Why is this phrase blocked?!
There was a REALLY toxic fuse on my team, I got called the f word (the slur, not the swear) I replied with “Why do u hate gays??” And it came out as “why do you hate ******” gay is not a swear word,...
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@EdwardDLuffy @PeterN_UK
I appreciate the responses 🙂 they have great advice, and speak truths, but unfortunately that was not quite my point. They’ve blocked the word gay. I’m not a fan of them doing so, last I checked they haven’t blocked straight, or any of the others. All words can be used to belittle and marginalize, but we don’t block them all, becase without more words around it, they mean nothing bad. Only words that are bad in and out of a sentence should be banned, but gay is not one of those.
Forgiveness of course, but never forget.
I appreciate the responses 🙂 they have great advice, and speak truths, but unfortunately that was not quite my point. They’ve blocked the word gay. I’m not a fan of them doing so, last I checked they haven’t blocked straight, or any of the others. All words can be used to belittle and marginalize, but we don’t block them all, becase without more words around it, they mean nothing bad. Only words that are bad in and out of a sentence should be banned, but gay is not one of those.
Forgiveness of course, but never forget.
EA_Pythia
Community Manager
Community ManagerHi @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
- @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.