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If you doubt this, create an alt with a woman's name and try participating in programming, hacking, or gaming groups. Prepare to be covered in drool, get lectur

by api 5y ago

If you doubt this, create an alt with a woman's name and try participating in programming, hacking, or gaming groups. Prepare to be covered in drool, get lectured condescendingly, and get lots of dick pics.

belval 5y ago
One of these is not like the other. Programming and hacking are usually much more respectful groups than gaming. Gaming is a cesspool of edgy teenagers (hence people screaming the N-word in various lobbies) it's not really limited to women. That being said playing any FPS with voice chat as a girl/woman makes for a pitiful experience. My gf won't play Rainbow Six Siege anymore because she kept getting team killed for making callouts.
ggreer 5y ago
I have run this experiment in several communities, including Xbox Live (which is full of annoying teenagers). My experience wasn't much different from choosing my normal male-coded nicknames. Instead of assholes calling me, "fag", they called me "bitch". Also I got more comments related to sex instead of violence. I didn't keep track of actual numbers, but the amount of harassment and trolling I received felt about the same. Apparently a Pew poll came to similar conclusions. The only area in which women reported significantly worse harassment was regarding stalking. On the other hand, men were almost twice as likely to be physically threatened. It really seems like a wash to me.[1] 1. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/10/22/online-harassment/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/10/22/online-haras...
- emilfihlman 5y ago
  Yup. People are generally quite shitty, but not because of gender. That doesn't mean they won't use gendered language to be shitty (because that's a more natural way to be shitty), but it's about the same amount for both. There was a study, might have been Pew, but I can't find it.

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If you doubt this, create an alt with a woman's name and try participating in programming, hacking, or gaming groups. Prepare to be covered in drool, get lectur

by api 5y ago

belval 5y ago
One of these is not like the other. Programming and hacking are usually much more respectful groups than gaming. Gaming is a cesspool of edgy teenagers (hence people screaming the N-word in various lobbies) it's not really limited to women. That being said playing any FPS with voice chat as a girl/woman makes for a pitiful experience. My gf won't play Rainbow Six Siege anymore because she kept getting team killed for making callouts.
ggreer 5y ago
I have run this experiment in several communities, including Xbox Live (which is full of annoying teenagers). My experience wasn't much different from choosing my normal male-coded nicknames. Instead of assholes calling me, "fag", they called me "bitch". Also I got more comments related to sex instead of violence. I didn't keep track of actual numbers, but the amount of harassment and trolling I received felt about the same. Apparently a Pew poll came to similar conclusions. The only area in which women reported significantly worse harassment was regarding stalking. On the other hand, men were almost twice as likely to be physically threatened. It really seems like a wash to me.[1] 1. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/10/22/online-harassment/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/10/22/online-haras...
- emilfihlman 5y ago
  Yup. People are generally quite shitty, but not because of gender. That doesn't mean they won't use gendered language to be shitty (because that's a more natural way to be shitty), but it's about the same amount for both. There was a study, might have been Pew, but I can't find it.