- Axelord FTW
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Copy paste from another forum.
Here's my POV on this.
I don't play with women.
I don't even play with men.
I play with people.
They are genderless to me.
I hold no associative distinction between players beyond Really Good/Good/Moderate/Normal/Below Average/Bad/Really bad.
The only place where this doesnt hold itself true is when I know the player on a more personal level.
I do this for a simple reason: I'm neither a misogynist nor a misandrist. it's easier to hold an all encompassing policy than to place distinction between player before I know them well enough to pass better judgement.
As for experience so far, I have many gripes with players but only one that exist between me and players of the feminine disposition.
It's the inferiority complex some of them hold.
Ladies, if someone is being rude to you, please don't respond with a hearty "Is it because I'm a woman?".
It very well might be their reason, but you are only reinforcing your role in their eyes by placing yourself where they expect you to be.
Also, some might genuinely not like you for reasons other than your sex.
As a result, most women I did meet while playing vidya I have come to dislike.
They made a duty of themselves to point out their gender for no other reason as to put themselves in light unnecessarily.
You want personally, as an individual, more respect from the playerbase? Don't debase yourself, don't -blam!-ize yourself and don't step up on a podium unheeded asking for recognition where none is needed. I ask this not because you are a female but because you are someone I might play with. I ask nothing different from the other gender.