It should come as no surprise to anyone who has been in a cis male dominated environment that a very specific way of conveying ideas starts to form. This jargon or meme-esque way of speaking can only be attributed to the toxic masculinity that inevitably starts to rear it’s ugly head when men spend too much time together in their “man caves” or online games in this instance.

The player base of EvE has been a bit more creative and perhaps a bit more subtle in the creation of their oppressive way of describing things than your average online misogynistic pissbaby. One example of such is the way some capital ships are spoken of. A dreadnought class ship Naglfar is often referred as “vertical supremacy”.

I’ll say it again “vertical supremacy”, the person who coined this term was very devious. Compounding all the undesirable features toxic masculinity has to offer. The impact of these two words had on me when i first heard them was devastating. I was shaking in rage and had to retreat to my safe space for a while.

The Naglfar is a male power fantasy manifest, it is as tall as it is powerful and coupled with the term “vertical supremacy”, you can clearly tell that this ship and its name are nothing more than a tool for oppression and a force to keep women and pocs out of EvE Online.

Now lets get down to the really problematic implications of the aforementioned term. It rings like that of a chant in white supremacist convention, announcing that they, the cis males stand above everyone and everything. The phallic symbolism of the ship can’t be ignored either.

In essence they have crafted a virtual weapon to attack everything that is not heteronormative white male and this can’t be tolerated! How can CCP allow such blatant racism and prejudice to be perpetrated by their playerbase.

This needs to change, EvE needs a stricter guidelines of what is allowed. There is no place for discrimination in EvE.

Mille05, A-Clinic, CVA

