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Hello,

I have been playing with an account that has Laura in its name and i am forced to /mute all a good 80% of my games, here are the reasons:

1: Spanish people INSTANTLY assume you are a spanish girl and there is no way of convincing them otherwise.

It's a one way ticket to sexist jokes in spanish and whatnot, once you start seeing the spanish chat rolling in, you already know what you are in for ( I do speak and understand spanish though i am not, and Laura isn't a Spain exclusive name if anyone is wondering )

2: You often aren't entitled to an opinion about the game plan because "stfu girl play janna"

3: Recieving flame is ok, we all have been there daily, but the most frequent "insult" recieved BY FAR is gay / lesbian / girl (??)

I do not consider myself a SJW or anything close to that, but witnessing this behavior in a game is just so cringey i had to share it with someone.

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over 5 years ago - /u/RiotMoriGrl - Direct link

as someone with both "riot" and a variation of "girl" in my name, you have my heartfelt sympathies

over 5 years ago - /u/RiotMoriGrl - Direct link

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a sample of some things that people have said to me in league (by no means exhaustive):

"hey Riot go on a date with me?"

"lol ur trash, ur balance team is trash"

"you must be the janitor, pick up my trash"

"log off and fix your f*cking game" (at 1 AM on a Saturday)

"haha hows the sexism going, didnt think riot would still hire women"

"sorry riot i dont talk to cops" (this one is funny)

Once a guy asked if i work at riot and am female, and when i said yes, he proceeded to run it down top and int for 20 minutes. yes, people flame riot employees.

over 5 years ago - /u/RiotMoriGrl - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

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I sorta answered this in another comment responding to someone else. One example I forgot there was I was playing ADC in ranked the other day (Jinx main) and someone said "shouldn't you be playing support?"

Before being at riot, for a while i was "faker gamer girl." I had to change my name because I got so burned out with it. The flame wasn't every game, but pretty often. People would insult my gameplay (that much we have in common), one threatened to sexually assault me, and several called me gendered/trans slurs. Not really sure why I put it back in, tbh