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1) As a guy, I've had horrible stuff said to me as well. I've heard N-word, "fag", etc... These are 12 year olds we're dealing with.

2) There seems something deeply ironic that the big strong man was signing on to unlock things for the poor wife here...

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1) During the game yeah. Not just while logging in. I bet nobody just tried to kick you out of a game because of your nametag.

I've had people try to kick me out for various reasons - not typing a response fast enough, thinking I'm chinese, and a number of reasons I couldn't even decipher.

Due to white knight emotional impulses, we treat attacks on females in games as special. But I don't see a logical reason to do this.

Yeah but it has nothing to do with your identity and it's not systematic.

Surely, the racism part is. But since race isn't announced through the name tag, I imagine it's less prevalent.

Some games do show the players nationality (at least to the extent that is represented geolocating their IP address).

Nope, my screen name is from a anime, and I've been called all kinds of asian slurs as a result (I'm not asian)

qq moar. uninstall and go play tetris, n00b!

If that's irony, then well played!

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