I'm on a few gaming groups on facebook (this is also based on personal experience as well) and I've noticed an increase of many women complaining about the negative and unwanted attention they get from playing an online game such as Overwatch or COD.
I would play Halo 3 online, and this is one of the main reasons why I don't use a microphone online anymore; Someone literally on my own team, which we were winning, decided to make the comment "any girls that game are fat and ugly" I mean, I am living up the chub life but it was my first encounter with someone on VC who was rude. I was like 14, 15 years old so of course I didn't pay any mind to it or care.
You'd think since then, that people would evolve. Many girls/women play games now, even more-so than before. But the community is still sexist misogynist pigs towards the female-gaming community its so atrocious and disgusting. You can't be a girl and game without either begging for attention, or just being ugly. There's no in between... of course, not everyone is like this and I would never say everyone is like this; however the vast majority of the gaming community (which are male) think this way.
(For an example from personal experience) Lets say our team in Overwatch for an example is losing, yet, I'm on the point; pushing; Gold Medals in everything(including payload time), yet my team keeps dying so that means that we aren't getting anywhere, and we lose? Want to know who they blame....me; simply because I'm a girl. I had a time where I was Widowmaker picking off everyone on the payload, defending of course. I died maybe once or twice because I had to jump on the payload to stall until my team arrived... I had this one guy who switched to Winston, consistently jump on the payload by himself with no other support aside from the Widowmaker sniping people off of the point. No Mercy to heal him, No Tracer for a distraction, just him and I.
I was in voice chat at the time, not talking, but listening. He was getting infuriated that /I/ was the reason why he was dying, that /I/ had bad choices. You know what...I got fed up with it, got on the mic, and went "Widowmaker was a bad choice? it wasn't my fault you would jump on the point with no help and die the entire time. I'm sitting here, 14-2, all gold medals, picking off each one of them to help support the point." He never directly responded to me, just said, "Of course its a girl, they're playing Widowmaker" and to which I replied "yeah, and I'm not a shitty player like you" and then they left.
When I'm playing comp with my friends, I'm always the person they message with rage messages all the time as if I'm not going to have a comeback to any of it because I'm a girl.
Any time I would join VC, on Call of Duty, the reactions I would get are guys telling me for me to hit puberty because a girl would never be good at call of duty...right?
Its disgusting how (most) of the male culture acts towards women who play video games. I've seen screenshots of women getting messages saying "you're lucky I even let a girl play on my team" (which makes no sense because they didn't have that option to begin with). Or people hitting on them asking for their phone number (which I've got more than once)
It's asinine that it is 2017 and men do not know how to act when a girl/woman plays an online FPS game. People complain to me all the time that I'm never in VC when I play Overwatch competitive and honestly, thats the reason why; because I'm just going to get blamed for the reason why we lose (if we do), or I'm going to get sexist misogynist remarks towards me and its irritating.
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