Poll: Be honest, do you actually treat girl gamers the same online? (Minor update)
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Not in particular. I may tend to be slightly more polite but thats mostly habit from my upbringing. Other than that though I really don't do anything different, if they act like somebody they get treated as such, and if they don't act like somebody I offer no respect.
Tell you what--you can keep your neurotic, swear-obsessed children, I'll take my fun with the guys and girls who can speak in a reasonable octave without resorting to a sentence with a higher obscenity density than a terrible rap album. Cheers!Zachary Amaranth said:
No. No I do NOT treat girl gamers the same I do men. I'll explain why; first off I treat everyone as a gamer. I game, you game. . . let's all game together. If I am playing a game with mostly all (or all) males then I usually throw on some extra thick skin and prepare for some verbal abuse. Don't get me wrong, I love a game with some great smack talk! It's all part of the fun in my mind. Now, if I am playing a game with someone that I KNOW is a girl then I will automatically screen my language until I can get a feel for just how far she thinks a joke can go before it gets out of line.
I'd like to say that I do this out of respect, but I really don't. I do it for the love of a game. Nothing breaks the flow of a great gaming session then having people just fighting with each other while our objective is lost in a sea of "he said, she said."
I know that it sounds like I automatically profile a person based on sex and to an extent that is true. As a girl gamer myself I tend to be a little harder on my own sex at times, but I do that really out of love. The more relaxed women feel with gaming then more of them will start gaming. And in my mind the more followers this media has the better. Games are our future and I want that future populated with as many people as possible, be that man, woman or mutated space monkeys.
I'd like to say that I do this out of respect, but I really don't. I do it for the love of a game. Nothing breaks the flow of a great gaming session then having people just fighting with each other while our objective is lost in a sea of "he said, she said."
I know that it sounds like I automatically profile a person based on sex and to an extent that is true. As a girl gamer myself I tend to be a little harder on my own sex at times, but I do that really out of love. The more relaxed women feel with gaming then more of them will start gaming. And in my mind the more followers this media has the better. Games are our future and I want that future populated with as many people as possible, be that man, woman or mutated space monkeys.
I figured it was form that when you said race car bed XDAerosteam 1908 said:Funny thing, I had a tab open to their channel when I found this message... GG FTW! Long live Ladies Man!GZGoten said:HEY I LIKE GOODGRIEF VIDEOS TOO
man I wish I could play against those guys at least once, Get Humiliated and Sean Connery Plays... are awesome
Y'know, the best L4D players always seem to be girls. Maybe the lack of typical male ego stops them from running off like an idiot to get hunter pounced because "they got dis"?imnotparanoid said:Well I cant say I have seen any, although I think I play l4D with one fairly often.
I never actually asked though XD I dont want to seem rude
So yeah I guess I treat them the same. Not sure why I wouldnt.
Anyway, if anything, I'm a little suspicious. Things I'm careful about are hipster girl gamers, and fake girl gamers. Hipster girl gamers are only playing because apparently, it's not mainstream for girls to play games. The sort of people who say angry birds is hardcore gaming (nothing wrong with angry birds, but that's just plain incorrect). Annoying at worst. Fake girl gamers are worse. They expect special treatment from boys for being a girl gamer, basically an emotional con artist.
Though, and PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE FLAMING ME: these people are the minority of girl gamers, but they still annoy and unnerve me. The rest of girl gamers are fine, and I respect them for braving the cruel and often misogynistic (sp?) world of online gaming, and not giving a damn. After all, nothing is more satisfying or funny than watching a twelve year old who keeps asking for nude pics of a girl gamer get completely obliterated by said girl gamer, and then listening to his cries of "HAX!". The pure essence of justice and hilarity mixed in a delicious cocktail.
Yup. Don't pay any attention to gender. If I'm a sniper, that's my job- I kill all threats to my person, and to my team.
Besides, female gamers *are* the same as the guys, online. They can spew racial epithets with the best of them, and, similarly, can tend towards irrational homophobia.
Besides, female gamers *are* the same as the guys, online. They can spew racial epithets with the best of them, and, similarly, can tend towards irrational homophobia.
My thoughts on girl gamers, pre-teen gamers, 'internet tough guy' gamers, casual gamers, and the wide spectra of stereotypes present online can be summed up thusly: they're all worth the same when I kill them.
I routinely get my ass stomped by girl gamers in L4D versus, so I can attest to them being badasses.
As for how I treat them? I treat them like everyone else. Nice until they start shit talking me in the lobby. Then I'll make their life a living hell for the next hour as we play together.
As for little kids (like the one you described) I have NO patience when it comes to 11 year old children screeching in my ear things like "suck my dick *****!" THAT makes me go ballistic.
Girl gamers though? I treat them fair.
As for how I treat them? I treat them like everyone else. Nice until they start shit talking me in the lobby. Then I'll make their life a living hell for the next hour as we play together.
As for little kids (like the one you described) I have NO patience when it comes to 11 year old children screeching in my ear things like "suck my dick *****!" THAT makes me go ballistic.
Girl gamers though? I treat them fair.
I don't play multiplayer games with people who are not my friends.
Once they are my friends, they aren't in the boy/girl categorisation anymore. They have this sticky label (named freind) on them that makes their gender unimportant und undiscernable.
And while reading this post:
Once they are my friends, they aren't in the boy/girl categorisation anymore. They have this sticky label (named freind) on them that makes their gender unimportant und undiscernable.
And while reading this post:
I find it very discriminating that male players don't get invited out for a date, or friendship requests or sexist messages by the gamergirls. That isn't fair at all. Men deserve (and crave) for that sort of attention to. It's not that I don't get enough of those messages (on those social network sites mind you), it's just that the other guys out there deserve them too.Creator002 said:
Why not?Aerosteam 1908 said:
Personally, I've never understood the prevalence of bigotry and arch-conservatism in the gaming community. We slay dragons, cast spells, and demand/celebrate homosexual options for our characters, yet we name our characters "IPwnFags" and talk shit to women playing online. Am I the only one that this makes NO sense to?
I've learned that it's hard to see past how I want to see myself to see myself as I really am, and since I want to see myself as an enlightened, sensitive man I understand that I could be diminishing my own errors to see myself as a better person. But having said that, it's unlikely I've been messaging "Show me your tits!" and blocking out the memories.
As other guys have admitted, I've played female characters online several times, so I've seen how men treat you if you appear to be female. Most guys are alright, but it's not always pleasant. If didn't know I could log out into my male body at any time I could imagine getting quite peeved. It's obvious that most guys won't engage in this behavior, but only a few guys need to shit in the girls' pool to make the experience quite unpleasant.
As other guys have admitted, I've played female characters online several times, so I've seen how men treat you if you appear to be female. Most guys are alright, but it's not always pleasant. If didn't know I could log out into my male body at any time I could imagine getting quite peeved. It's obvious that most guys won't engage in this behavior, but only a few guys need to shit in the girls' pool to make the experience quite unpleasant.
