colesie wrote:I feel like it'd be similar to reading articles on the Westboro Baptist Church's homepage lol
Probably not.
The other thing to remember is that us guys are trying to be "safe"... you know those rules of online chat and stuff about not knowing who's on the other end? "There's no such thing as girls online." "GIRL--Guy In Real Life" "If they say they're a woman, it's probably a man. If they say they're under 18, it's probably a fed." (Applies because there are those here that are of the age where that wouldn't be creepy.)
But as for those 3 statements in the OP:
1. I'll agree with this wholeheartedly. The problem is the "spirit" of competition without any of the normal things that would encourage us to behave somewhat civilly. There's also the problem that few people truly understand or otherwise care about sportsmanship or sportsmanlike conduct. We'll not go into the finer points of just general etiquette.
2. You need to check your numbers and do a bit of research. The numbers have flopped. 10 years ago, that might have been true (I doubt it was true then, but don't know any numbers to really make any statements), but now the average gamer is 23-35 and is nearly as likely to be female as male. (I've met more than a few women that act like men online to avoid the issues of stating their sex.) One statistic I ran across recently suggested less than a third of boys 13-18 spend more than a few hours a week on games and a good percentage don't play at all. School, sports, and other activities take up too much time. I really don't know what the accuracy of those numbers were, so they could have been made up, but they jive with what other numbers I've seen the last few years that were accurate and scientific. That the numbers have changed like this make these issues even sadder. Staying stuck behind a computer screen acting immaturely isn't going to change things, either.
3. This is just as stupid. Just goes to show you some boys never really grow up past 10 years old.
