Studies on Sexism in gaming
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Lead guilds for 15 years and #1 source of drama and issues involves girl members. Usually girls rile everyone up and cause people to pick sides.
I used to be in a guild for Runescape, I remember my friend in our group chat on Skype brought in some e-girl he was simping after. She was super self absorbed, loud, annoying, and never contributed anything meaningful to discussions, and she was also hyper sensitive to the slightest bit of criticism or banter/teasing, which would then lead to tone policing from other simps and then tons of infighting.
Yes, exactly this. I remember my guild being sabotaged somewhat before gamergate by an aggressive feminista on a total lie that pretty much everyone believed about one of our officers. Put a bunch of words in his mouth and made up a bunch of shit about him without any proof whatsoever and everyone ate it up on the forums even though he came out with screenshots. It didn't matter to the zeitgeist.
Few months later he was vindicated when she started destroying another guild with the same routine - but another girl outed her.
Usually women 40+ playing WoW or something aren't so bad to be around though.
Maybe that's why our guild never had issues. I ran with a World vs World guild in Guild Wars 2 for years and we straight up had a doddering old grandma in our guild along with a bunch of other women and never had any guild drama. Maybe that older female presence from a less psychotic generation was a mitigating influence or something. Honestly it was kind of nice to have some of those girls in the guild just for the raid banter they added. It was a good crew and I miss running with them.
Aye, I've had similar experiences. It's pretty refreshing isn't it? Some of my fondest memories WoW center around 5-manning oldschool raids with a kindly older woman who was essentially my surrogate mom ingame. We did everything together with the usual suspects, the crew so to speak.
Never did anything impure escape that woman. Not a single swear word, no drama, nothing. She put up with my teen angst in a very understanding way which is mind boggling to me now.
Needless to say I think highly of a good handful of woman gamers I've met over the years, but they've almost always been older. They're made of better stuff.
If only they did that more often.
Did my decade of raiding and raid leading PUGs, and I can also say that every single breakup or drama either directly involved girls or guys acting on behalf of their egirls.
I run a 100 member group for a game of mine that I play, and have for 5 years. Completely anonymous so this stuff hasn't caused any issues. Plus it helps too that I have full control over the accounts in it (can delete messages and ban people for any reason) but thankfully do to the anonymous nature nothing crazy has really happened. Although I'm sure if there was voice chat I'd have to be a lot more vigilant to prevent this stuff.
Worked in government public service for over a decade. Had a case where a department I was with was headed by a male who then retired and was replaced with a female. Within six months, she had turned the department into her personal social club, everyone skilled left, and the department got sued a lot for shit she fucked up. She responded to this by... plotting against anyone who said that she fucked up.