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CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoWomen just don’t thrive on competition the way we do. They will absolutely nerd out on most other shit though, anything from Pokemon party builds to Fallout lore to puzzles.
The only other girl filter I’ve seen besides competition is the hardcore autistic stuff like logistics and simulators; not nearly as many women playing Factorio, Mudrunner, Elite, etc… They’re out there though, and there are exceptions like Wurm Online that attract more women than you would otherwise expect.
I really am not sure that’s true. I think that has more to do with socialization than one actually being more competitive. I am supposedly a guy and I rarely feel that competitive over stuff like gaming, and that’s despite having anger issues for a good portion of my life.
As someone else said misogyny tends to push women away from these communities as well.
Yeah, I can agree with that. My wife likes playing smash bros with me and my friends, but she’s nowhere near the levels of me and my two buddies who are really good. She’s getting there slowly tho.
the hardcore autistic stuff
But that’s the stuff that’s fun! A good game is a game I have a spreadsheet for.
I’ve seen the statistics about how many women play video games but, as you say, most if them aren’t playing the same games we are. A couple of women I dated in the past wanted to try playing video games with me because they were interested in sharing my hobbies, but they were so bad at the games I liked and the games they wanted to play were so casual. I knew I was being an asshole but I still refused to keep playing with them. It was just too frustrating.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a girl, my experience is even the particularly competitive women basically get harassed out of competitive gaming. My exes and I used to play overwatch together and I have an all female friend group that sometimes plays valorant together and yeah the misogyny has guaranteed we all stay casuals.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean everyone gets harassed by the small amount of shitheads online. I used to get death threats at least once a day in World of Tanks. People would pick whatever they thought would offend me, throwing racial epithets, ableist terms… Name it, I got it. That’s how shitheads work: they throw stuff at you, see what sticks, and start digging where they see the marks.