Ladies: How often do guys hit on you online?
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I... I flirt with girls online. I know I'm not a lady and so not supposed to be in this thread but still.
I'm helpless against it, if there is a girl I meet with for the first time I will naturally flirt with her unless I'm completely unattracted to her and uninterested by her personality, whether it be online or in the flesh. I just don't know how else to talk to girls and flirting is usually pretty harmless. Then again I flirt with most of the male friends I have as well and I have absolutely no interest in them.
Is there a big difference between flirtation and hitting on, because I certainly wouldn't say I hit on girls online.
I'm helpless against it, if there is a girl I meet with for the first time I will naturally flirt with her unless I'm completely unattracted to her and uninterested by her personality, whether it be online or in the flesh. I just don't know how else to talk to girls and flirting is usually pretty harmless. Then again I flirt with most of the male friends I have as well and I have absolutely no interest in them.
Is there a big difference between flirtation and hitting on, because I certainly wouldn't say I hit on girls online.
This is not a gaming exclusive phenomenon , oft when I go out down the pub with one of my friends. She gets hit on a lot while I am talking to her and it is a lot more creepy often than when we are gaming (we are 19, the people hitting on her at pub are 30-45).
I used to really want to play online games. Then I thought of all the horror stories I heard about having an obviously female username from my friends and decided I wasn't interested.
The newest number I've heard is that something like 40% of gamers are female. Yet as far as I know there are few safe spaces for them. None of my fellow gamers participate in forums because what a hive of sexism and male privilege they are (here included, sorry to say). I've been heavily warned off playing online FPSes because of how unbearable one of my friends found it.
If anyone hit on me while I played a game, I'd fucking ragequit. I am not there to flirt, I am not there to be your little insipid male fantasy, I am not there for the HURHUR GIRLS DON'T GAME jokes. Oh, look how clever you are, making light of the fact that despite being a sizable part of the audience, women are almost universally ignored and feel marginalized and objectified in gamer culture.
Newsflash: games are a form of escapism. I get enough marginalization in my day to day. Why you I subject myself to more in my favorite hobby?
I'll stick to single player, thanks.
The newest number I've heard is that something like 40% of gamers are female. Yet as far as I know there are few safe spaces for them. None of my fellow gamers participate in forums because what a hive of sexism and male privilege they are (here included, sorry to say). I've been heavily warned off playing online FPSes because of how unbearable one of my friends found it.
If anyone hit on me while I played a game, I'd fucking ragequit. I am not there to flirt, I am not there to be your little insipid male fantasy, I am not there for the HURHUR GIRLS DON'T GAME jokes. Oh, look how clever you are, making light of the fact that despite being a sizable part of the audience, women are almost universally ignored and feel marginalized and objectified in gamer culture.
Newsflash: games are a form of escapism. I get enough marginalization in my day to day. Why you I subject myself to more in my favorite hobby?
I'll stick to single player, thanks.
I remember playing APB (before it got shut down) and was in the social district. I forgot I had VOIP on, and a load of guys started crowding around me. I asked my boyfriend 'what the hell?'.
He was laughing saying I'd left VOIP on, so they all knew I was a real girl
Also when I was playing Left 4 Dead and a guy asked if he could 'spray his boomer bile on me'. Urgh.
He was laughing saying I'd left VOIP on, so they all knew I was a real girl
Also when I was playing Left 4 Dead and a guy asked if he could 'spray his boomer bile on me'. Urgh.
Well in fact I found my girlfriend on Gmod but I never hit on her other guys did but well the English accent is just to charming I imagine guess that?s why she picked me. The reason me and her click is because we both have things in common the main being video games and so this is why i think guys hit on girls in games because they are trying to find someone like them oh and i never hit on my girlfriend online she hit on me.
Think it's kinda weird. It's one thing to look for friends and maybe luck into finding a romantic relationship as well, I mean I know some people getting married this august who met in wow and have lived in different states for most of their relationship, but to actively seek one you have worse odds than real life. go join a club or something, u'll find a girl sooner.
Sheesh.
Come on girls, we're not that bad.
No-one I know or game with insults girls online, nor do they try to hit on them.
Come on girls, we're not that bad.
No-one I know or game with insults girls online, nor do they try to hit on them.
yeah 65 to 35 is still a huge gap. And as u mentioned girls not advertising the fact they're girls means an even bigger gap.Souplex said:
Coming from someone who is male: I really don't know what it is with this "ZOMG UR A GRL GRLS NEVR PLAI GAMESZ NAD ZOMFGlololo!!!!1ono11!" crap. Maybe I just live in an unusually high population density of game-playing females, but out of my gaming friends I would say it's about a 60/40 split (oh look, just what current statistics indicate).
Although a few of them are particularly hardcore FPS players, it's pretty funny to be playing a less intelligent shooter, hearing some dumbass make a comment about it, hearing the distant thud of a shotgun or rile, and promptly watching their head go rolling by the door I'm probably camping.
Although a few of them are particularly hardcore FPS players, it's pretty funny to be playing a less intelligent shooter, hearing some dumbass make a comment about it, hearing the distant thud of a shotgun or rile, and promptly watching their head go rolling by the door I'm probably camping.
Interestingly, my friend made female characters in MMOs and pretended to be a girl to get free shit. Then I started to do it after finding out that it WORKS. People really are desperate...Lagao said:
That is also my fantasy. Pretty much all I do is play video games (I also do things like hiking and canoeing, but those aren't the BIG thing that is gaming.)TStormer said:
If she wasn't a gamer girl, we would literally have nothing to do or talk about.
to be honest, if i'm not playing with friends or people my friends introduce me to i mute everyone immediately.. mainly because of the trolling and i can't stand all the swearing going on in most games. but also because i've had one too many creepy experiences that got pretty ugly.
I've never done online multiplayer. It's only if my picture is ever posted that I get hit on. Otherwise I'm left alone for the most part. I do notice that I get a LOT more attention from the online community than from IRL guys.
I don't suppose you ever stop and think about the implications of women feeling uncomfortable enough to go through all that just to avoid broadcasting their gender?the_green_dragon said: