Misogyny in online gaming

[FutureForJames]

Anyone going around declaring their gender without any prompt whatsoever deserves all the sexist comments they get.

Just like females wearing short skirts deserve to be raped by horny men.

[BubbaMKII]

I tried to announce my gender in town:

As you can see the response was lacking.

Because it is the gender that is most prevalent and not very interesting to other boys unless they are gay.
The responses to me revealing my gender are the typical ones, there are no girls on the internet.
Funnily enough i have been online since around 1991 and i had quite a few girls in my programmer class and there were quite some in the systems admins class as well back then.
It is just something the boys are not willing to face it seems but we've been here since forever.
Some of us are actually real like some men are actually nice, attentive and clean.

[dageir]

I tried to announce my gender in town:

As you can see the response was lacking.

Because it is the gender that is most prevalent and not very interesting to other boys unless they are gay.
The responses to me revealing my gender are the typical ones, there are no girls on the internet.
Funnily enough i have been online since around 1991 and i had quite a few girls in my programmer class and there were quite some in the systems admins class as well back then.
It is just something the boys are not willing to face it seems but we've been here since forever.
Some of us are actually real like some men are actually nice, attentive and clean.

???

[FutureForJames]

I tried to announce my gender in town:

As you can see the response was lacking.

Because it is the gender that is most prevalent and not very interesting to other boys unless they are gay.
The responses to me revealing my gender are the typical ones, there are no girls on the internet.
Funnily enough i have been online since around 1991 and i had quite a few girls in my programmer class and there were quite some in the systems admins class as well back then.
It is just something the boys are not willing to face it seems but we've been here since forever.
Some of us are actually real like some men are actually nice, attentive and clean.

Out of interest: if you point out that you are male in a forum dominated by females, would one receive any downgrading treatment?

Edit: Reason I ask is because I have reason to believe that the history of patriarchism is the dominating factor rather than the gender distribution.

[BubbaMKII]

???

Announcing you're a boy to another boy does nothing.

[BubbaMKII]

I tried to announce my gender in town:

As you can see the response was lacking.

Because it is the gender that is most prevalent and not very interesting to other boys unless they are gay.
The responses to me revealing my gender are the typical ones, there are no girls on the internet.
Funnily enough i have been online since around 1991 and i had quite a few girls in my programmer class and there were quite some in the systems admins class as well back then.
It is just something the boys are not willing to face it seems but we've been here since forever.
Some of us are actually real like some men are actually nice, attentive and clean.

Out of interest: if you point out that you are male in a forum dominated by females, would one receive any downgrading treatment?

Edit: Reason I ask is because I have reason to believe that the history of patriarchism is the dominating factor rather than the gender distribution.

From my experience, not really.
You will probably get some kind of reaction to that revelation but not demeaning per sé.
It also depends on why said male is there in the first place and it may result in praise for looking into female subjects even.

I agree with your last sentence.

[Potjeh]

Bringing up inane facts randomly is a habit of annoying people.

[Mereni]

Bringing up inane facts randomly is a habit of annoying people.

Being female is inane?

I'm pretty sure if everyone assumed people on the internet were women, plenty of men would speak up when constantly referred to as 'she' that that is incorrect.

[Potjeh]

As I said, that wouldn't be unprompted.

[ysbryd]

Hmm.. not sure about that.
Hear me out before you jump on my theory.
I think modern man has lost his place in society, his breadwinner, bring home the food thing, that was always the male role, has been encroached upon by women. (rightly so, btw) so I think that men are struggling a little to find out what being a 'man' is.
The majority of trolls in this respect are very young boys, who are influenced by what they see in the movies, and yes online games. No I'm not saying that games are the reason that people go out and kill etc, just that, until they grow a little, that is the stereotype that is fed them, that its cool to be misogynistic, that women are objects etc etc, its part of growing up and finding out your sexuality. But in a world where on the one hand you have 'new age man' and 'metrosexuals' and the other the ideology of the war game, killing and brutality, I feel a little sorry for young boys growing up in this age. Doesnt surprise me that some get confused as to how to treat women, and what behaviour is 'cool'.
Most of them grow out of it however, usually by about 17 or 18, and discover that wow, women are people..
But basically, its usually just a phase that they grow out of, much like any toddler in kindergarten, the thing to do is ignore it until they grow up, unless it is an actual danger to the woman involved.
Thats not to excuse the behaviour, its crass, adolescent and frankly pathetic, and usually used by people who feel threatened in some way, but I tend to think of it as more of an annoyance than anything else.