A community for progressive issues, social justice and LGBT+ causes in media, gaming, entertainment and tech.
Official replacement for Reddit's r/GamerGhazi
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Community rules:
Be respectful and civil with each other. Don't be a jerk. There is a real human being on the other side of your screen. See also the Blahaj.Zone Community Rules
No bigotry of any kind allowed. Making racist, sexist, trans-/homo-/queerphobic, otherwise demeaning and hateful comments is not ok. Disabilities and mental illnesses are not to be used as insults and should not be part of your comment unless speaking of your own or absolutely relevant.
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No "justice porn". Posts regarding legal action and similar is allowed, but celebrating someone being harmed is not.
Contrarianism for its own sake is unnecessary and not welcome.
No planning operations, no brigading, no doxxing or similar activities allowed.
Absolutely no defense of GamerGate and other right-wing harassment campaigns, no TERFs and transphobia, racism, dismissing of war crimes and praise of fascists. This includes “JAQing off”, intentionally asking leading questions while pretending to be a neutral party. This also applies to other forms of authoritarianism and authoritarian or criminal actions by liberal or leftist governments.
NSFW threads, such as ones discussing erotic art, pornography and sex work, must be tagged as such.
Moderators can take action even if none of the rules above are broken.
I'm surprised that in vr games like vrchat where men pretending (not trans) to be women is common that real women are being harassed for being good at being who they are? it doesn't make sense to have a culture of pretending to be a demographic while hurting people in that demographic.
My personal view is that it's a power thing: Men are establishing a hierarchy by being toxic towards women, irrespective of chosen avatars.
Substack link. No want.
Although it is true that this happens a lot with vr and non vr games, you always have the option to put yourself out of the situation. If you feel unconformable, leave the game. Of course, this advice doesn't fit every case, when online it always seems like you can't leave that call or that game cuz people will judge you but that should be less of a priority than your mental health ~
Yes, people can always leave a gave, but the end result are no-go zones for certain people. Of course, many chuds want exactly that. They want to push out anyone they don't like.
things get shitty? don't ask for a problem to be addressed, just give up. Great advice.
Why is the burden of being harassed on the harassed?
So shrug and accept the problem is insurmountable? No.