Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun
I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.
Posted by: Ason Unique
I don't think that "commodification" is the right word for what the OP described as it's not like women are being traded online. Objectification was probably what OP was trying to say.
With that said the OP is right about women being heavily objectified online, especially on these forums, but that's bound to happen when you get a group of young males together even more so when there's a lot of virgins within that group and when they are protected by the anonymity they receive online.
I'm sure that the same people that objectify the ladies online are probably near incapable of speaking to them in the real world which is probably also why they objectify them in the first place.Shouldn't we be trying to teach our young men that objectification of women is unacceptable? Shouldn't that be a message that's deeply ingrained to society, just like "don't flash your junk in public", or anything else we assume people who have been socialised take for granted?
Posted by: Iggyhopper
Once you dive in, the rest is just learning to deal, for both genders. Guys can get pretty rowdy with each other, as well as call them tons of obscenities, some bigoted, some not. Either the gaming world is going to be nicer or girls will just have to accept the culture. The sexism might go away but the harshness won't. They'll just have to deal.I don't really have a problem with the harshness, as you say. I don't care if people want to trash talk, because I know it's often not serious (and when it is, who cares?). But I don't think things like gender/ethnicity/orientation/disability/etc. should be grounds for mockery, no matter what the arena. Most decent guys wouldn't scream sexist slurs at a woman who walked past them in a public place (emphasis on most, of course). Why is it considered "just part of the atmosphere" online?