I’m just going to point out that gamers who actually are the stereotype of a sexist shitheel gamer who ostracizes girls from their community and then, when a girl says something witty and sassy and are acknowledged as clever by others, get threatened, then backpedal around to blame the culture as being THE FAULT of the girl basically not knowing her place and keeping quiet in their precious all-boys-only community are literally the most annoying thing ever.



Except to gamers who are that stereotype :S



I’m PREEEEEEEEEEETTY sure that at least since the dawn of time, girls have been a sizeable portion of people on the planet, and that select half of the population has had to struggle to be accepted in the other half of the population’s work, hobbies, and general life situations and have been shot down in this exact way for thousands of years. There’ll always be people who think there is actually some sizeable amount of people who think they’re “special” for doing “boy” things or “girl” things (and aren’t just awkward teenagers who actually are huge tryhards), but it’s actually not that many and it’s a distraction from actually confronting why you think it’s wrong for someone to want to be in that situation in the first place, to want to do something or like something despite the backlash. Surely, it must be for that sweet, sweet attention. It certainly can’t be because shit, they fucking enjoy what they do and you’re the one that has to move on from imagining that they’re a real problem, not YOU.

I don’t insult the gaming community “all the time,” only when they deserve it. The gaming community, however, is very often insulted by me for simply just existing in it.



Oh and sexy girl gamers MAY have something to do with the media encouraging women to self-objectify*, and gaming media in particular providing the example that the only place a woman should be is on a billboard in her bra advertising a game, certainly not playing the games or being a protagonist, jussaying.



*Also gonna pre-emptively say here that self-objectification is not necessarily bad and people can self-objectify if they want. America. Freedom. etc. Don’t want people to get distracted and yell at me over that one thing and ignore the main point of the shit I wrote, because I don’t intend it to read that way.