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The entire OP is anecdote. I'm a gamer. I'm in a guild. We have female members. We all, regardless of gender, have at some point been the target of idiots tryi
by mynameismonkey 13y ago
The entire OP is anecdote.
I'm a gamer. I'm in a guild. We have female members. We all, regardless of gender, have at some point been the target of idiots trying to bully. While it is impossible to deny the existence of the cesspit, I take umbrage at it being perceived as the majority of we gamers. It is a problem, yes. But please don't lump me and my entire guild into the same bucket.
- pyrocat 13y agoUh, no one is? The article is very clear about who the problem is.
- transitionality 13y agoYes. It's also wrong. The article itself is the problem, and so are you.
- pyrocat 13y agoI'd love to hear your reasoning.
- transitionality 13y agoIt's unsubstantiated, unreasoned, unjustifiable hate speech. And you're perpetrating the exact same kind of hate with shameless lies and more hate speech. This shit has no place on this site. Get out.
- pyrocat 13y agoI think you should look up the definition of hate speech.
- transitionality 13y agoYou need to stop using hate speech.
- mynameismonkey 13y ago"The gaming world is a cesspit of maladjusted, comically aggressive, emotionally (and maybe actually) adolescent males who have a deep fear and distrust of women. The problematic gamers are, naturally, almost exclusively male – and no doubt skew towards the young side. No-one’s surprised by that. I’m not surprised." We have such members. We expect them to abide by our clearly written community standards. We are gamers. They are gamers. We act as a community, which involves not leaving everyone to fend for themselves as an individual. "The gaming world is a cesspit of maladjusted, comically aggressive, emotionally (and maybe actually) adolescent males" Sure, the preceding paragraph makes a pass at placing this in context, but this is clearly baiting language. And the problem is apparently so bad that OP doesn't want to even be called a gamer, lest he be lumped in with this cesspit. Again. For the record. I am a gamer. I'm a lot of other things, too. But I'm a gamer, and so are my slightly maladjusted male and female compatriot guildmates. The biggest problem I see here is parents letting children play M-rated games. Anecdotally, and with no facts whatsoever to support my theory, I believe this would remove 90% of the problem.
- ceol 13y agoJudging by the comments in this thread, it's not a problem with parents letting children play video games. It's a very real problem with adult men.