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Even if that were 100% true, why does everyone* treat girls who do play videos so damned dismissively?
because: nerds[
Even if that were 100% true, why does everyone* treat girls who do play videos so damned dismissively?
As long as it still slices and dices, we can work with it.
Right man can take down the world with a pocket knife.
I admittedly wonder how many were just making flippant jokes, but then they have a terrible sense of humor instead. Plus it is that kind of joking and (lack of) thinking that contributes to the problem.
Right man can take down the world with a pocket knife.
i sure don't know a single girl who would even consider joining a videogame-centric forum, but i know about 20 guys who would.
the numbers that say "there are as many woman gamers as men" are wack. sure there are a lot of girls who play CoD because they're boyfriends got them into it, or maybe zelda because link is hot, but i have never met a girl who goes out of her way to be informed about video games the way men do. even gamer girls i've met online are never as informed as guys.how do we make gaming something that girls care about too
or
can we stop caring SO MUCH about video game politics?
Also, I'm curious as to the subsection of female gamers who think Link is hot. I wasn't aware that's a standard reason cited for women picking that game up.
She is our goddamned poster child.Holy fuck. I'm going to print this out for my friend who works as an assistant manager at Gamestop. She's probably going to lose her job because her boyfriend is a Manager at gamestop and her own store manager quit and instead of giving the store to her that she deserves, they're going to to have her boyfriend run both of the stores which either she can get transfered to another store (which the closest is in another county) or she can just quit because, fuck her. Never mind that she helped find the job initially for her boyfriend before they were dating, and once they started dating he had to transfer to the other store and he quickly got promoted, while she had to fight for three years as a regular GA to get promoted to assistant manager to where she was pretty much running the goddamn store because her boss was a lazy prick who never did any work.
I'm going to print this off, have her read it and it will make her fucking day. She already has to put up with "being in the shadow of her boyfriend" who now makes more money than her even though she's been working harder and longer than him. She'll read this and it will totally tickle her on how she only likes video games because link is hot or her boyfriend gets her interested in them.
Jesus christ dude.
Fun fact: When making OoT, one of the developers' wives asked why Nintendo never made any handsome male characters, hence the design of Adult Link.
It's another thing on my mental list that says Samus and Link are sides of the same coin.
That's pretty interesting. I think we could then make a lot out of the differences in character design between modern Link and modern Samus.
Where's my Zero Tunic Link???
Link doesn't even wear pants does he?
Case closed.
Right man can take down the world with a pocket knife.
Holy fuck. I'm going to print this out for my friend who works as an assistant manager at Gamestop. She's probably going to lose her job because her boyfriend is a Manager at gamestop and her own store manager quit and instead of giving the store to her that she deserves, they're going to to have her boyfriend run both of the stores which either she can get transfered to another store (which the closest is in another county) or she can just quit because, fuck her. Never mind that she helped find the job initially for her boyfriend before they were dating, and once they started dating he had to transfer to the other store and he quickly got promoted, while she had to fight for three years as a regular GA to get promoted to assistant manager to where she was pretty much running the goddamn store because her boss was a lazy prick who never did any work.
I'm going to print this off, have her read it and it will make her fucking day. She already has to put up with "being in the shadow of her boyfriend" who now makes more money than her even though she's been working harder and longer than him. She'll read this and it will totally tickle her on how she only likes video games because link is hot or her boyfriend gets her interested in them.
Jesus christ dude.
Only Young Link doesn't wear pants. Doesn't count.
I think another part of the issue is how it seems males are treated as being capable of holding any variation or combination of views and likes/dislikes, in other words as individual persons.
But when women are discussed, it seems they are often treated like something on discovery channel, mysterious creatures with a set package of behaviours and likes/dislikes that are observed based on a few anecdotal cases expanded onto a whole population. In other words, not like individual persons.
Pantsless link WiiU confirmed.
I'll be honest I enjoy my eye candy, but there's times when I get REAAALY pissed off when they try to fuck up something I ready like. Case in point:
Look what they did to my Catherine the Great.
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She went from stylish, authoritave, and strong to this bullshit in Civ Revolutions:
Gee I wonder what her greatest "asset" is here. ::roll eyes::
(sorry for some reason IMGUR stopped working at work, I'll edit it when I get back home go google Catherine the Great for Civ Rev, its ridiculous)
It's even worse what they did to Cleopatra. So yeah, I can see women givng a :| look to a lot of this.
I like CivRev.![]()
Civ Rev is for girls. They give you a free nuke for shits and giggles. GURL MODE.
Must be why I like it so much! Girls love nukes, after all.
I'm sorry. That's really shitty of us. We'll try harder to be homogenous.Wait, not every woman is like each other? The fuck? How else am I going to marginalize them!?
I like Civ anything. But concur on the tittyfication. GD ridiculous.I like CivRev.![]()
I'm sorry. That's really shitty of us. We'll try harder to be homogenous.
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Already in and making applesauce. BE JEALOUS, GAF.Damn straight, all I know about women is they make the food and poop out the babies. Anything else scares me! Get back in the kitchen!
I donno about how it is in here, but when a woman in real life starts talking to me about say the MGS series, I freak out, get excited like a puppy and that conversation will go on for good two hours. Bottom line; I'm always excited about a woman talking about one of my favorite hobbies, and I'm always very careful to not undermine their knowledge in the subject, I try not to disagree with their opinions on games, but when I really have to, I do it very cautiously, without making them feel like their point is useless etc.I don't think it's that women don't want to talk about games, I think it's more so that guys exclude them from conversation.
A bit late here, but this is one of the weirdest and most pathetic phenomenon on GAF. The absolute saltiness is incredible especially considering Devo knows her shit. Hell, I've gone into threads about sexism, racism, or homophobia ready to throw down, but I see that Devo has already said what I wanted to say, better than I was going to so I just nod and leave.I tend to be defensive of Devo, even though she doesn't need it, because people often jump into threads she is posting in just to snipe at her or get a shot at her and score points. Which is kinda what you were doing. Kudos to you for not just sniping and leaving, but it happens CONSTANTLY. If you feel like people are picking apart what you say, watch how people respond to her in pretty much everything she does.
The Jennifer Lawrence thread yesterday...the very first post. I ended up not posting there even though I think she's awesome and I love her healthy self-esteem. But, a bunch of guys decided that she's fat and should diet no matter what she thinks. Others feel she looks great and express that by informing us graphically what exactly they think they would do to her if they ever met. I thought the point of the thread was to discuss a young, attractive, talented actress who is successful without having to starve herself to be marketable.Funny about this thread, I was reading a topic in the OT section of this forum recently about a female artist. The comments on the entire first page were without exception sleazy, degrading comments about ogling her or having sex with her. It really struck me then how uninviting that must be for a woman on this website, to be bombarded with either subtle or often blatant sexism. And neogaf is one of the better ones!
I imagine it must get very tiring for a lot of women in all kinds of situations, but it's the dehumanization that's the worst. Even if it isn't hostile, it's saying that women aren't worth treating like real people. Ever since then, whenever I read a thread about a new song by a female artist and the first post is 'would' my skin crawls and I feel ashamed for my gender.
Right man can take down the world with a pocket knife.
Already in and making applesauce. BE JEALOUS, GAF.
I had a friend who used to say, "I may not be able to reach the end but I can sure bang the hell out of the sides."
Too late I already did with all the goddamned apple picking my wife made me er that I graciously agreed to do with her last weekend. It was totally not a waste of time![]()
(my wife don't even like apples :| )
Funny about this thread, I was reading a topic in the OT section of this forum recently about a female artist. The comments on the entire first page were without exception sleazy, degrading comments about ogling her or having sex with her. It really struck me then how uninviting that must be for a woman on this website, to be bombarded with either subtle or often blatant sexism. And neogaf is one of the better ones!
I imagine it must get very tiring for a lot of women in all kinds of situations, but it's the dehumanization that's the worst. Even if it isn't hostile, it's saying that women aren't worth treating like real people. Ever since then, whenever I read a thread about a new song by a female artist and the first post is 'would' my skin crawls and I feel ashamed for my gender.
For a second, I thought you were maybe my husband in a clever half-Asian disguise, because we went last weekend, but that fizzled quickly on account of I'm a reasonable goddamn simian who likes apples.
but becoming a parent has really brought home to me the things I hadn't thought of before, like how affected men are by what society tells them.
I wonder if it would be useful to anyone if we complied links to resources or books to learn more about such issues. Although it's pretty rare that people come into these kinds of threads asking directly: "Where can I learn about this?" and when it does happen it's more: "Where's there evidence of this?" so maybe framing it both ways? I don't know how interested people would be in something like that.And I'm not trying to be an apologist, and say that's okay, but I understand it and I think there are big, overriding issues we need to work to counter. I just wish I knew more and better solutions for that.
One the things that always drove me mad back in the day when I was playing magic was not just the treatment of women in general, but the fact that everyone automatically assumed I was stupid as a box of rocks because I was a reasonably attractive, ethnic looking woman. People would look at me like I was lost. I was ridiculous.
It's to the point that like Monkey, I am glad I've aged and gotten a bit softer in places because people aren't questioning my intelligence as much just looking at me.
Yeah, I don't get the outright antagonism. However the numbers get divided or whatever that still doesn't really change the fact everyone's an individual, nevermind that a low percentage of people still means those people exist, it's not like a winner take all election or something. Nevermind that even if the interest is very casual it's not going to help anyone to be dismissive of the person who just wants to play a little bit of whatever new game hits.Okay, so we've moved on from 'lol more boys play games than girls, obviously'
Even if that were 100% true, why does everyone* treat girls who do play videos so damned dismissively? Any mention of girls playing games elicits this knee jerk, defensive response about how they aren't really playing 'games', they are only playing because their boyfriends/husbands play, or they are just doing it for attention. With that in mind, it's not a big leap as to why there aren't more women on a video gaming forum.
*everyone in the sense that a mere mention of 40% of subscribers to XBox live being female elicits pages of these responses, along with the normal, not assholey responses.
That's what I was trying to get at, kind of like when using homosexual slurs without actual antagonistic intent to homosexuals can still do damage just by keeping those words in vogue, at least so long as they're actually meant harmfully (why queer sort of became irrelevant there I imagine, it's STILL used normally at times and seems to have been co-opted as a mundane descriptor.) I imagine quite a few of those legitimately aren't homophobic, but it's still cultivating an unnecessarily negative atmosphere.The problem with flippant jokes is rather like the problem with flippant "would/would not bang" comments. On any one individual level there's perhaps nothing to criticize too deeply because they're, well, flippant, but when they form an undercurrent of discussion it means that they're speaking to some concept running through the zeitgeist.
I had had enough when I saw the "would plant my seed in her" post. I guess that could be intended as a form of admiration but it's a really creepy, fucked way of doing so.More on topic, that Jennifer Lawrence thread was a trainwreck.
I think another part of the issue is how it seems males are treated as being capable of holding any variation or combination of views and likes/dislikes, in other words as individual persons.
But when women are discussed, it seems they are often treated like something on discovery channel, mysterious creatures with a set package of behaviours and likes/dislikes that are observed based on a few anecdotal cases expanded onto a whole population. In other words, not like individual persons.
I had had enough when I saw the "would plant my seed in her" post. I guess that could be intended as a form of admiration but it's a really creepy, fucked way of doing so.
No one has said that the alienating environment is the sole or major reason for why it's so predominately male, just that it accounts for a reason why the women who would otherwise be interested in discussing video games (and yes they exist, not to the extent where they would probably become the majority in a forum such as this one, but they're out there on other websites and irl) are choosing not to. Hell, you've had a majority of the women posting in this thread talk about how the alienation keeps them from posting in certain topics or had kept them from posting entirely.I disagree with the level of emphasis people put on NeoGAF's environment as a reason for the differences in gender. I'm especially unimpressed with how people want rebuke "it is a videogame forum" with "the actual reason is because people say 'it is a videogame forum" or some other way to say "this very thread proves why", more or less dismissing the idea that a videogame forum - especially a generalized videogame forum that isn't based on a single franchise/genre that can be shown to be more equalized - having more males isn't to be expected. That's not to say NeoGAF can't and won't scare off some female gamers of various beliefs and tolerances, but I just don't see that being the strongest reason by a long shot. It is a leap of logic that doesn't quite quell what is such an obvious answer (a lot more male gaming enthusiasts), using the fact the answer is treated as obvious as a counter-argument isn't much of one alone. I can't help but wonder this: NeoGAF tries enough to the point that I would question if every other major site with more equal populations (and this includes the lightly moderated social media) is more welcoming or even a quarter as much as GAF in some cases. I don't see a hypothetical where the mods go all-out and delete/ban every source of negative feelings concerning women and women gamers come pouring in to extent that proves this is actually a deciding factor.
Note this is entirely separate from the idea that GAF can't or shouldn't improve.
No one has said that the alienating environment is the sole or major reason for why it's so predominately male, just that it accounts for a reason why the women who would otherwise be interested in discussing video games (and yes they exist, not to the extent where they would probably become the majority in a forum such as this one, but they're out there on other websites and irl) are choosing not to. Hell, you've had a majority of the women posting in this thread talk about how the alienation keeps them from posting in certain topics or had kept them from posting entirely.
People are getting frustrated with those that post: "Because it's a video game forum" since that was discussed pages ago and we moved on.
I think that was 100% tongue in cheek, like how teenage girls say they want to have Liam Payne's children.
I will seed my child in this woman, one day. Just you wait, Jennifer Lawrence. Just you wait.
i sure don't know a single girl who would even consider joining a videogame-centric forum, but i know about 20 guys who would.
the numbers that say "there are as many woman gamers as men" are wack. sure there are a lot of girls who play CoD because they're boyfriends got them into it
or maybe zelda because link is hot
but i have never met a girl who goes out of her way to be informed about video games the way men do. even gamer girls i've met online are never as informed as guys.
can we stop caring SO MUCH about video game politics? i'm not sure if it turns girls away, how much video game dudes get into console wars and "he said this" or "press release vaguely says thing that might be bad" but i sure am super apathetic to anything of the sort
i think girls might not be so grossed out by us
rock stars can attract the ladies to music, cool gaming dudes who aren't losers might be able to attract girls to video games a Tiny Bit More
Which Batman game and character is this?And men can't play game solely because of sexy women in it? Look at the dudes that don't want to play the new Batman because a single female character in it isn't their idea of fap material.