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My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts. I want to see an actual study, because
by FakeComments 7y ago
My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts.
I want to see an actual study, because my anecdata doesn’t match the claimed experience.
- inetknght 7y agoYou don't think that getting more attention, help, and outright handouts isn't its own form of bullying? You don't think it hints at an ever-more underlying reason behind the attention, help, and handouts?
- jonfw 7y agoI don't think that help and handouts is bullying, and frankly I find it amusing that somebody would argue that
- saagarjha 7y agoYou don't see an issue with being unable to have your in-game relationships progress past "you're a woman and that's the only thing we care about you"?
- FakeComments 7y agoI never said that they couldn’t progress past that — the overwhelming majority understood no or were willing to move past sex, in my limited experience of online games. But it’s just misandry to pretend that women don’t use men for sex or have ulterior motives in starting friendships too. To borrow a phrase, I think that women live such privileged lives, equality feels like oppression. Their vision of men when complaining is the few men at the pinnacle, not those tread under heel. So as I said before, I want to see actual data.
- coldtea 7y ago>You don't think that getting more attention, help, and outright handouts isn't its own form of bullying? Yes, if we distort bullying out of all sense to just mean "different treatment"... In that sense, a rich person who receives more attention, the best seats in the house, VIP treatment where they go, are also "bullied".
- outworlder 7y ago> in video games First of all, this is a different demographic. Second, workplaces have a totally different dynamic.