Studies on Sexism in gaming
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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.