weird.

And I also think that fucking fags need to stop being such pussies. Does it really matter to you that xxBA3tMa34erxx, the 15 year old kid from Peoria, Illinois calls you a polesmoking rimjobber? You are one.

If someone calls me a redheaded stepchild or a fucking Mick, I give them the finger and move on with my day. I'm an adult and I could really give a shit that some teenager thinks some dude is gay.

 

[Blade]

I like making Mama Jokes online.

 

[dave]

No...I actually enjoy ripping on Canadians in general. They live in America's Hat.

Go ahead and rip us - we weren't stupid enough to let bankers destroy our economy, get taxpayer money for billions in bailouts, didn't lend anyway, and give out huge bonuses the next year.

 

[riley420]

Go ahead and rip us - we weren't stupid enough to let bankers destroy our economy, get taxpayer money for billions in bailouts, didn't lend anyway, and give out huge bonuses the next year.

You live in our hat. And you talk funny...all "aboot" and "eh"

Crazy Canucks.

BTW, don't get your panties in a bunch.

 

[brees fan]

That's Champ in a nutshell.

Champ wouldn't fit in a nutshell

 

[Bmore]

Let me be honest.

Growing up, We used to call each other gay as a form of put down. What I mean by that is, someone would do something random that had nothing to do with the topic and we'd say, "you gay dawg" or along those lines. Basically gay was the equivalent of calling someone stupid. As I've gotten older, I don't say it as much.

Now the bigger problem is the way people talk. I'm white, but because I've grown up in the ghetto for all my life, I talk like I'm "Black" or so people tell me. So when I'm online in XBL (this happens alot when I'm playing MW2) if I rape someone in a game, they start trying to bash me by calling me a "N1gger". Now even though I'm white, I don't like the word and majority of the time I'm playing with black friends so they speak up to the person. But occasionally when people call me it, I just leave. Maybe I'm giving in, but just as much as black people don't want to be remembered as slaves, white people don't want to be remembered as slave owners.

Basically what I'm saying is there is more Racial hate on XBL then there is Anti-Gay sentiments. The focus should be turned more toward the racists then the anti-gay.

 

[Berowsk]

Bmore, you lived in a hood in Kansas?

 

[Maynard]

i agree bmore. I dont think the gay slurs are even saying anything towards gay people half the time. Obviously cause nobody can tell if a person is gay on XBL.

But you can tell if a woman is online, and if someone sounds black, you can generally hear it in their speech or voice. Just like you can hear a frenchy or brit......these are the people i hear getting ripped just because of their origin

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Bmore, you lived in a hood in Kansas?

Hard streets of the 785

 

[Bmore]

Bmore, you lived in a hood in Kansas?

Are you retarded?

 

[Bmore]

Hard streets of the 785

I'm from Baltimore, Maryland grew up there.

But that picture was taken in Georgia... lol So that ain't no 785.

 

[Bmore]

This is 785, so if you want to try and hate. Better get your shit straight.

Funny how the topic has changed.

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Its more funny that the article is about hate, and this thread is turning into hate hate hate hate :laugh: