Well, MMORPGs are a little more egalitarian with their PvP since you can play in a healing, support, or crowd control role which is also why you're less likely to be called a fag in World of Warcraft than in Modern Warfare 3. I expect that a few of your guildmates play DPS though, and I say that when they do that they are expressing their masculine side. Nearly everyone is a mixture of masculine and feminine qualities.Farseer Lolotea said:Amusingly enough, some of the most eager PvPers in my guild are rather "girlie." But I digress.Iron Lightning said:The drive to compete and competitive multiplayer are masculine things. Thus people will revel any form of femininity that arises in those situations.
Of course you would, because in my hypothetical example the complainer would be exhibiting the feminine qualities of sensitivity and anti-competitiveness which is inappropriate in such a context.Farseer Lolotea said:If I was the one who'd killed them, I'd probably say "you lost; get over it" and leave it at that.If you were playing a rousing game of Halo and someone started complaining because they got killed in a fair fight would you not be annoyed?
I'd be a lot more annoyed at someone who tried to tip the scales in their direction, lost, and whined about it. Or who was on a team, fucked up, and blamed everyone else.
Could be, but it seems just a bit too widespread for that to be entirely the case.[/quote]I'm not certain that you are so lucky. Obviously those women who share your status of not being routinely harassed would not be very vocal in proclaiming such. With that in mind, consider the possibility that a vocal minority of rightly outraged women have made their plight seem much more commonplace than it actual is.
That's definitely believable. However, I should state that we ought not care so much about the sexist assholes who happen to play videogames. This problem seems to me to be mostly unsolvable. You can't fix stupid.
The bigger issue is the still widespread but thankfully decreasing trend of objectifying women. I wouldn't say that the medium shouldn't have any smut, though, in fact I think the best way to solve this issue is to have more smut. If we were to become more open-minded about porn games then we could channel all this sexual energy away from where it's inappropriate.