I never understood this mentality, myself.
Gamers: "I never get laid... π©"
Also Gamers: "Women are just kitchen accessories."
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because you think of "I never get laid" as a normal human need to connect with another person, which is what it is but they're too deep in misogyny to realize it. instead to them getting laid is a quest to complete and it involves a quest item known as a woman, not a character. so I never get laid has less of an undertone of "why can't I connect with a woman" and more of "when will we get our government mandated sex slaves"
I can buy a new toaster from the shop, why can't I buy a woman too? Does this mean Gamers are pro sex-work? Or pro indentured servitude for women more likely..
You cant pirate pussy, and we all know how gamers feel about subscription models.
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I am in mad love with this Darmok-ass comment.
Damon's Gatsby, his glass raised
Damon? Do you mean Dicaprio?
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I get the meme, but I don't know how to apply it to this post.
Could someone elaborate?
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The line at the bottom, the reply to the wall of text
"Noted. misogyny is a skill issue"
always has been
Ahh, ok. Thanks. Was focusing on the body/paragraph of the text.
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"but behaved more submissively towards players with a male voice" I want to know what they mean by submissive
They were less confrontational and more likely to accept direction
"Given the chance, they would definitely lock lips with the dominant male"
:D
This is part of why confidence is attractive.
It isn't that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it's that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.
Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.
EvoPsych?
Evolutionary psychology. I think thereβs real research in the field, but itβs drowned out by charlatans who invoke its name to lend credence to their made-up bullshit without the burden of scientific rigour.
That summary may also explain why some men are so insecure about women earning more money than them too.
work to improve the skill gap or draw 20
acknowledge that one singular woman is currently better than you at this one particular skill or draw 20
man it's like there are options that don't involve aggression towards another person for⦠not being bad at a video game
I count myself lucky the men I know in real life are chill, and that I am not too interested in PvP games, scared off by the constant reinforcement from stories online that someone will be shitty to me because I am a woman. When I did play TF2 it was always pubs mic off and with a very gender-neutral username.
Thatβs an interesting study. It makes sense that dominance-seeking behavior follows a βlow-risk, high-rewardβ strategy across species. The connection between status, objectification, and primate behavior is fascinating Morse Code Translatorβwonder if similar patterns appear in different cultural contexts.
Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.
I have ~10k hours in counterstrike across multi game versions and accounts. I noticed a similar thing over my years. The players doing well in a match were often neutral towards gamer girls, but the guy having a shit match would be the fastest sack of shit every time. Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.
Obviously there are always exceptions to any rules but in my anecdotal experience the guys who were confident in their abilities didn't care about women but losers would attack them just for speaking.
Can we see the study ?? Let's see how credible it is
Not the actual paper but here ya go
So no citations & only a mere opinion ? So it's clear as day then. It's a misandric hit-piece (off course it's from BBC)
WTF? Go and spend a day in the big wide world.
In the 90s I watched something and there was a woman that was becoming a fairly competent go cart racer, she quit cause the men she was competing against couldnβt stand βlosing to a girlβ and got quite nasty about. This wonβt be a credible source though, will it?
Of course not. Especially with supportive people like you
Since we are talking about the real world; did you deliberately omit the fact that men playing video-games are called pathetic & deadbeat losers regardless of whether they're champions or not ?
So that makes it okay to shit on women in games? Go cope elsewhere, incel.
Men get shat on as well but, I guess we are n9t going to address that huh, if you're going to virtue-signal as an Egalitarian, then act the part
& ah the incel slur, what are you ?? A sex-obsessed creep ?
Should I be worried about your mental well-being ?
Take your mask off and see what happens, incel. It's always the same fucking formula, go and whine about your own tiny little insecurities every single time anything about women's experience is highlighted.
You'd find something between your ribs irl real quick if you took off your mask around the people in your life and they found out how incapable you are of even reading about half the population of the Earth's perspective without self inserting your pathetic insecurities.
Just seen your edit. Before I answer this question, are you seriously asking to be judged fairly after judging others unfairly?
You'll need an audience with a much larger inferiority complex if you want that sort of claim to resonate.
Why should one need an audience for that claim, when the evidence is right there on the internet & IRL
Politicizing games is so incredibly tiresome.
this literally has nothing to do with the game itself. it's about behavior towards other people, which is intently political.
also video games are art which makes them political as well.
the fact that you kneejerked into this reaction feels super insecure and reactionary.
More like I'm just sick of people hijacking my favorite art form to express political/social issues or sexual fetishes, both of which are becoming too common. It's exactly why I've grown more and more in favor of retro gaming, back when neither of those expressions were anything but a fringe group of miserable individuals and weirdos that most gamers ignored. Not going to argue further, I've spoken my piece.