I don't know, for me that feels all a bit much like living in some anime high school comedy. I don't have rivals - there will always be other people who are better at stuff than me, but that doesn't make me any less than I am. I'm certainly not competing for men - I'm married!Crazycat690 said:I'd also like to add that you as a girl might find this annoying because... well how do I say this without making you and everyone else hate me... Because they become your rivals, so yes I'd also say you find them annoying because they are your competition (that is if you are also a gamer girl). People easily get jealous of many things, this could be one. Doesn't have to though, I mean I like to paint and make art, then there's a girl who also paints, and she advertise it every chance she gets and I find that also very annoying. I'd guess that's because she's a competitor in a similar interest.
Well it was simply a sleepy hypothesis, besides, even though you're married doesn't mean you might still compete for attention. I mean, no matter how innocent and in love with your man you might be, attention from the other gender is always wantedms_sunlight said:I don't know, for me that feels all a bit much like living in some anime high school comedy. I don't have rivals - there will always be other people who are better at stuff than me, but that doesn't make me any less than I am. I'm certainly not competing for men - I'm married!Crazycat690 said:I'd also like to add that you as a girl might find this annoying because... well how do I say this without making you and everyone else hate me... Because they become your rivals, so yes I'd also say you find them annoying because they are your competition (that is if you are also a gamer girl). People easily get jealous of many things, this could be one. Doesn't have to though, I mean I like to paint and make art, then there's a girl who also paints, and she advertise it every chance she gets and I find that also very annoying. I'd guess that's because she's a competitor in a similar interest.
Oh yes. Yes-yes-yes. Gamers are massive pricks, about 87% of the time. As a bi-sexual My Little Pony fan, with a username/avatar that shows my Pony "worship," I'm often kicked the second my team starts to lose, despite me often having the highest score on the team. And as far as the original post goes, yes, girls who expect me to treat them differently often end up pulling the sexism card and trying to kick me, because I could not give less of a shit. From other posts, most men do seem to find female gamers attractive because they game, and I might merely not give a shit about that due to my bi-sexuality, but I really find it annoying. (Having re-read that, it really seems like I'm going on about my bi-sexuality in much the same way they do... I'm not trying to.)museofdoom said:I honestly haven't renewed my Xbox live account in ages because it's almost not worth it. Guys will either hit on me shamelessly, or they're asses. I once got booted from a game of scavenge in Left 4 dead 2 because of my gender. My team was losing, and they instantly booted me. What. The. Hell. And I wasn't doing horribly either, I was contributing more than some of the other players. I dislike people sometimes.
You should've just said, "Are you suggesting that girls can't be morons?" xDSansha said:I've seen a fair amount of females who milk it. Some are shameless 'Yeah I'm a girl so what?', and it just irritates me.
A while ago there was some lunatic spouting nonsense on chat in TF2, so I said "Would you please just shut up, moron." and they replied with "You'd call a girl a moron? Wow." to which I replied,
"I don't care what gender you are, if you act like a moron I'm going to call you out for it. Moron, be the fuck quiet."
And every time it's revealed there's a girl on a server, it hits like a plague of stupidity in men. I hate it.
I know it sucks, but for the peace of all please keep your genders to yourselves, and if you have to please just act like a person, not a girl.
The solution to that is to start playing games with learning curves build like complete overhangs (Dwarf Fortress, ARMA II, X3) whip it out as your geek card and challenge them to either compete with your achievements.Hipster Chick said:As a girl, I'm told on a regular basis that I'm "not a real gamer" and never will be one because I'm in possession of a vagina. Hence, I tend to do quite a bit of posturing in an effort to gain respect that I know I'm never actually going to get because of the rampant vein of misogyny running through the geek subculture.
Why do you expect girls do this just for guys attention?museofdoom said:Has anyone else ever noticed how many girls lately seem to think they're a "special snowflake" just because they play video games? It's really prevalent on Facebook especially. Statuses like "Yes I'm a girl, and yes I play video games <3". Or "lol I'm such a nerd, playin COD text ittt." Seriously, do they expect guys to just jump all over them like the fact that they play video games makes them hot suddenly? I'm not a guy though, so I guess that's why I'm posting this. Thoughts?
Rather. Honestly everyone, what are you going to get through an xbox?museofdoom said:This is true. I run into guys on xbox live who instantly send me friend requests and start hitting on me. It's pretty ridiculous haha.JET1971 said:I think its an attention deficit issue. You still have guys who are "OMG! yer a girl and you are playing video games!!!!".
I have yet to see someone point out in the same sentence that they're male and like video games.Treblaine said:Why do you expect girls do this just for guys attention?museofdoom said:Has anyone else ever noticed how many girls lately seem to think they're a "special snowflake" just because they play video games? It's really prevalent on Facebook especially. Statuses like "Yes I'm a girl, and yes I play video games <3". Or "lol I'm such a nerd, playin COD text ittt." Seriously, do they expect guys to just jump all over them like the fact that they play video games makes them hot suddenly? I'm not a guy though, so I guess that's why I'm posting this. Thoughts?
Why are women judged by everything they say? Maybe they are just glad in and of itself of being a gamer/nerd whatever and/or perhaps want to challenge the impression that "video games are for boys". We all do it, we ALL make assumptions on peoples gender by their interests.
I don't care if you are a woman. People can be sexist towards their own gender and you are unfairly judging women by reasonable and normal comments.
This is not a "syndrome" any more than "boy gamer" is a syndrome. This is a simple commentary.