Embarrassing, sexist and homophobic: the ZDF

Six online friends who live together in a house, play video games and fulfill funny tasks. The gambling house of ZDF sounds like harmless fun. It is all the more annoying that the program will connect the young gamers with sexist and homophobic clichés.

The Zockerhaus : What is about the ZDF child broadcast?

The television already has almost terms: people of all ages and, of course, young people like to play video games and nothing wrong. The time embarrassing RTL reports about the Gamescom should actually be over. The series published in September The Zockerhaus on ZDFtivi but then blamps again by warming up no prejudice over the gaming, but sexist and homophobic clichés.

The basic idea of ​​the child broadcast is not really bad. Six young gamers aged 15 to 16 years who have previously only spent online time, pull together into the gambling house and have to test there, how strong their friendship is in the real world . In the eight episodes of the series, the three teams complete both online as well as analog challenges such as archery or football.

Glitter tattoos and unicorn bed linen as a nasty punishment

The problems start with the nasty punishments waiting for the loser team. As a result, the teenagers should exchange their Zocker linen by pink unicorn bed linings and send pictures to friends at home. In later episodes, among other things, the nails will be painted to paint, wear clothes and pink wigs to stick glitter tattoos in the face or call a friend with mouthscrew and tell him that you love him.

And why that s all? The responsible persons behind the series probably believed that there would be nothing unpleasant for guys to have as a lacquered nails or sleep in a bed with pink bed linen, because that s probably only girls . The fact is that of course there is nothing wrong or unmistakable at all. Really embarrassing is instead, as the Zockerhaus these sexist and homophobic clichés in a series for children is normalized and deposited on his protagonists, so that they relieve each other.

The Zockerhaus is playful potential

A cheaper plan, which also goes back to the back, because the young gamers show that they are much easier than those responsible behind the series. The unicorn bed linen can be found, for example, Cool and cozy . No, the problem is that the tasks will be presented eight consequences long consistent as embarrassing punishments standing on a stage to collect garbage in the city or wash socks by hand.

It is not an improvement when television channels stop gamer as to portray unwashed and violent spinners just to make fun of it now when six guys have to do girls. It is a pity that the punishments devalue the truly beautiful moments of the series so that the boys meet, for example, a cross-sectional gamer gambling gambling with his mouth using a special controller.

The club cliches ESC also criticizes the gay and women s fainting messages of the series in an open letter. He demands that the series is set and the consequences are deleted in the media library . The ZDF should not give up his idea to show the friendships between Gamern but not completely. But come along, just let this stupid cliché away. And even better: maybe even invite a girl.

A new ZDF series wants to show the friendship between Gamern. The Zockerhaus then uses it then sexist and homophobic clichés . For example, the protagonists are punished by sleeping in pink bed linen. We say: Even the ZDF should urgently make friends with the idea that the world has meanwhile turned on and should have arrived in a better time. We hope that those responsible learn something out of criticism and finally deliver a good series about gaming.