"I have gamed from childhood through adulthood and never ONCE have I seen a woman be excluded from our groups or treated as inferior. In fact, when the Wii came

"I have gamed from childhood through adulthood and never ONCE have I seen a woman be excluded from our groups or treated as inferior. In fact, when the Wii came out, most of the 'Party-style' group games had a lot of couples playing. When I've been to the Final Fantasy Music concerts, I would say it's at least 30-40% women. These are only my anecdotes and I don't work in the gaming industry." - Shinkei, somebody who's had good experiences gaming "[In response to the question, 'Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harrassment?'] You can't. You can't because they're one and the same thing. This is a community that's, you know, 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it's not the fighting game community—it's StarCraft. There's nothing wrong with StarCraft if you enjoy it, and there's nothing wrong with anything about eSports, but why would you want just one flavor of ice cream, you know? There's eSports for people who like eSports, and there's fighting games for people who like spicy food and like to have fun. There's no reason to turn them into the same thing, you know?" - Aris Bakhtanians, FCG commentator and player, somebody who creates bad experiences gaming. It's wonderful that you haven't seen it, and I'm very happy for you. But people in video gaming communities say pretty gross things about women, and it's been happening for a while. That particular quote is from 2012. Later in the conversation, somebody asked Aris if shouting "Rape that bitch" is an acceptable thing to do during a tournament. Take a moment to consider how you would answer that question. Aris's answer was "Look, man. What is unacceptable about that? There's nothing unacceptable about that. These are people, we're in America, man, this isn't North Korea. We can say what we want. People get emotional." But hey, that's great that your friends don't exclude women from your groups. It's too bad more people aren't like you, that's all.