Trans woman harassed on Deadlock happy her voice training is working

Trans Woman Harassed on Deadlock Happy Her Voice Training is Working

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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You joke, but I've seen and heard about similar situations of misogynists being weirdly trans inclusive.
People call that "gender ewwphoria".
- Ya know this reminds me of a story
  I remember the Early Days of Gamergate when it wasn't obvious that it was just Milo Yiannaopolus recruiting for the Neo Nazis.
  Back when they actually stuck to the story of holding Game Journalists accountable for poor reporting.
  I joined up and was actually kicked out because the guy in charge of the chapter for it took one look at me and said "Sorry honey, this is for gamers, not lonely females looking for boyfriends. GET OUT!"
  I was pissed at the time, but I realized I dodged a fucking bullet.
  
  Honestly I was in /r/kotakuinaction and mocked games journos for a bit, but after a while I just quickly noticed the nazis lurking around and bailed. Plus, the posts were just becoming more and more whiny, and from there I just thought "yeah everyone's here a fucking loser, I'm out".
  Thankfully that realization made me slide away from the alt-right pipeline, nowadays I'm an anarchy-aligned libertarian socialist :)
- Gender uwuphoria
- I love the term lol
  My most affirming moments as a trans woman have been people saying sexist shit to me because they see me as a woman.
  It's not nice, but I know they're being honest about me passing lol.
- There was a subreddit called accidental ally or something like that with tons of posts like this
- Haha. That parrot sounds like an inclusive bastard.
Transinclusive misogyny is the ally we didn't know we needed.
- Women are so bad at being women men had to show them how.
When reached for comment, Meadows’s teammate, a 15-year-old called x_MrMisogyny_x, had this to say:
“Girls are just worse at video games. It’s like, biological. When I hear a girl in my team chat, I try to make her quit, ‘cuz she’s just not supposed to be there. Gaming is for men, like me.” MrMisogyny had further comments, but was interrupted by his mother calling him downstairs for dinner.
Lol! Priceless.
This isn't satire, this is just true, lmao
Well, at least I think like this. If I'm gonna be called slurs, at least have them be the right ones, lmao
Even got the same first name to boot
- Literally me, I feel you
MrMisogyny had further comments, but was interrupted by his mother calling him downstairs for dinner.
Wonderful.
ewwphoria is a real thing. Quite hilarious to see some homophobe say "you'll always be a man. You'll never be a woman!! 😡😡" on a trans dudes post
amazing to see the onion do an article on this 🥰 10/10
- I shouted gaaaaayyy at my friend and their boyfriend once when they were being cute together. It was funny how it annoyed them and made em happy at the same time.
  
  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.
i ate the onion for way too long, even googling her name to find a video of the clip 😂 i'm so sorry
This was 100% how I felt when I played Dota more.
Plus, it makes the toxic people I'm probably going to mute later reveal themselves immediately!

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