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Originally Posted by Asrathiel

So many things I could say in here... don't want a giant wall of text

So I'll just bring up one point. I hate hate HATE seeing the word 'rape' used so casually in the way it is in gaming. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Now I haven't been raped (sexually assulted, yes, but not raped) so I can only imagine how a woman who actually had gone though that trauma might feel seeing that word so casually tossed around, or even said to her on ladder...

And people wonder why there aren't more girls in gaming.

Me too. Not only is it super inappropriate it shows the user's poor grasp on the English language such that they can't find a better adjective to describe a victory/defeat. (Crushed, obliterated, destroyed?)

As for your mention about the lack of girls in gaming I actually did some research on that. It stems from a perceived lack of fit when females look at themselves in comparison to gamer culture. Obviously that lack of fit is reinforced by the normalization of offensive language/behaviour. Here is an interesting article on the subject by Mare Shepard.