Studies on Sexism in gaming
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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.