[ NSFW ] Sexual Harassment in Gaming - Jena Friedman | adult swim

Like this and worse, for every woman you've ever known. Your mother, your sisters, your friends, your girlfriend, your wife. They've been forced to accept it because the punishment for disobedience used to be very harsh. This, and all the things other commenters complain about as "cry babies", "sjw", "pc" and such, is women "not having it". This is them saying "enough, stop, you've done this for generations and now we're equal enough that we can finally tell you to stop without being fired, beaten, abused, silenced, raped, killed for it."

So yeah. Raw indeed.

This isn't a new world where we suddenly aren't allowed to treat women any way we want to, were we suddenly have to watch our language and consider the way our words impacts others. This is the same world it's always been. They've never liked it or wanted it or accepted it, it has never ever been acceptable or right to do, but women just didn't use to be able to say no, stop, enough.

Now they can. And people complain that they suddenly have to behave like decent human beings.

Indeed, that's just disrespectful towards real victims of harassment.
If you are playing an online game and you are not getting flamed\insulted\threatened you are probably playing against bots...

And everything seems to revolve around dick and balls, which, let's be honest, in the big scheme of things, life and the universe, really don't amount to much. It's just living tissue, guys, don't make such a big deal out of it.

You played a lot of PAYDAY 2...
Imagine everytime you use the voicechat to plan the heist, to give a call or something at least one other player of your squat would start

"oh, a grill, we could stop right now" or "wow a grill, send nudes" or "do you have a boyfriend" or stuff like that...
And if nobody starts you would get messages after the game like "wow not bad for a game, do you have pictures?" or "you fcking cnt, stop playing games and go into the kitchen" or someone would just send you a picture of a dick....

This is more or less normal in multiplayergames. In the realworld you would not have to deal with so much shit because you can react. In the internet, you become "the problem" when you rise your voice as a female gamer.

It kind of sounds like you're saying, "well, if you don't want to be raped and harassed, you shouldn't be playing video games," and "if someone is saying awful things to you, just don't listen to it," and that seems the wrong attitude to take.

We need to expect a better level of behaviour from gamers, and the only way to change things and make things better is to make "a fuzz" as you put it - to shine a light on the behaviour of the toxic, vocal minority, and say that the majority of gamers that are nice people will no longer tolerate such toxic behavour.

Well if a woman get harassed by her boss would you tell her she can just find another job? You shouldn't have to leave because other people are to immature to treat you with respect and that goes for everyone man or woman.

How you dare to question the inherent marxism!!!!

Wow, I always thought you are male, I mean your avatar pretty much suggests it, but now I'm confused. Your nick is even more alluding in that direction. :D
Aw man, don't ever get fooled by profile pictures. ok, the gender isn't relevant at all but I so much love plot twists

Edit: I'm so dumb, I'm assuming too much, I don't know shit and please excuse my intrusion. :X :D

I hope you continue it as you keep watching

i'll surely do that. maybe not completely, but i'll do that. very glad you're appreciating

its quite something to see people be so uncaring about their privacy on social media then wonder how some rando could know so much about them. ten minutes with a few sparse amounts of info can reveal a lot.

Not all women suffer through pms though.

I don't think there's much of a point to single-ing out female recipients of abuse when it's prevalent for everyone and based on the demographics, they are likely the minority of those affected.

seriously though it all comes down to playing with adult people.
And never give your private information away.

Only very few games require you to be on coms with randoms. and those usually turn out toxic in some way. and if it is a problem don't bloody play those games.

But seriously though fucking play with friends and don't play with randoms and you are fine.

noone thinks it is okay or normal. but if you feel this is too much to handle then you dont go to places like that or right? Its about protecting yourself. you cant just wander in dark alleys where it is known that criminals are there and expect to not get robbed or killed.

No one is saying that all males are evil, or that they don't also experience harassment. Pointing out one wrong thing does not invalidate all other wrong things.

I stopped reading after seeing you continued to refer to women as "females". Seriously?

Whitelisted you for what it's worth, it's always the double standard that when guys get shit thrown at them it's nothing, but against women it becomes harassment - protip: people that insult you don't insult you specifically because you are a woman, but because that's the way to get under your skin.
In my experience from dozens of various games and communities, more often than not, women on the internet get treated much better than the average guy, and get more of positive attention like receiving free stuff for nothing etc.
Also it's hilarious to see one of those "female is bad word" nutjobs in the wild, just wow.

oh my, i've read
"I've been called horse"
and thought ..."well, that's quite good!"

edit: sorry, i mean, i'm sorry for that, but, you know... "'m a dumb man being a dumb man"... that sorta things :P

"Afro-American" hasn't been much of a thing since the mid-70s. I think you're trying for "African-American."

Not that surprising, there's only two genders after all.

people are going to be dickheads to you online

This mouse deserves a beer.

I would just add "and in IRL", but seems you are the kind of mouse who will learn self defense instead staying like a deer in half street

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I agree with that, some people in online games just take advantage of anonymity to rudely get off their nerves, if you're a woman, it's just that the attack angle is very obvious. But if you're a man don't worry they will find something else.

Wait, what game did they promote?

Focusing on one specific field while addressing a problem of a much greater scale is hardly bad though. Especially since gaming is an area that has a lot of sexism apologists (as seen itt)

More importantly, did they succeed getting what they wanted?

Haha, I knew of a guy who used to play as a female username in an RTS game. He was called RedHotBabe or something like that. He was a total parody, yet men used to send him messages trying to get into his pants. He'd write "dances sexily across the world chat in high heels teehee" and stuff like that. The guy was hilarious and we'd see him doing this on a daily basis. Not sure why he wanted to be on the receiving end of disgusting messages, even for the laughs, but whatever floats your boat, I suppose.

I, on the other hand, had a decidedly male name for quite some time. The only reason they found out I was female was via a Ventrillo meeting with the clan leaders in my alliance. It wasn't the clan leaders themselves that were the problem, but they were the ones who spilled the beans while teasing me over my accent. I was clan leader of the top clan on the server. Oh God forbid that a woman could lead a clan in a male-dominated game. Turns out that 6 of the top 10 clans had female leaders. They came out to support me after I was getting verbally attacked in the World Chat. Some of them were my enemies, but they stood with me on it.

People just didn't treat me the same when they found out I was female. I even had to kick someone out of my own clan for saying some really terrible things to me.

Thats not what a Chad would do

unfortunately, I don't disagree. There are a lot of things people think but are afraid to say out loud.