{"id":43450,"date":"2012-08-22T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43450"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:37:53","slug":"ea-dev-speaks-out-against-sexism-and-racism-in-the-gaming-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43450-ea-dev-speaks-out-against-sexism-and-racism-in-the-gaming-community","title":{"rendered":"EA dev speaks out against sexism and racism in the gaming community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is an interesting place, and not just because they put mashed potato on their hotdogs. For example, each week, the official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sweden\" target=\"_blank\">@sweden Twitter account<\/a> is handed over to a member of the public, to say whatever they want.<\/p>\n<p>This week, that member of the public is Battlefield Heroes dev Naseer Alkhouri, who&#8217;s decided to take the opportunity to talk about sexism and racism in the gaming community (and vikings).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gamers tend to be misogynist, racist and rather unpleasant overall, especially online,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We treat women and people not like us badly. This is of course partly to blame on the games industry as well. I am rather saddened by the behaviour of my peers, for me gaming is an inclusive hobby. That\u2019s why I got hooked after all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to some of the more (inevitably) hostile replies, he added that, &#8220;Sure, anyone can buy a game. That\u2019s not my point. But do you dare to be yourself online unless you are a white, heterosexual male?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because, of course, if you&#8217;re not a white, heterosexual male, <a href=\"http:\/\/fatuglyorslutty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this is what happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve no doubt his comments will be entirely ignored by the very people who most desperately need to think about them, it&#8217;s rather nice to see that more and more men are speaking up about this. Somebody give this guy a mashed potato hotdog.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepolitics.com\/2012\/08\/21\/game-developer-uses-swedens-twitter-account-confront-sexism-and-misogyny-game-community\" target=\"_blank\">GamePolitics<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/42842-the-problem-with-girlfriend-mode-according-to-a-girlfriend.html\">The problem with \u201cgirlfriend mode\u201d, according to a girlfriend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/41436-keep-gay-out-of-gaming.html\">Keep gay out of gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41849-gamers-against-bigotry-site-targeted-by-hackers.html\">Gamers Against Bigotry site targeted by hackers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/40656-women-in-combat.html\">Women in combat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39537-e3-booth-babes-rating-feature-causes-internet-backlash.html\">E3 \u201cbooth babes\u201d rating feature causes internet backlash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/36410-are-girl-gamers-sexist-towards-men.html\">Are girl gamers sexist towards men?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you dare to be yourself online unless you are a white, heterosexual male?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":43453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,6380,5880,4568],"class_list":["post-43450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-naseer-alkhouri","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43456,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions\/43456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}