Ah. I see you dont actually know what the fuck gaming is and have no understanding of the concept. Are you 50 or a feminist?
Translation: I have never picked up a controller in my life and believe everything I do about games from places like Kotaku and Polygon and take Anita Sarkeesian as gospel. I also am very quick to smear female, poc, and lgbt gamers who try to correct my misconceptions.
ashgdajhfgk yep, that’s all I hear 100% of the time when I’m playing multiplayer games with my dudes, “I hate women and minorities”. Yeah. That’s definitely the favourite thing to say over voice comms when I’m the last one alive and they’re checking cameras and telling me where the enemy players are to help their female gamer buddy get a win for the team. Yeahp, that’s what we’re really talking about when we’re discussing team comp and helping eachother understand different playable characters. Our politically charged blind hatred is all that’s on our minds as we just chill out for an evening, having fun and bonding over our favourite hobby.
It’s all just dripping with various -isms, cause at the end of the day, that’s what gaming’s all about!
/End furious sarcasm
You know, because women who have been gamers since the days of the Atari totally don’t exist or anything.
Yeah, there are assholes in gaming. There are assholes EVERYWHERE. What’s your point?
I sat in the basement with the other six-year-olds playing the original NES. Nobody cared if you were a boy or a girl. They cared if you could get past the water level in Ninja Gaiden.
I can’t tell you how many times I have been the only girl in a game group or how many times the Gamestop employees would drop everything because OMG THERE IS ACTUALLY A GIRL IN THE STORE. Though the novelty wore off for the newer employees once they worked there for a bit because I practically lived there.
Again, there are some assholes, but the mute/block function is there for a reason. Also, there are different hangouts for different folks. If you don’t like one place, find another.
32 years later, people still don’t care if I’m female (except for overly sensitive guys if I whoop their asses). The only “girl gamers” people hate are the ones who are all “LOL LOOK AT ME EVERYONE I’M A GIRL GIVE ME SPECIAL TREATMENT.” No. Fuck you. Bitches like that perpetuate negative stereotypes. If you can’t swim with the sharks, go back to the kiddie pool.
But hey, apparently my experience and that of so many other women in gaming like myself, such as the WomenGamers site I was a member of in 1996, is invalid because Anita Sarkeesian played three games in her entire life and decided to make a living out of playing the victim card.
Heck even the people on GTA aren’t really that bad.
Most of the guys I’ve played with are really chill “I thought you were a 12hear old boy” type guys.
Hi casual gamer here who used to play in internet cafes when I was in college.
I was surrounded by male gamers all the time and they used to come over when they see I’m struggling or when I ask for help. They talk shit yes, the cafes I go to are always loud since all of them scream at each other and at their computers but most are very helpful to the girl who was struggling to level up.
