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Trans woman harassed on Deadlock happy her voice training is working (hard-drive.net)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/theonion

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Local woman Skye Meadows, better known by her in-game display name TheValidValkyrie, has found gender affirmation in an unexpected place: the voice chat of early access MOBA shooter Deadlock.

“It was really weird,” said Meadows. “I was calling for support left in voice chat and one of my teammates just called me a bitch. Later in the game that same guy tried to 1v3 and asked if I was ‘too busy making sandwiches’ to help him when he died. It was annoying at first, but then I realized he was harassing me because I sound like a girl.” [...]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

back in the 90s, "that is so gay" was used as a pejorative, to express displeasure. at lesbian game night, whenever any of our meeples are next to each other on the board it's usually a race to see who gets to say it (in our best Lumpy Space Princess voice) first.