Poll: Be honest, do you actually treat girl gamers the same online? (Minor update)

[DementedSheep]

I am a female gamer so I don't treat other female gamers differently as far as I?m aware. Most guys in online games are fine. There are some girls who have the perception that all gamer guys are sexist, childish and will scream "get back to the kitchen" and "tits or GTFO" at you as soon as they realise you female but that?s not true. As always the stupidest are the loudest and the most memorable, there always seems to be 1 in every group that kills the fun and some of these girls just can't handle ribbing at all.

I generally don't say what gender I am when I'm playing online. It doesn?t come up, why would you announce this fact for no reason? I don't have to deal with gender issues most of time. I say what gender I am on here because threads like this pop up allot. I don't use mic and if I asked I don?t always tell the truth, it depends on what I'm playing and who I'm talking to. I'm more cautious now than I used to be because I have run into "RAGHHH All I know about you is that your female but I love you and if you don't date me I'll commit suicide!" types 3 times online now as well as a fair few guys who send you random friend request, want to date and won't leave you alone and while I know 90% of guys won?t do this I don't want to fucking deal with that again.

Although about the get back to the kitchen jokes. I hear allot of complaints about those "stupid feminazis" who overact and rip peoples head off every time someone says a single get back to the kitchen joke. "It?s just a joke right?" Well, it is an overreactions and there are better way to handle it but bear in mind that to you it was one back to the kitchen joke. For her it might have been 10th that day. Its more overused than fucking portal memes and it?s not just games you get this from. I actually use to find that joke funny but when you get it all the time and you are dealing with wankers who actually do have that I attitude in real life it stops being funny. I have be in really really bad mood to get pissed over that joke and I usually keep that to myself or shrug it off with another joke but it can get annoying.

 

[ladubois]

No, but here's the thing. Online, I treat everyone the same except my friends. Basically, I'm blind to gender there, and at least part of it is due to the fact that I don't know whether or not a player really is female - note though, that I consider cross-gender RPing perfectly acceptable as long as it is done maturely.

In real life, I usually go "Really? You game? ...Huh." And that is usually the extent of how I treat female gamers differently from male ones.

 

[SckizoBoy]

There are only two types of online-gamers (given the type of online-gaming I indulge in):

1. The type that knows how to point the barrel of a gun in the right direction.

&

2. The type that doesn't.

Gender = irrelevant

 

[Bambi On Toast]

I think your experience on Halo was a rare occasion.

Haha. Hah. I take it you haven't played Halo much?

As much as I enjoy the game the stereotypes about XBL players mostly stem from the Halo player base.

Well, I played Halo 3 for about 2 years after it came out. I stopped playing online games for a while then so I have no idea what it's like at the moment.

In my few years of playing Halo 3 online, I don't think I've ever seen or heard a girl gamer playing. So I've never heard any sexist comments while playing Halo, but I agree that the majority of Halo players are immature retards.

 

[imnot]

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.

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"?

She is pretty good at it, and I always ru nahead, I hate staying still to long and hunters are like, my arch enemys, I can empty 10 shotgun rounds into the air if I even hear one XD

 

[A. Manslayer]

Ye, yes I do, unless they start with some kind of feminism bullshit, in which case i resort to sarcasm and trolling, like with all idiot extermists.
Thats right, it just got real in here: feminists, you belong right there with male sexists, racists and christians.

 

[thetruefallen]

The only serious gamer-girl i have ever met is my girlfriend (its just as awesome as i always imagined btw ) and when playing co-op or multiplayer games with her i will give her the choice of difficulty or game type as opposed to playing with my male friends when i always set the difficulty to hard+.

i also modify my language, don't swear so much when playing with her, i don't play with a head set so the only people who know i hate other players are in the same room as me.

so no, i don't treat them the same, i at least put up the pretense that I'm a gentleman.

 

[Jonluw]

I mute everyone as soon as I enter the lobby; so I wouldn't know.
I guess, technically, you could say I treat all gamers the same.

 

[Darius Brogan]

I answered 'no'. Why? Because I don't treat them the same, I treat them better.

Why do I do that? Simple, because in all my online experience, I've met two (2) girl gamers who were not better gamers than either myself, or the people I was playing with at the time.

One was 7 years old and had picked up her dads controller while he was busy, so my brother and I taught her how to play CoD on the fly, and the other had never played it before either.

Other than that, every girl gamer I've met until now has been better than the guy gamers I'd been playing with/against all day, so I treat them with more respect, given that they've obviously got skill.

 

[Sansha]

I don't look at gender as a person's characteristic. I see men and women as identical humans, and that their capabilities and personalities come from who they are as a person, not what joybits they were born with.

That said, how women are treated in online games is appalling. It comes back to the GIFT(Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory), and I don't think anything sexist said is sincerely hateful, rather a pack of idiots thinking they're funny and edgy.

 

[Pegghead]

To be honest, I can only think of a handful of female gamers that actually made it clear they were female (let's face it, do any of you guys have gamer-tags that scream masculinity).

There's a DOD server I frequent which is made up of older gamers, so it's pretty level-headed. I used to play Left 4 Dead with these three other Aussies all the time (a bit of a splat pack, if you will) and the girl there we'd like to think we treated the same (it was a bit undeniable, she'd go on about the boomer being cut and occasionally sing, and I'm pretty sure one of the guys had a crush on her...good times). I once played CS: Source on a server where some girl had made it pretty damn known that she was female, and all she did was feed the trolls, getting whinier and whinier as the woman jokes piled higher and higher.

 

[Sentox6]

In my few years of playing Halo 3 online, I don't think I've ever seen or heard a girl gamer playing. So I've never heard any sexist comments while playing Halo, but I agree that the majority of Halo players are immature retards.

I've come across a few in my time, and the reactions are about what you'd expect.

Still, one time I 'betrayed' a teammate (they ran across my sniper reticle just as I was pulling the trigger) and this female voice that I'd judge to be 13 or so bursts across my headset and starts swearing up a storm at me.

 

[MorsePacific]

The only game I ever play online is Left 4 Dead and since a majority of people have stopped using microphones, I never pay attention to genders. So yes, I do. I'm just as likely to choke a guy out as a smoker as I am a girl.

 

[chowderface]

More of my friends are girls than dudes, so I would have to say that yes, I afford female gamers the same respect as male ones.

That is to say, I make fun of them routinely and if I have an offensive joke I save it for whoever fits into the demographic it offends (most of my friends get that "it is racist" is the punchline anyway).

 

[-Samurai-]

Yep, they get muted and shot the same as everyone else. I don't normally even read the names of the other people in the lobby. I just mute and shoot.

Mic? Muted. No mic? Muted.

Mute. And. Shoot.
[small]I'm kinda liking how that sounds.[/small]

 

[Kae]

No, I treat them more politely than men, but I also do that in real life because that was how I was raised.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I rarely play online, but if I did, I would.

 

[wolfcrux]

Ofcourse I treat women different from men. People online are still real people so them being male or female factors in to how I approach and interact with them.

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

When I play online and a girl shows up I usually do one of two thigns

A: Forget they exist (No Mic or Chat)

B: Try to get them or someone on my team to switch to Medic for FUCK'S SAKE.

 

[ImBigBob]

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I played video games with a girl. Unless you're talking about Rock Band at some party, which I highly doubt that counts.