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: Xplode441
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
Ah, so you admit that you're sexist and part of the problem, and resent the fact that you may be asked to be part of the solution.I'm sexist when it's humorous to be so. And saying "Don't post sexist jokes" isn't a -blam!- solution. I've said this multiple times, but it doesn't seem to be getting through your head.As a guy, you have the liberty of only not being sexist when it suits you.
As a woman, I'm affected by it all the time.
Easy for you to dismiss something as unimportant when it doesn't affect you, isn't it?
Posted by: NinjaLord77
I'd never call you a whore Jay but some people deserve the negativity that they receive. Like the damn Kardashians, get the hell off TV.Kim Kardashian is a terrible person, but it has nothing to do with the fact that she's a woman and everything to do with the fact that she's a talentless hack who has turned her personal life into a worthless commodity that people nonetheless seem willing to buy.
So yeah, calling her a bad person or a waste of space might be warranted - but calling her a whore never is.
It's the same for women on this site that I don't like. I dislike them because I find them unpleasant as people, but I'd never participate in or condone any kind of gender-based harassment, no matter what I think of them personally.
Posted by: Duardo
I've never been a fan of bullies or jerks. Sorry you're going through that, OP.
If you're playing XBL I would suggest you limit your speech to team and party only. It makes a world of difference.A long time ago - it'd be about two years now - I was on a team in Reach that beat another team, and in the postgame lobby, a bunch of people were talking trash to me because I was a girl. I said something to shut them down and left the party, only to have one guy spam me with voice messages asking me when (not even if, when!) I was going to cut the crap and cyber with him.
I've stayed in party chat ever since.
Posted by: Baph117
Nice post Jay.
I like to think of these in terms of evolutionary psychology. For the better part of history, women were a resource of sorts. Social groups had to protect their women in order to survive. This objectified women, to be sure, but in the days before guns and modern medicine, the benefits outweighed the negatives, which is why patriarchal societies have been the norm throughout history and into the modern era.
In this particular situation, I think this tendency for male gamers to focus on the femaleness of female gamers to be a continuation of this (in my opinion) evolved trait. Female gamers are part of gamer society, and thus a "resource" that belongs to the gamer society in ways that male gamers are not.But most reputable scientists think evo psych is garbage, don't they?
Which is not to say that I don't think your post is true - I think that what you're saying is a justification people use for perpetuating gender stereotypes and discrimination. But to act as though it's a valid justification is a bit problematic.
Posted by: theTYTAN3
I decided instead of reading through a bunch of posts to see if my point has already been made. I'll just say it.
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
Female gamers are not actually rare - I believe estimates run as high as 50% of gamers being women, which makes sense when you consider that women also make up slightly more than 50% of the planet's population.
This is bogus and you know it there's a difference between a "GAMER" and a consumer who might occasionally buy games. Buying Bejeweled or Angry Birds doesn't make you a gamer. Which is what all of the studies that say 50% of gamers are girls consider a gamer.
I'd say the actual number is more like 25% of all "gamers", and I'm willing to bet a large portion of these woman don't play half as often as Males and thus they are even rarer than 25%.
I think I'm being rather generous in my estimates.
but that doesn't make any of what goes on in communitys like these okay. Just because a group of people is a slight rarity doesn't make it okay to Give them crap about it.Ah, gamer elitism.
I was wondering how long it'd take.
As a child of the 90s, I actually consider everyone who's never played an Epic Megagames PC title a casual gamer. Get out of my thread, poser.
(Protip: you don't get to decide which games are geeky enough to count and which ones aren't. People game because they enjoy it, not to gain admittance into some kind of social clique.)