[amarant]

>They're only directing their hostility at the ""other"". All this shittiness doesn't affect their straight white male devs (the majority), so they can function just fine.

I don't think that's entirely true. even if they use sexual and racial slurs, it's apparent from the article that they are used as insults directed at each other. I'm a white hetero male developer (not game-dev though) myself, and I'm not sure I'd be able to work in a environment such as the one described for too long. I mean it'd certainly be easier for me, given my biological "fitting in" with the rest of the group. I'd still have a hard time in such a culture.

[mrguyorama]

They aren't calling their fellow white males "crackers". By using such slang intended as an insult, there is an implication that the "other" is "lesser"

[ethbro]

Yelling obscenities against minorities, directed at those of your own group seems like it would strongly reinforce an "Us" / "Them" differentiation.

What's more bonding than shared mockery of the other?