Gamergate life 12 (english)
Ah, the 25 privileges of gaming while male, such bullshit. For 5 of my gamer years, i posed as a girl on online games, partly because i like roleplaying, partly because i like to do social experiment and human psicology, but the thing is i have a lot of experience on what it is to play as a “female” on online games, and i can assure you i choose to be a “female” on online games 10 of 10 times, The treatment i received when people was convinced i was a woman was a thousand times better than when they knew i was male. I had to in good conscience reject gifts a lot of times, and my companions were much comprehensive of what i said as a female than as male, even if i said some intentional stupidity their reactions were much softer than as male.
Is there some men who think you will play worse because you are a woman?, yes, there’s a few, and i make a point of correctim them when i see them. But overall that is not the case, gamers judge people by skill, they are extremelly welcome of females and give them special treatment when playing.
Everything that can be said about this has already been said by Karen straughan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF2UmyXe-4
This… could backfire.
Well they could attack my manhood for playing as a female. As if i cared about it.
Never actually seen any sexism at all and I was often friends with most of the female gamers on my server on wow. I’ve played since vanilla on the same server, name, and character so everyone knew me.
Reminds me of the old experiment Something Awful did a few years back with Vanilla WOW. They got one of their writers to pose as a female player with a female character and then write about all the free shit he got from thirsty players.
Something Awful did something not inherently evil? XD
That is completely true, i just don’t understand where the stereotype of voice chat harraser stereotype came from, maybe the 12 year olds in shooters, but they harrass anyone
I’m female, and I’ve never had an instance where I’ve been harassed, if you’d even call it that, in my five years of gaming. I mean, hell, other women ‘harassed’ me only after Gamergate would become a topic in the group, which was fairly rare.
I¡ve noticed that online attacks on women are usually done by other women. Men usually stand aside and watch the confrontation.
As a male gamer I have seen both sides of this in action. I have seen many a man dote on a “female” gamer (and thus I started following the mantra “guy unless proven otherwise”) and I have also seen the “brotherly” flaming of each other.
Hell, I both give and receive it and I’m totally okay with it. As far as I’m concerned in PvP games taunting your opponents is a perfectly viable strategy.
Oh, i taunted SO much when i played Lineage 2. I was the top 1 pvp player and a big reason for it is that i knew how to taunt people into making mistakes XD