Questions for a female gamer

[Kosheh]

sorry for quoting the smallest part of your post but

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you know, maybe I'm just being Opinions: The Movie, but my venting in my first post kinda stemmed from the fact that the internet seems more

well, generally accepting thanks to social media and outlets like tumblr.


i now read my post and realize it's "oh, this is what i think, a 27 year old distinguished male with years of life experience" and then i realize

there are 18-year-olds practically raised on xbox live that still manages to be caught up in the shitstorm that's misogyny, and i'm turning a blind eye to it...

despite the fact that i'm cool and wished my opinion would resonate over the land and turn the internet into one hip, happenin' place where no one holds prejudice
that's simply not true. misogyny in the gaming community is still an issue in 2014, and it's very real (and possibly worse than it was previously. thanks, xbox and bad parenting)




man, i feel unimportant.
thanks pz for pointing out the realities of this shit internet
(shiternet)




I think what I meant to express in my original post was that from my experience at cons, i feel as if (keywords: feel as if, ymmv) most con-goers nowadays share the views of the brighter side of the internet (you know, the side that lives on tumblr and loves homestuck and korean pop), and you've got far, FAR less of the 4chan hivemind nowadays (the only mindset that would heckle at this panel), so i felt like a panel on girls who play games is just kinda...really pandering, if anything and feeds into the latter mindset.

with that said, i don't know - i feel like i'd present both sides of the coin - how prejudice against female players playing videogames sucks and how at the same time, guys think a girl who plays games HE enjoys is like, a pinnacle of divine sexiness

and how these both suck, as the latter - gadzooks! - is actually still considered prejudice.

it really depends on how you want to spin it imo, as it's not really clear who the intended audience is.
like, if it was a con tailored primarily to gaming with a large attendance (i.e. MAGFest) you might approach the panel differently as opposed to like, a small-town con which most of the attendees are tumblrites