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#391
Mar 11 2017 12:40pm
Quote (duffman316 @ Mar 11 2017 11:24am)
while playing video games on the internet and correcting the misuse of pronouns i had my first encounter with misogyny in the online gaming community :o
http://i.imgur.com/qtOxsVq.jpg

this brings up the question, is there a problem with discrimination against women in the online gaming community? given that almost half of all gamers are female i'd like to think not but let's get some thoughts from our resident pardians


I don't think 50% of gamers across all games are female. Last I heard League was like 70-30?
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Mar 11 2017 12:44pm
Quote (BardOfXiix @ Mar 11 2017 01:40pm)
I don't think 50% of gamers across all games are female. Last I heard League was like 70-30?


its more of a 'females played candy crush, farmville or angry birds once' sort of statistic.
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Mar 11 2017 12:46pm
Quote (cambovenzi @ Mar 11 2017 11:44am)
its more of a 'females played candy crush, farmville or angry birds once' sort of statistic.


Sadly that's sort of what I was thinking. Video games vs "video games".
/e
That being said, some of my best female friends are hard core gamers.

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Mar 11 2017 01:15pm
Quote (BardOfXiix @ Mar 11 2017 01:46pm)
Sadly that's sort of what I was thinking. Video games vs "video games".
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That being said, some of my best female friends are hard core gamers.


My wife used to be a gamer. Now she just does Clash of Clans so not really. I miss playing actual video games with her though.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 11 2017 01:15pm
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Mar 11 2017 01:24pm
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My wife used to be a gamer. Now she just does Clash of Clans so not really. I miss playing actual video games with her though.


Get some co-op shooters on a console. That's a good thing to do together...like get the Halo Legacy thing with all the Halo games.
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#396
Mar 11 2017 01:30pm
Quote (BardOfXiix @ Mar 11 2017 02:24pm)
Get some co-op shooters on a console. That's a good thing to do together...like get the Halo Legacy thing with all the Halo games.


We have plenty of that....we even got two PS4s so we could play over PSN because nobody makes actual co-op games anymore. Destiny, Borderlands, GTA V, etc....they both just sit there unless the kids use them
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Mar 11 2017 02:38pm
Quote (Skinned @ Mar 11 2017 12:30pm)
We have plenty of that....we even got two PS4s so we could play over PSN because nobody makes actual co-op games anymore. Destiny, Borderlands, GTA V, etc....they both just sit there unless the kids use them


Make Thursday night family gaming night :> Get you and the wife and the kids together and shit around. Get one of those stupid twister spinners, give everyone a color and the winner of the spin picks the game.

Speaking of games, you know what should exist? Trivial Pursuit, Meme Edition.
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Mar 11 2017 11:59pm
Quote (cambovenzi @ Mar 11 2017 12:44pm)
its more of a 'females played candy crush, farmville or angry birds once' sort of statistic.


I've looked at a lot of these sex statistics in gaming out of curiosity and that tends to be how it goes down.

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Mar 12 2017 12:04am
Quote (BardOfXiix @ Mar 11 2017 12:46pm)
Sadly that's sort of what I was thinking. Video games vs "video games".
/e
That being said, some of my best female friends are hard core gamers.


Wish I had more female friends that were real gamers.

Quote (duffman316 @ Mar 11 2017 12:24pm)
while playing video games on the internet and correcting the misuse of pronouns i had my first encounter with misogyny in the online gaming community :o
http://i.imgur.com/qtOxsVq.jpg

this brings up the question, is there a problem with discrimination against women in the online gaming community? given that almost half of all gamers are female i'd like to think not but let's get some thoughts from our resident pardians


People in video games will hate you for pretty much any characteristic imaginable.
There is discrimination against pretty much everything in the gaming community.
It's definitely not a place for sensitive people.
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Mar 12 2017 12:59am
Quote (FroggyG @ Mar 11 2017 11:04pm)
Wish I had more female friends that were real gamers.


If you stop thinking of them as "real" and "fake" gamers you might.
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