That’s sad. At our LAN there were two women regularly. One lost interest in PC games and the other now comes with her friend. She’s pretty good at Chivalry. What a bloodthirsty girl…
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Guy chiming in. I use to go to small, monthly lan parties a lot. Every now and then a woman show up and 4 or 5 of the average 10 total guys would make weird jokes about there being a female present. I don’t think I ever saw the same woman twice.
joe_cool@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s was weird. Growing up, I took the “girls don’t play video games” attitude as self deprecating machismo. Finding out that, no, this was how many people, including many girls my age, though was… disappointing.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
Men and females
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Read it again. This self-proclaimed man uses ‘women’ to describe some people, and also uses ‘females’ for how some other people describe them.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m not mocking the commenter.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not sure your point. I used both “woman” and “female” in my comment. I used the term “female” specifically when I did to reinforce the idea that certain people in the group saw the women more as foreign objects the new people.
I don’t hang out with those people and if you asked me if I stepped in to do anything about that weirdness, I wouldn’t have because it would have been a loss cause. I hang out with better groups now a days.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m not mocking you. I’m mocking the people you’re talking about.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wahmen and Femoids.