...and I got called a faggot and told to kill myself for standing up for her.
We were playing Overwatch competitive mode and made the mistake of using team chat. She called out on mic, "Genji flank, help please"
That's it. That's all it took.
"Oh my god is that a girl?"
"Show us your tits."
"Shut the fuck up you fat cunt."
"You must be a fucking bull dyke if you play games."
Four randos, one silent, three yelling at her in chat until I convinced her to mute it and switch to discord. By then she was literally crying, and fuck victim blamers who say she should toughen up. I told them off before muting chat as well, only to have the silent person from the game send me a friend request. I accepted it to see if maybe they were equally disturbed and wanted to join up with us to give us less chances of more people like that, but nope. They sent the text in that screenshot. I just...what the fuck, guys.
i'm tired.
i'm so tired.
i'm tired of negativity, i'm tired of hatred, i'm tired of oppressive cynicism.
i'm tired of watching people's enthusiasm for the things they love get ground down by the needless attacks of other people.
i'm tired of people going out of their way to attack others, to be negative, to demean and demoralize for the sake of making themselves feel better.
of my hobbies being suffocated by people who hate the sight of anything that isn't specifically made for them
of death threats and slurs over video games, over accusing people who just want to feel included of censorship, of hurtful, hateful, vicious people
i'm tired of seeing my friends being made to cry because they happened to be a woman and dared to use voice chat in a videogame and were buried in horrible slurs
i'm tired of this community, of the people who
just...
i'm tired.
i want things to be better, but i'm running out of energy to fight for it.
and i'm tired of that, too.
I'm starting to think this hobby isn't worth it anymore.
