Poll: Are gamers hated?

[Normalgamer]

A wise person once told me:
"We (humans) tend to hate what is almost identical to us."

And in my experience, this seems to be the truth (if you look around and start applying it to various historical disputes).

Wow, that actually makes alot of sense, especially about religious wars.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Not hated, but... mocked. Like this http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AcceptableTargets

 

[sean.A7x]

Most people play games I don't know where all you live but everyone i know plays games alot most my friends play it more than me =D And me or them aren't what i call geeks (they go out, play football etc aswell)

The geeks i know don't really play games to much yet my friends, the popular people who play football and go out aswell do play alot although its mainly cod

 

[Andantil]

No, not at all.
I think the popular target of hate right now is Americans.

 

[Ultress]

I don't think I've meet anyone who hated gamers but more looked down upon them as man-children who need to learn to grow up.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

gamer people are not hated at all, there is a certain demograph of people that tend to play games because of their anti-social and ignorance, those are the ppl that are hated, if anything i am friends with everyone from every possible stereotype and no one seems to ever hate or dislike that i play games, they either respect it or they play with

 

[VanityGirl]

No, but they are becoming as over sensitive and whiney victims as scientologist.

^Haha


Well, I wouldn't say all gamers are hated. Maybe it depends on how a gamer acts when they're out socializing?
I've been mistaken as a party girl, but usually not a gamer. Even in gamestop people ask if I'm looking for something for my boyfriend.


I think there's a sterotype that gamers are generally weird, but that's a sterotype. Not everyone believes it anyway.

 

[nick_knack]

Pretty much every single 30> male I know plays video games to some degree. So no.

 

[Low Key]

I think it's the older generations that don't like "gamers", just like their elders didn't like rock and roll. Soon, we'll all be hating stuff the younger generations like and we won't even know we're being hypocritical.

I think as we age, we lose site of how idiotic we really are/were. I'm sure no one on here thinks what they do on a day to day basis is stupid, and I'm sure our parents didn't think so either, but sometimes it is and we just don't see it. Not that gaming is stupid, but the things we do as adolescents I mean, and with that comes the association with one another.

 

[Weaver]

I'd say I'm a gamer yet I hate a good deal of gamers.

Like this fat high school kid I saw on the bus screaming to his friend about everything in world of warcraft. Saying how "EPIC!!!!!" everything was. "A bunny riding a mammoth! LOLLLLLLLL EPIC! THAT WOULD BE SOOOOOOO EPICLY FUNNYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!". Imagine that said by a fat, greasy kid as he excitedly bounces up and down, the flab on his cheeks jiggling with the pulsing of his gelatinous body. Completely unaware of the food spilled on his coat and emitting a potent stench. His hair, unkempt, unwashed, long, disgusting. But above all else, LOUD. Fuck was this kid loud, I wanted to knock his teeth in.