Women of Norrath, what's your experience?

[Fame]

Tell it to someone who cares, I'll provide a list so you don't have to lift a finger, think of it as holding a door open for you or having a heart to heart with your dad and us deciding this would be best for you if that helps.
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[Faerie]

Originally Posted by Fame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tell it to someone who cares, I'll provide a list so you don't have to lift a finger, think of it as holding a door open for you or having a heart to heart with your dad and us deciding this would be best for you if that helps.

Who are you even talking to? :P

[JPMorgan]

Originally Posted by NachtMystium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrBoeMF4FYs

watch this and then look at the name of the person who created the video.
and that is their logic.

I think this sums up the biggest social obstacle for women who play video games in the year 2014.

[Fame]

Same person I've been trolling, I'm not much for masquerade.

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Faerie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sometimes now when I join an MMO, I don't tell anyone my RL gender.

I think I did that for 1.5 years here. It worked ok for awhile, but it backfired and ended up bringing more attention to my RL gender than I wanted. The are you female IRL question was so horribly awkward to deal with that I decided to dodge it all together. Unfortunately, that normally benign piece of information is step 1 to forming any meaningful connection between people. Know who you're dealing with. As people we're scripted to interact one way or the other, depending on gender. I kinda threw a wrench in that with my silence, but so does my answer lol.

[JPMorgan]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think I did that for 1.5 years here. It worked ok for awhile, As people we're scripted to interact one way or the other, depending on gender.

I'm curious to how saying you're a male to avoid unwanted attention directed towards your gender would effect this. I'm a man, but my chat box isn't filled with vulgar tells from other male players about stuff they wouldn't say in front of a woman. In fact, that sort of stuff is said way more often in public, or semi-public channels.

Does it mean that they just talk about sports, automobiles or some other stereotypical male driven interest? I care very little about either of those things, and again they never even come up.

The only scripted behaviors I could imagine that would flare up between opposite genders, that don't come up between two individuals of the same gender -- with the exception of the presence of homosexuality (which isn't a big deal) -- is romantic intimacy. If someone is crude then they will be crude, no matter what their audience's gender. I'm uncomfortable with certain topics, and I'll pull the conversation away from them. If you say you're a male in this context, then what you're really doing is making yourself gender neutral. It's similar to de Beauvoir's the other.

Again, it isn't really right that you should have to resort to this, but I don't see how lying about your gender would be anything but beneficial if you have no intent to instigate or reap any of the effects of being a woman in an environment filled with creepy sexists. I can see how it would be annoying. But, in the end, who cares: unless the point is to highlight the fact that you are a woman -- for the purpose of an equality crusade or otherwise.

[Fame]

Trolling aside, you're all elfs to me

[JPMorgan]

Originally Posted by Fame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trolling aside, you're all elfs to me

That's the ticket.

[applesauce25r624]

Originally Posted by Faerie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sometimes now when I join an MMO, I don't tell anyone my RL gender.

you mean sex

gender is a social construct

PS: can anybody name any females (sex, you jackasses) that have played at a highly competitive level in PVP in any MMO games?

changed back it to original post. fuck it. didn't realize that edit history is displayed.

when that guy was perving on your shoe size, can't you just say something like "size 15, i'll rip your dick off with my monster toes?"

use some imagination

[Ajkuhuun]

PS: can anybody name any females (sex, you jackasses) that have played at a highly competitive level in PVP in any MMO games?

http://www.twitch.tv/itshafu

World of Warcraft
1st - MLG Orlando 2008
1st - MLG Dallas 2008
1st - NA Blizzard Regionals 2008
3rd - Blizzcon 2008
3rd - ESL Leipzig 2008

Bloodline Champions
1st - Dreamhack Summer 2011

Female gamer Hafu wins MLG Orlando with Orz

when that guy was perving on your shoe size, can't you just say something like "size 15, i'll rip your dick off with my monster toes?"

And yeah, tried shit like that. Nothing helped, not even ignore. Douche just remade different toons. It's unfair to make this the stereotype though, there's fucking bug ass crazy people in each sex, this is just my "disturbing" story.