ACADEMIC

Dr Emma Vossen did her thesis on the Cultural Inaccessibility of Games. She talked about the different aspects of the issue, having studied them extensively.

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"If you are standing on that initial false misconception that the world is stacked against you as a white man, that is what leads you to harassment.

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There is no technical fix that will ever solve the problem of in-game harassment. The only thing that’s going to solve it is for the culture to change. I think that we need to make using racial slurs or gendered slurs culturally deviant to succeed in stopping it."