Being Gendered Correctly

[Melithea]

It's because other genres, like say RPGs for instance, have more female players. Face it guys, you're the ones in the minority here, and it's only the fact that most of the women you've been playing with haven't bothered to correct you that has allowed you to nurture the illusion that you're still the majority you may have been a few decades ago.

MMOs are still majority male. Women make up ground by dominating in games like The Sims and Farmville, but they still don't touch the male numbers overall. Not that this is something they should be proud of if they did.

[Muzy]

All I can say is I am surprised this is what rubs people the wrong way now a days.

This pretty much covers it all...

[Versiroth]

You have a lot to learn about life and people in general.

Right back at you. Expecting the world to pander to your every insecurity shows that you have absolutely no clue how the world works. People don't owe you anything.

[Slatervonjager]

As it's been stated, thanks to 4chan, everyone on the internet is male unless proven other wise. If You don't want your feelings hurt by people incorrectly referring to you as one gender or the other, then you should pretty much just stay off the internet. i know it sounds dickish to say that, but getting you're feeling hurt over something so common is rather ridiculous. And to be honest, with how stupid the younger generation of males is, and the way they treat women, is it better to be told to "get in the kitchen" over and over, or be called he by mistake?

MMOs are still majority male. Women make up ground by dominating in games like The Sims and Farmville, but they still don't touch the male numbers overall. Not that this is something they should be proud of it they did.

FYI, you're facts are rather wrong. Studies were done that show over 40% dedicated video game players(this means games like CoD, LoL, MMOs, non facebook/android games) are female. So you wanna think again that the number of women don't touch the number of men.

[Moheeheeko]

Anybody else miss those days when people played videogames to...you know...play videogames?

For years and years people were just avatars on your screen with funny names, not guys or girls, just people.

Then came the dark times, then came the grrl gamers.

Suddenly in every game you played, chat was littered with "hah you got killed by a GIRL, btw im a GIRL don't hit on me silly boys!" while they tried to prove themselves 'better' than male gamers, not that anybody cared to begin with.

things have never been the same.

[Melithea]

FYI, you're facts are rather wrong. Studies were done that show over 40% dedicated video game players(this means games like CoD, LoL, MMOs, non facebook/android games) are female. So you wanna think again that the number of women don't touch the number of men.

60/40 is a landslide victory in anything involving more than ten people, so thank you for proving me right.

[NinjaTaru72]

"The Internet, where men are kids, women are men, and kids are undercover FBI agents."
— Anonymous

[Kimmy_Dee]

I didn't disappear from the thread there's just been nothing to respond to.

Just a bunch of people defending their sexist assumptions about player gender and a small handful pointing out that assuming male by default is shitty.

That's consistently been the content of the thread from page one so what exactly am I supposed to respond to at this point?

[Dhex]

Oh boo hoo.

[Skivvy]

I didn't disappear from the thread there's just been nothing to respond to.

Just a bunch of people defending their sexist assumptions about player gender and a small handful pointing out that assuming male by default is shitty.

That's consistently been the content of the thread from page one so what exactly am I supposed to respond to at this point?

lol, what? Because people aren't as hypersensitive about it as you are, we're now sexist?