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EA Staff (Retired)

Re: Why is this phrase blocked?!

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

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BigMacAttack8u
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@EA_Pythia Thank you for your response and your insight. Unfortunately the offender communicated the hate over voice chat, which isn’t usually isn’t detected by the system, and I am unable to record voice chat audio on Xbox, I’ll be turning speech to text on in the future. Unfortunately the offenders usually skip past gay, and go straight for the big one. I have been called unfavorable things, but the f-slur seems to be the most common, especially in arenas and modes like control and gun run. I’ve even usually preformed better than them in the match, which I do like to point out when that happens 🙂
Best wishes to all that responded to this thread, thank you for your support, insight and for sharing a little about yourself, I know it can take a lot to do that.