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"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many
by manachar 11y ago
"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers."
What in this study suggested that?
The base study is very interesting, but basically seems to say that losers seek to make someone else feel bad so they look for an easy and lower status target.
Seems like it's not the video games as much as society and culture, with video games just being one of MANY places you can see this behavior.
For instance, domestic violence spikes among fans of the losing teams in NFL[1]
[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2009/11/illegal_contact.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...
- bradjohnson 11y agoHaven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
- Zikes 11y agoSarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
- pyre 11y agoWhy did you feel the need to reiterate the exact quote that the grandparent post quoted?
- Zikes 11y agoFor the same reason the grandparent post reiterated it: the readers downvoting the parent post seem to have missed it.
- bradjohnson 11y agoI got knee jerk downvoted for that so hard I have whiplash. I rtfa, it ignores anything else and pretends gamers exist in a vacuum.
- Zikes 11y agoIt's also much too narrowly scoped. Even if it were a random sampling across a variety of XBox Live games, it would still only be representative of XBox Live gamers, which is its own demographic.
- corysama 11y agoThe HN crowd tries to discourage sarcasm. It doesn't matter if you are correct if you are sarcastic about it. If you had started your comment with something like "The article implies" instead of "Haven't you heard?" you probably would have been upvoted.
- epistasis 11y agoNo, it doesn't say that. You are oversimplifying in order obfuscate and ignore what the article is actually saying. This is a very common sophistry tactic. You are lowering the level of discourse on HN by not attempting to fully understand what is being said.