Another new question to all you girl gamers out there...
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We're watching you when you sleep Oo. Know this; female gamers is just one great conspiracy to drive YOU insane! I'm an agent working for the government, don't believe anything anyone says!Daveman said:
Yes. Sometimes. I don't flaunt the fact that I'm a girl, and I don't want people to flirt with me in games because that's not what I'm there for. I wanna be treated like I'm no different from any other gamer, because I'm not any different.
With all that said, it should be clear that I don't draw attention to myself, right? My username doesn't overtly state that I'm female or anything. When I use a mic, I don't talk about stupid stuff. I'm focused and into the game. Yet, sometimes, when I speak, guys just lose it. Either they suddenly start asking me a bunch of questions, or more rarely, they get abusive and vulgar.
There was a guy last week who, immediately after hearing my voice, demanded I add him to my friends list. Throughout the game, every few minutes, he'd ask if I'd added him yet. After the game, he kept asking for personal details (where I live, my real name, etc.) That sort of thing annoys me.
With all that said, it should be clear that I don't draw attention to myself, right? My username doesn't overtly state that I'm female or anything. When I use a mic, I don't talk about stupid stuff. I'm focused and into the game. Yet, sometimes, when I speak, guys just lose it. Either they suddenly start asking me a bunch of questions, or more rarely, they get abusive and vulgar.
There was a guy last week who, immediately after hearing my voice, demanded I add him to my friends list. Throughout the game, every few minutes, he'd ask if I'd added him yet. After the game, he kept asking for personal details (where I live, my real name, etc.) That sort of thing annoys me.
I'm sincerely sorry if this might offend you or piss you off, and I know that this is against the whole 'equality in gaming between genders' subject we have going on here, but it's still a mind-blowing concept to have a person who openly admits to being a porn-star on here. Just...*head exploding*...although if you are the one from I Hit With my Axe that I'm thinking of, you did give me one of my favourite quotes I've heard on this site.Satine Phoenix said:
My friend does always say "It's weird that there are girl playing this" whenever one of the regular females are on the TF2 server I frequent. I then have to remind him YET AGAIN that some of the best gamers in the world are female
I think it's quite the opposite, girl gamers get all the attention as soon as males find out they are female they start hitting on her. Unless, they are, of course, completely rubbish. L4D/L4D2 player here, rarely use mic in a random pub game just to avoid the hassle. Though the ratio of males to females are not quite balanced there are still a few regular female players in the community.
DAOC was the only game I encountered multiple female gamers. Surprisingly, a few of them were actually pretty good. As for misogynistic comments heard, I can't recall any. Though hearing a chic say things like "pwnd", "leet", and other such comments on ts/vent is always amusing and kind of sexy.
Most online gamers are on roughly the same level of life as Dracunculiasis parasites, except marginally less irritating. They're stupid, depraved, arrogant, ill-tempered, emotionally retarded, and fat.
I've seen WoW raids where EVERY SINGLE GUY in a ventrillo chat instantly started making disgusting come-ons to a girl as soon as they heard the voice and realized it was female. More than once.
Now couple that with the natural irritation and idiocy of online multiplayer. For those of you who don't do it, I can summarize it simply with "Grenade of Grenade 4: Grenade! Grenade!".
So all factors considered, is it any wonder why female gamers seem such an anomally?
I've seen WoW raids where EVERY SINGLE GUY in a ventrillo chat instantly started making disgusting come-ons to a girl as soon as they heard the voice and realized it was female. More than once.
Now couple that with the natural irritation and idiocy of online multiplayer. For those of you who don't do it, I can summarize it simply with "Grenade of Grenade 4: Grenade! Grenade!".
So all factors considered, is it any wonder why female gamers seem such an anomally?
I'm very social and chatty when I play and yes, it does happen more than it should.Not G. Ivingname said:
Most of the issues come from young boys (10-14) who shouldn't be playing Gears of War or Call of Duty anyway. I do get the odd strange comment from older males too.
It's either "you're a girl and you suck" or "hey what's up? ;-)" and a friend request, flirty messages and general creepyness.
Generally though I play in parties and chat to people I know who are fine with it. So lately I don't know how bad it is
Maybe it's the game genre, my only real experience is with driving sims. There aren't that many female drivers around, but the ones that are tend to be bloody good, it only takes a couple of laps before flirting gives way to "Incredible lap luv, what's your wing setting?"
hmm. well i'm the worst gamer ever, so i definitely fill the female stereotype quite nicely.
the only abuse i've had has been from my brother, who upon my mentioning that i'd been playing original doom for session said "but... you can't play doom! you're a girl!" twas very funny.
the only abuse i've had has been from my brother, who upon my mentioning that i'd been playing original doom for session said "but... you can't play doom! you're a girl!" twas very funny.
The only real MP game I play is Halo, I know, shun the non-believer... but there seems to be more and more chicks playing which is pretty cool. The ones that flaunt it annoy me though. I don't think I'm really trying to hide that I'm a girl in my gamertag but the ones with pink hearts and barbie dolls are kind of annoying.
I usually let my husband use the mic. He gets made fun of tons though, his tag is Cougar Mangler and he just plays along with it and its really quite funny. That is until he starts singing along with the song from Robot Unicorn Attack all game because he's that drunk.
When I have used it and try and use a cheesy voice it just comes off as an impersonation of Eric Cartman so I use it to my advantage. Good times.
I usually let my husband use the mic. He gets made fun of tons though, his tag is Cougar Mangler and he just plays along with it and its really quite funny. That is until he starts singing along with the song from Robot Unicorn Attack all game because he's that drunk.
When I have used it and try and use a cheesy voice it just comes off as an impersonation of Eric Cartman so I use it to my advantage. Good times.
Bloody good? Female drivers? Was there a mistake there?pierre61 said:Maybe it's the game genre, my only real experience is with driving sims. There aren't that many female drivers around, but the ones that are tend to be bloody good, it only takes a couple of laps before flirting gives way to "Incredible lap luv, what's your wing setting?"
I don't see female gamers much, whether in the virtual world or in real life, but I don't underestimate them.