Re: HOMOFOBİC APEX BANNED ME
Sadly this is the case. Please have a read below :
@EA_Pythia wrote:
Hi @BigMacAttack8u,
while I wasn't aware that the word "gay" is banned, it does make sense to me - sadly it's about the people using it and the context it is used in, which is the problem, not the word itself. In my friend group, as example, we use the word gay to describe each other, as we are indeed all queer, but when someone yells it across the street on a night out, it's sadly generally speaking not used in the positive sense.
In an online game, where you get randomly matched with people from all kinds of demographics, the chance that the word gay is being used to insult someone is far more likely than not. And I don't know about you, but being called a word that you identify as, but which is used in a way meant to hurt you, is not a good feeling.
Banning a word is not necessarily meant to marginalize it, it's actually meant to keep it from being misused and reappropriated back into a negative connotation.
About the player that called you the f-slur though - if you remember their details, please report them, as that kind of behaviour falls under EA's no tolerance policy and will get them banned.
- Pythia
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Why-is-this-phrase-blocked/m-p/12283110#M230863
